Trina Robbins
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Trina Robbins is an American
comics
artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix
movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Both as a cartoonist and historian, Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists. With writer Forrest J. Ackerman, she was the artist co-creator of the character Vampirella
.
in the 1950s, and her illustrations appeared in science fiction fanzines such as the Hugo
-nominated
Habakkuk
.
; she also contributed to the spin-off underground comic Gothic Blimp Works
.
In 1970 Robbins left New York for San Francisco, where she worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe. That same year she established the first all-woman comic book
, the one-shot It Ain't Me, Babe Comix. From this period on, Robbins became increasingly 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. Wimmen's Comix #1 featured Robbins' "Sandy Comes Out," the first-ever comic strip featuring an "out" lesbian
.
Robbins was becoming increasingly outspoken in her beliefs, for instance criticizing underground comix pioneer Robert Crumb
for the perceived misogyny of many of his comics. She stated, "It's weird to me how willing people are to overlook the hideous darkness in Crumb's work.... What the hell is funny about rape and murder?" Robbins' lack of regard for R. Crumb reportedly played a part in her falling out with fellow Wimmen's Comix contributor Aline Kominsky (Crumb's girlfriend at the time, now his wife), who, along with fellow Wimmen's Comix contributor Diane Noomin
, left the collective in 1975 to form their own all-female anthology, Twisted Sisters
.
Robbins was artist co-creator of the Warren Publishing
character Vampirella
, designing her costume and hair for writer Forrest J. Ackerman's story "Vampirella of Draculona" in Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969).
In the early 1980s Robbins created adaptations of Sax Rohmer
's Dope and Tanith Lee
's The Silver Metal Lover. In the mid-1980s she wrote and drew Misty for the Marvel Comics
children's imprint Star Comics
. The short-lived series was a reinterpretation of the long-standing character Millie the Model
, now as an older character running her own modeling agency and minding her niece Misty.
Robbins' official involvement with Wonder Woman
, a character she had long admired, began in 1986. At the conclusion of the first volume of the series (in conjunction with the landmark series Crisis on Infinite Earths
), DC Comics
published a four-issue limited series
titled The Legend of Wonder Woman, written by Kurt Busiek
and drawn by Robbins. The series paid homage to the character's Golden Age
roots. In the mid-1990s, Robbins criticized artist Mike Deodato
's "bad girl art
" portrayal of Wonder Woman, calling Deodato's version of the character a "barely clothed hypersexual pinup
." In the late 1990s, Robbins collaborated with Colleen Doran
on the DC Comics
graphic novel Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story, on the subject of spousal abuse.
Recently, Robbins has been writing the comic book adventures of Honey West
, notable as being one of popular fiction's first female private detective.
Her first book, co-written with Catherine Yronwode
, was Women and the Comics, on the history of female comic-strip and comic-book creators. As one of the first book on this subject, its publication was covered in the mainstream press in addition to the fan press. Subsequent Robbins volumes on the history of women in the comics industry include A Century of Women Cartoonists (Kitchen Sink, 1993), The Great Women Superheroes (Kitchen Sink, 1997), From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines (Chronicle, 1999), and The Great Women Cartoonists (Watson-Guptill, 2001)
Robbins was a co-founder of Friends of Lulu
, a nonprofit formed in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry.
's classic song from the album of the same name
.
Robbins was a Special Guest of the 1977 San Diego Comic-Con, when she was presented with an Inkpot Award
. She won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A., a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz
and Robert Triptow
.
She was the 1992 Guest of Honor of WisCon
, the Wisconsin Science Fiction Convention, often called the world's leading feminist-oriented science fiction convention and conference.
In 1997, Robbins was a "Lulu of the Year
" winner for her book The Great Women Superheroes.
In 2002, Robbins was given the Special John Buscema
Haxtur Award
, a recognition for comics published in Spain.
Robbins was a special guest of the 2006 Sac-Anime
convention.
In 2011, Robbins' artwork was exhibited as part of the Koffler Gallery
show Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women.
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comics
Comics
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artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix
Underground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...
movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Both as a cartoonist and historian, Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists. With writer Forrest J. Ackerman, she was the artist co-creator of the character Vampirella
Vampirella
Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and costume designer Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 . Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in...
.
Early career
Robbins became an active member of science fiction fandomScience fiction fandom
Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or "fandom" of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy and in contact with one another based upon that interest...
in the 1950s, and her illustrations appeared in science fiction fanzines such as the Hugo
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
-nominated
Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...
Habakkuk
Habakkuk (fanzine)
Habakkuk was a science fiction fanzine edited by Bill Donaho. It was nominated for the 1961, 1967 and 1995 Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine.Habakkuk was published in three phases, which Donaho referred to as "Chapters"...
.
