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Secession: She Draws Comics
Since the sixties, the cartoonist and pop historian Trina Robbins has been a central figure in the women's comics scene in the US. She plays numerous roles: artist, producer, active networker and, in recent years, also a chronicler of the women's comics movement. The exhibition that she has put together for the Secession, She Draws Comics, displays the diversity of women's comics production in the USA with a broad selection of both historical and contemporary original drawings, comics and zines.
40 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2002
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Trina Robbins
255Ìýbooks82ÌýfollowersTrina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Her first comics were printed in the East Village Other. She later joined the staff of a feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe, with whom she produced the first all-woman comic book titled It Ain't Me Babe. She became increasingly involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists, through projects such as the comics anthology Wimmen's Comix. She was also the penciller on Wonder Woman for a time in the '80s.
Trina has worked on an adaptation of Sax Rohmer's Dope for Eclipse Comics and GoGirl with artist Anne Timmons for Image Comics.
Trina designed Vampirella's costume for Forrest Ackerman and Jim Warren.
In addition to her comics work, Robbins is an author of non-fiction books, including several with an emphasis on the history of women in cartooning.
She is the first of the three "Ladies of the Canyon" in Joni Mitchell's classic song from the album of the same name.
Trina Robbins won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A., a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow.
Trina has worked on an adaptation of Sax Rohmer's Dope for Eclipse Comics and GoGirl with artist Anne Timmons for Image Comics.
Trina designed Vampirella's costume for Forrest Ackerman and Jim Warren.
In addition to her comics work, Robbins is an author of non-fiction books, including several with an emphasis on the history of women in cartooning.
She is the first of the three "Ladies of the Canyon" in Joni Mitchell's classic song from the album of the same name.
Trina Robbins won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A., a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow.
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March 4, 2020
Trina Robbins* -editor+contributor- and 27 other woman are represented in this exhibition that was put together for Secession, She Draws Comics. It well displays the diversity of women's comics production in the USA with a broad selection of both historical and contemporary original drawings, comics and zines.
Exhibited 25. 4.-23. 6. 2002
English is the second language throughout the front and back of the book- after Dutch and before German
*see book description
Exhibited 25. 4.-23. 6. 2002
English is the second language throughout the front and back of the book- after Dutch and before German
*see book description
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