![]() ![]() The women she writes about managed to carve out niches in the boys’ club that is the American comics industry - an achievement she shares with them. Later, she became the premier historian of female comics creators, penning one prose book after another on the topic. On top of that, in its first issue, she wrote and drew a short story called “Sandy Comes Out,” which starred the first extant lesbian comic-book character outside of pornography. Just two years later, she helped launch the longest-running comics series created and edited entirely by women, Wimmen’s Comix. “It’s the fucking first.”Īnd that comic wasn’t the only instance in which Robbins helped shape the development of comic books and the way we perceive women in them. ![]() “And I stress this because, a couple of times, people have written about me and it’s like they’re hedging their bets, and they say, ‘And she produced one of the first.’ Well, y’know what? It’s not ‘one of the first.’” Her voice dropped down a quarter-octave. “We produced It Ain’t Me Babe Comix, which is the very, very, very first all-woman comic book,” she told an audience at the San Francisco Public Library a few years ago. But she wants you to know exactly where she, and the 1970 comics anthology she spearheaded, fit into history. There have been many comic books with all-female creative teams since the 79-year-old writer-artist-editor came up in the “underground comix” scene of the late 1960s and early ’70s. Don’t mistake Trina Robbins’s gentleness for shyness. ![]()
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