![]() ![]() ![]() The one problem was that I couldn’t find any academic scholarship on them to cite or build upon. They reminded me of my grandmothers, and I fell in love with their ridiculous plot lines, so I decided to devote my last year at UC Davis to researching and writing about them. ![]() When I was an undergrad at the University of California, Davis, I didn’t know much about romance comics, but I had stumbled across some by accident when trying to find something to write about for an honors paper at community college. Though many know Trina for these various accomplishments, I discovered her in a different way. A poster advertising Trina’s California Girls from author’s personal collection. ![]() There is no doubt that she helped shape the trajectory of the medium and is an invaluable part of its history. Since then, she’s written, illustrated, and created many other comics. Recognizing that they needed comics that they would enjoy, she created Misty and California Girls in 19, respectively. In the 1980s, she rallied against a comic book industry that pretty much ignored women readers. It Ain’t Me Babe, First Print Run, 1970 Comic from author’s personal collection She produced the first all-women comic, It Ain’t Me Babe (1970), was the first woman to draw a Wonder Woman comic (1986), and was a founding mother of Wimmin’s Comix (1972-1992). A 2017 Will Eisner Award winner for the reprint collection of The Complete Wimmen’s Comix and a 2013 inductee to the Comic Book Hall of Fame, Trina Robbins shouldn’t need an introduction. ![]()
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