THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Trina Robbins

August 17, 1938 – April 10, 2024

“I saw the first issue of It Ain’t Me Babe, and I immediately phoned them up and said, ‘Hi, I’m an artist and I want to work with you.’ It was so exciting that there was actually a women’s liberation newspaper! Because I had these women standing beside me for moral support, I was able to do the It Ain’t Me Babe comic—the very first all-women comic book in the world!”

Artist, writer, editor of comics, clothing designer. A historian who specialized in books about female cartoonists. One of the creators of It Ain’t Me Babe, the first comic book made exclusively by women. Co-founded the Wimmen’s Comix collective, 1972. The first woman to draw a full issue of Wonder Woman, and a full run on a Wonder Woman series, 1985. A founder of Friends of Lulu, an advocacy group for female comic-book creators and readers, 1994.