Comics
Robbins' first comics were printed in the East Village OtherEast Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
; she also contributed to the spin-off underground comic Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works
Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
.
In 1970 Robbins left New York for San Francisco, where she worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe. That same year she established the first all-woman comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
, the one-shot It Ain't Me, Babe Comix. From this period on, Robbins became increasingly involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists, through projects such as the comics anthology
Comics anthology
Comics anthologies collect works in the medium of comics that are too short for standalone publication.- U.S. :- UK :British comics have a long tradition publishing comics anthologies, often weekly...
Wimmen's Comix
Wimmen's Comix
Wimmen's Comix, later titled Wimmin's Comix, was an influential all-female underground comics anthology published from 1972 to 1992. Though it covered a wide range of genre and subject matter, Wimmen's Comix focused more than other anthologies of the time on feminist concerns, homosexuality, sex...
, with which she was involved for twenty years. Wimmen's Comix #1 featured Robbins' "Sandy Comes Out," the first-ever comic strip featuring an "out" lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
.
Robbins was becoming increasingly outspoken in her beliefs, for instance criticizing underground comix pioneer Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded...
for the perceived misogyny of many of his comics. She stated, "It's weird to me how willing people are to overlook the hideous darkness in Crumb's work.... What the hell is funny about rape and murder?" Robbins' lack of regard for R. Crumb reportedly played a part in her falling out with fellow Wimmen's Comix contributor Aline Kominsky (Crumb's girlfriend at the time, now his wife), who, along with fellow Wimmen's Comix contributor Diane Noomin
Diane Noomin
Diane Noomin is an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement, best known for her character Didi Glitz. She is the editor of the anthology series Twisted Sisters, and one of the original contributors to Wimmen's Comix. She has also done theatrical work, creating a stage...
, left the collective in 1975 to form their own all-female anthology, Twisted Sisters
Twisted Sisters
Twisted Sisters may refer to:* Unnamed Hariri Pontarini Architects project in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada* An underground comic series by Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Diane Noomin...
.
Robbins was artist co-creator of the Warren Publishing
Warren Publishing
Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades...
character Vampirella
Vampirella
Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and costume designer Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 . Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in...
, designing her costume and hair for writer Forrest J. Ackerman's story "Vampirella of Draculona" in Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969).
In the early 1980s Robbins created adaptations of Sax Rohmer
Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward , better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr...
's Dope and Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...
's The Silver Metal Lover. In the mid-1980s she wrote and drew Misty for the Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
children's imprint Star Comics
Star Comics
Star Comics was an imprint of Marvel Comics that began in 1984 and continued to publish comic books until early 1988. Titles published by the imprint were aimed at child readers and were often adaptations of children's television series, animated series or toys...
. The short-lived series was a reinterpretation of the long-standing character Millie the Model
Millie the Model
Millie the Model was Marvel Comics' longest-running humor title, first published by the company's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and continuing through its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics, to 1970s Marvel.-Publication history:...
, now as an older character running her own modeling agency and minding her niece Misty.
Robbins' official involvement with Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
, a character she had long admired, began in 1986. At the conclusion of the first volume of the series (in conjunction with the landmark series Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths is a 12-issue American comic book limited series and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 to simplify its then 50-year-old continuity...
), DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
published a four-issue limited series
Limited series
A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
titled The Legend of Wonder Woman, written by Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.-Early life:...
and drawn by Robbins. The series paid homage to the character's Golden Age
Golden Age of Comic Books
The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
roots. In the mid-1990s, Robbins criticized artist Mike Deodato
Mike Deodato
Mike Deodato , sometimes credited as Mike Deodato Jr., is the professional pseudonym of Brazilian comic book artist Deodato Taumaturgo Borges Filho.-Biography:...
's "bad girl art
Bad girl art
Bad girl art is a superheroines art form genre coined after the analogy of good girl art which also includes strong female characters in comic books...
" portrayal of Wonder Woman, calling Deodato's version of the character a "barely clothed hypersexual pinup
Pin-up girl
A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall...
." In the late 1990s, Robbins collaborated with Colleen Doran
Colleen Doran
Colleen Doran is an American writer/artist, film conceptual artist, and cartoonist. She has illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines, and dozens of stories and articles, including works written by Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, J...
on the DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
graphic novel Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story, on the subject of spousal abuse.
Recently, Robbins has been writing the comic book adventures of Honey West
Honey West
Honey West is a fictional character created by Gloria and Forest Fickling under the pseudonym "G.G. Fickling", and appearing in eleven mystery novels by the duo.The character is notable as being one of the first female private detectives in popular fiction...
, notable as being one of popular fiction's first female private detective.
