In Memoriam Trina Robbins: New Research in the History of Women Cartoonists

With the passing of Trina Robbins (1938-2024) we have lost not only an outstanding artist, writer and editor of comic strips and comic books by, for, and about women, but a prolific historian and curator, author of a dozen books and catalogues on that subject, from Women and the Comics (1985) to Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age (2020). Signing herself just "Trina," Robbins was the most productive of the ardent feminists who contributed to the underground comix movement of the 1960s and 70s, and a founder of the comics anthology Wimmen's Comix which ran from 1972-1992. This session focuses on new scholarship about the struggles and achievements (often forgotten or misunderstood) of women, past and present, in the creation and production of comic strips, comic books and graphic novels.