Trina Robbins

Trina Robbins (2010)

Trina Robbins (born August 17, 1938 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American comix artist. She was an early pioneer of underground comics and one of the few women in the comic business at the time. In addition to comics, Trina Robbins has also written non-fiction books.

Career

Trina Robbins' first illustrations were featured in science fiction fanzines such as Habakkuk in New York. The first comics for the New York underground newspaper East Village Other followed in the late 1960s. To work for East Village Other , she moved from Los Angeles to New York in 1966, where she worked for the magazine for several years. She took care of advertising, drew and posed for the November 1966 issue as "Slum Goddess". She earned her living mainly from selling self-sewn clothes. In 1967 she met Art Spiegelman , who introduced her to Woody Gelman . She designed several stickers for him. In 1969 she was involved in the development of the character Vampirella and created the tight costume of the female vampire. In 1970 she left New York and moved to San Francisco , where she participated in the first feminist comic book It Ain´t Me, Babe , which contained comics by Trina and six other cartoonists. She began to look for and work with other women in the comic scene.

Two years later she published with Terry Richards , Lee Marrs and others Wimmen's Comix , a magazine in which only women published comics. The responsibility for the edition was on a rotation principle with two draftsmen, who were supported by the others. The work was understood as a collective. There was a longer pause after issue 7 and it wasn't until the 1980s that the magazine was revived. The title was changed to Wimmin's Comix . After issue 17, the magazine was discontinued in 1991.

In 1974 she drew for the Comix Book series for Marvel Comics . Her book Woman and Comics was published in 1983 and shortly afterwards a Wonder Woman mini-series of her was published by DC Comics . Since the late 1990s she has written other books on the subject of "Women and Comics". She also worked on an adaptation of Sax Rohmers Dope for Eclipse Comics and GoGirl with Anne Timmons for Image Comics .

Awards

Trina Robbins received a 1989 San Diego Comic Con award for Strip AIDS USA , which was made in collaboration with Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow .

Albums

In 1977 Volksverlag published a U-Comix special volume (No. 13) with her work.

Trivia

Trina Robbins belonged to Joni Mitchell's circle of friends around 1970 , whom she portrayed in the title song of her album Ladies of the Canyon .

Non-fiction

• Women and the Comics by Catherine Yronwode and Trina Robbins (Eclipse, 1983) ISBN 0-913035-01-7
• A Century of Women Cartoonists (Kitchen Sink, 1993) ISBN 0-87816-206-2
• The Great Women Superheroes (Kitchen Sink, 1997) ISBN 0-87816-482-0
• From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines (Chronicle, 1999) ISBN 0-8118-2199-4
• The Great Women Cartoonists (Watson-Guptill, 2001) ISBN 0-8230-2170-X
• Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century (McFarland & Co., 2001) ISBN 0-7864-1151-1
• Eternally Bad: Goddesses with Attitude ( Conari Press , 2001) ISBN 1-57324-550-X
• Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill (Conari Press, 2003) ISBN 1-57324-821-5
• Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens (Conari Press, 2004) ISBN 1-57324-952-1
• The Brinkley Girls ( Fantagraphics Books , 2009) ISBN 978-1-56097-970-8
• Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (Hampton Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1-57273-947-5

Web links

• Homepage
• Trina Robbins' blog
• Trina Robbins at lambiek.net

swell

• Andreas C. Knigge: Comic lexicon . Ullstein 1988, p. 175. ISBN 3-548-36554-X .
• Patrick Rosenkranz: Rebel Visions. The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 . Fantagraphics Books 2002. p. 223. ISBN 1-56097-464-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ [1] Stiles, Steve . " Habakkuk Remembered." Vojo de Vivo # 2, 2001; p. 20 (PDF; 2.6 MB)