Photo inspired by Jane the comic strip character

Jane

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Jane The wartime comic strip character 

Jane comic strip character
Inspired by the wartime cartoon figure of Jane whose clothes always seemed to miraculously fall off

The comic strip character Jane appeared in the Daily Mirror from 1932 to 1959 and was created and drawn by Norman Pett. Initially Pett’s wife modelled for the character and she appeared in single pictures It was not until 1940 when Christabel Leighton-Porter became the model for Jane and, to quote Norman Pett, ‘she began to appear as a strip and to strip,’ that she became popular.

Although Jane’s misadventures often culminated in her losing her clothes it was not until 1944 when she first appeared nude. The effect on British troops was such that Winston Churchill suggested that Jane was ‘Britain’s secret weapon’. 

Christabel Leighton-Porter the model for Jane comic strip character
Christabel Leighton-Porter
Source ‘Another Jane’s Journal’ by Pett
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