[1] At the start, the panel was drawn by notable illustrator Hays, who employed an Art Deco style.

Through many films and the works of illustrators such as Hays, John Held Jr., and Russell Patterson, as well as the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos, flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless and independent.

"[3][4] Focus shifted from Fanny, now a curly-haired brunette resembling Parker herself,[5] to her little sister Betty, a schoolgirl.

[6] Despite this immediate success, Hays—finding the daily workload too heavy after the birth of her second child—turned Flapper Fanny Says over to promising newcomer Gladys Parker starting on March 21, 1930.

[1] Parker expanded the daily panel into a Sunday strip with the truncated title Flapper Fanny starting August 7, 1932, and continued both until December 8, 1935.