Writing and activism
In addition to her comics work, Robbins is an author of nonfiction books, including several with an emphasis on the history of women in cartooning.Her first book, co-written with Catherine Yronwode
Catherine yronwode
Catherine "Cat" Yronwode is an American writer, editor, graphic designer, typesetter, publisher, and practitioner of folk magic with an extensive career in the comic book industry....
, was Women and the Comics, on the history of female comic-strip and comic-book creators. As one of the first book on this subject, its publication was covered in the mainstream press in addition to the fan press. Subsequent Robbins volumes on the history of women in the comics industry include A Century of Women Cartoonists (Kitchen Sink, 1993), The Great Women Superheroes (Kitchen Sink, 1997), From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines (Chronicle, 1999), and The Great Women Cartoonists (Watson-Guptill, 2001)
Robbins was a co-founder of Friends of Lulu
Friends of Lulu
Friends of Lulu was a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States, founded in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry...
, a nonprofit formed in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry.
Awards and recognition
Robbins is the first of the three "Ladies of the Canyon" in Joni MitchellJoni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
's classic song from the album of the same name
Ladies of the Canyon
Ladies of the Canyon is Joni Mitchell's third album, released in 1970. Its title refers to Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, a center of popular music culture in Los Angeles during the sixties...
.
Robbins was a Special Guest of the 1977 San Diego Comic-Con, when she was presented with an Inkpot Award
Inkpot Award
The Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to some of the professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction, and related pop-culture fields, who are guests of that organization's yearly multigenre fan convention, commonly known as...
. She won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A., a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz
Boleslav Felix Robert "Bill" Sienkiewicz [pronounced sin-KEV-itch] is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work, primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin...
and Robert Triptow
Robert Triptow
Robert Triptow is a writer and "the last of the underground cartoonists." His 1989 anthology Gay Comics is one of the earliest histories of the subject, and won the first Lambda Literary Award for Humor....
.
She was the 1992 Guest of Honor of WisCon
WisCon
Wiscon or WisCon, the Wisconsin Science Fiction Convention, is often called the world's leading feminist-oriented science fiction convention and conference. It was first held in Madison, Wisconsin in February 1977, and is held annually throughout the four day weekend of Memorial Day...
, the Wisconsin Science Fiction Convention, often called the world's leading feminist-oriented science fiction convention and conference.
In 1997, Robbins was a "Lulu of the Year
Friends of Lulu
Friends of Lulu was a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States, founded in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry...
" winner for her book The Great Women Superheroes.
In 2002, Robbins was given the Special John Buscema
John Buscema
John Buscema, born Giovanni Natale Buscema , was an American comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate...
Haxtur Award
Haxtur Award
The Haxtur Award is a Spanish award for comics published in Spain. It is awarded annually at the Salón Internacional del Cómic del Principado de Asturias ....
, a recognition for comics published in Spain.
Robbins was a special guest of the 2006 Sac-Anime
Sac-Anime
Sac-Anime is a semi-annual anime convention in Sacramento, California. The convention is the sister convention to the Sacramento Anime, Toy, and Comic Show, which is also known as Sac-Con.-History:...
convention.
In 2011, Robbins' artwork was exhibited as part of the Koffler Gallery
Koffler Centre of the Arts
The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution, established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler, in the North York area of Toronto, on Bathurst Street within the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre.-Activities and Facilities:...
show Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women.
Comics
- As writer/artist, unless otherwise noted
- East Village OtherEast Village OtherThe East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
(late 1960s) — contributor - Gothic Blimp WorksGothic Blimp WorksGothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color and black-and-white...
(East Village Other, 1969) — contributor - It Ain't Me, Babe Comix (Last Gasp, 1970) — co-founder, contributor
- Swift Comics (Bantam BooksBantam BooksBantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
, 1971) — contributor - Wimmen's ComixWimmen's ComixWimmen's Comix, later titled Wimmin's Comix, was an influential all-female underground comics anthology published from 1972 to 1992. Though it covered a wide range of genre and subject matter, Wimmen's Comix focused more than other anthologies of the time on feminist concerns, homosexuality, sex...
(Last Gasp, Renegade Press, Rip Off Press, 1972–1992) — co-founder, contributor - Comix BookComix BookComix Book was an underground comic book series published from 1974–1976, originally by Marvel Comics. It was the first underground comic to be published by a mainstream publisher. Edited by Denis Kitchen, Comix Book featured work by such underground luminaries as Justin Green, Kim Deitch, Trina...
(Marvel Comics, Kitchen Sink, 1974–1976) — contributor - Tits & Clits ComixTits & Clits ComixTits & Clits Comix was an all-female underground comics anthology put together by Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevely, published from 1972 to 1987...
