Robbins, Trina
Entry updated 13 October 2025. Tagged: Artist, Author, Comics, Editor.
(1938-2024) US clothes designer, Comics illustrator and writer, editor, journalist and author, much of whose work in comics was for titles – from the early one-shot It Ain't Me Babe (1970), which she co-created – produced exclusively by women (see Feminism). Her responsibility for a full issue of Wonder Woman in 1985, the first time a woman did this comic, was also a significant marker. She was involved in sf Fandom from an early age, publishing artwork in various Fanzines. Her work showed an amused but intimate knowledge of the field, though she wrote relatively little prose sf. Her various surveys of the comics scene, with an emphasis on women as creators and as fictional Icons, beginning with The Great Women Superheroes (1996), are incisive. [JC]
further awards or honours: Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
see also: Miss Fury; Warren Publishing.
Trina Robbins
born New York: 17 August 1938
died San Francisco, California: 10 April 2024
works (selected)
- The Great Women Superheroes (Northampton, Massachusetts: Kitchen Sink Press, 1996) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Eternally Bad: Goddesses with Attitude (York Beach, Maine: Conari Press, 2001) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill (York Beach, Maine: Conari Press, 2003) [nonfiction: pb/Leslie Cabarga]
- Wild Irish Roses: Brigits, Kathleens and Warrior Queens (York Beach, Maine: Conari Press, 2004) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 (Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books, 2013) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Last Girl Standing (Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books, 2017) [nonfiction: memoir: pb/photographic]
- The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age (Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books, 2020) [hb/]
works as editor
- Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944-1949 (San Diego, California: IDW Publishing, 2011) [graph: in the publisher's Library of American Comics series: Miss Fury: hb/]
- Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1941-1944 (San Diego, California: IDW Publishing, 2013) [graph: in the publisher's Library of American Comics series: Miss Fury: hb/]
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