![]() ![]() In the mid-1980s she wrote and drew Misty for the Marvel Comics children's imprint Star Comics. In the early 1980s, Robbins created adaptations of Sax Rohmer's Dope and Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover. What the hell is funny about rape and murder?" Robbins became increasingly outspoken in her beliefs, criticizing underground comix artist Robert Crumb for the perceived misogyny of many of his comics, saying, "It's weird to me how willing people are to overlook the hideous darkness in Crumb's work . ĭuring this time, Robbins also became a contributor to the San Francisco-based underground paper Good Times, along with art director Harry Driggs and Guy Colwell. ![]() Wimmen's Comix #1 featured Robbins' "Sandy Comes Out", the first-ever comic strip featuring an "out" lesbian. Robbins became involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists, through projects such as the comics anthology Wimmen's Comix, with which she was involved for twenty years. ![]() The same year, she produced the first all-woman comic book, the one-shot It Ain't Me, Babe Comix with fellow female artist Barbara "Willy" Mendes. She left New York for San Francisco in 1970, where she worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe. In 1969, Robbins designed the costume for the Warren Publishing character Vampirella for artist Frank Frazetta in Vampirella #1 (Sept. Robbins' first comics were printed in the East Village Other she also contributed to the spin-off underground comic Gothic Blimp Works. Trina Robbins at a 2010 underground comix art exhibit in San Francisco, California ![]()
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