#3 (Nanny Goat Productions, 1977) — contributor - Dope (Eclipse Comics, 1981–1983) — adaptation of the Sax RohmerSax RohmerArthur Henry Sarsfield Ward , better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr...
novel - Gates of Eden (FantaCo, 1982) — contributor
- The Silver Metal Lover (Crown Books, 1985) — adaptation of the Tanith LeeTanith LeeTanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...
novel - Good Girls (Wonderful Publishing Company, 1985) — contributor
- Misty (Star ComicsStar ComicsStar Comics was an imprint of Marvel Comics that began in 1984 and continued to publish comic books until early 1988. Titles published by the imprint were aimed at child readers and were often adaptations of children's television series, animated series or toys...
, 1985–1986) - Gay ComixGay ComixGay Comix was an underground comics series published from 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cruse, Gay Comix featured the work of gay, lesbian, and transsexual artists. Much of the early content was autobiographical, but more diverse themes were explored in later editions...
#6, #11, #25 (Bob RossBob Ross (publisher)Bob Ross was the former publisher of the Bay Area Reporter and a key gay rights and AIDS activist in San Francisco.Ross was born in New York City....
, 1985, 1986, 1998) - Wonder WomanWonder WomanWonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
(DC Comics, 1986) — writer - Strip AIDS U.S.A.: A Collection of Cartoon Art to Benefit People With AIDSAIDSAcquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
(Last Gasp, 1988) — editor (with Bill SienkiewiczBill SienkiewiczBoleslav Felix Robert "Bill" Sienkiewicz [pronounced sin-KEV-itch] is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work, primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin...
& Robert TriptowRobert TriptowRobert Triptow is a writer and "the last of the underground cartoonists." His 1989 anthology Gay Comics is one of the earliest histories of the subject, and won the first Lambda Literary Award for Humor....
) - War News (Jim MitchellMitchell brothersThe brothers James "Jim" Lloyd Mitchell and Artie Jay Mitchell were pioneers in the pornography and striptease club business in San Francisco and other parts of California from 1969 until 1991, when Jim was convicted of killing Artie.They opened the O'Farrell Theatre in 1969 as an adult cinema...
, 1991) — contributor to underground newspaper launched to protest the first Gulf WarGulf WarThe Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
. - Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story (DC Comics, 1998) — writer; drawn by Colleen DoranColleen DoranColleen Doran is an American writer/artist, film conceptual artist, and cartoonist. She has illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines, and dozens of stories and articles, including works written by Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, J...
- Alien Apocalypse 2006 (Frog Ltd., 2000) — contributor
- GoGirl (Image ComicsImage ComicsImage Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
, 2000–2001) — writer - 9-11: September 11, 2001 (Artists Respond)9-11 (comics)9-11 comics emerged following the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, and cartoonists turned to art to express their grief and support...
(Dark Horse Comics/Chaos! Comics/Image Comics, 2002) — writer/contributor - The PhantomThe PhantomThe Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...
Chronicles (Moonstone Books, 2007) — writer/contributor - Girl ComicsGirl ComicsGirl Comics is the name of two comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its forerunners, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. The first was a ongoing series that debuted in 1949, and the second a limited series published in 2010....
(Marvel Comics, 2010) — contributor - Honey WestHoney WestHoney West is a fictional character created by Gloria and Forest Fickling under the pseudonym "G.G. Fickling", and appearing in eleven mystery novels by the duo.The character is notable as being one of the first female private detectives in popular fiction...
(Moonstone Books, 2010–present) — writer
- East Village Other
Nonfiction
- Women and the Comics by Catherine YronwodeCatherine yronwodeCatherine "Cat" Yronwode is an American writer, editor, graphic designer, typesetter, publisher, and practitioner of folk magic with an extensive career in the comic book industry....
and Trina Robbins (Eclipse, 1983) ISBN 0-913035-01-7 - A Century of Women Cartoonists (Kitchen Sink, 1993) ISBN 0-87816-206-2
- The Great Women Superheroes (Kitchen Sink, 1997) ISBN 0-87816-482-0
- From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines (Chronicle, 1999) ISBN 0-8118-2199-4
- The Great Women Cartoonists (Watson-Guptill, 2001) ISBN 0-8230-2170-X
- Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century (McFarland & Co., 2001) ISBN 0-7864-1151-1
- Eternally Bad: Goddesses with Attitude (Conari Press, 2001) ISBN 1-57324-550-X
- Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill (Conari Press, 2003) ISBN 1-57324-821-5
- Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens (Conari Press, 2004) ISBN 1-57324952-1
- "Girls on Top?," chapter 6 of Dez Skinn's Comix: The Underground Revolution (Collins & Brown/Thunder's Mouth, 2004) ISBN 184340186X
- The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons from 1913-1940 (Fantagraphics BooksFantagraphics BooksFantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint...
, 2009) ISBN 978-1560979708 — introduction - Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (Hampton Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1572739475