34 Facts About Trina Robbins

Trina Robbins was an early participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the first women in the movement.

Trina Robbins co-produced the 1970 underground comic It Ain't Me, Babe, which was the first comic book entirely created by women.

Trina Robbins co-founded the Wimmen's Comix collective, wrote for Wonder Woman, and produced adaptations of Dope and The Silver Metal Lover.

Trina Robbins was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2013 and received Eisner Awards in 2017 and 2021.

Trina Robbins co-founded the organization Friends of Lulu in 1993.

Trina Robbins Perlson was born on August 17,1938, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Jewish immigrants originally from Belarus.

Trina Robbins's mother was an elementary school teacher and her father was a tailor.

Trina Robbins grew up in South Ozone Park, Queens, and held an early fascination with comic book heroines, especially Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Trina Robbins attended Queens College in New York, and dropped out.

Trina Robbins then attended Cooper Union for a year, where she studied drawing.

Trina Robbins moved to California in 1960, settling in Los Angeles where she was a nude model for men's magazines.

Trina Robbins returned to New York in 1966 and lived in Manhattan's East Village, where she worked as a stylist and ran a clothing boutique called "Broccoli".

Trina Robbins was intimately involved in the 1960s rock scene, where she was close friends with Jim Morrison and members of The Byrds.

Trina Robbins was the first of the three "Ladies of the Canyon" in Joni Mitchell's classic song from the album of the same name.

Trina Robbins was an active member of science fiction fandom in the 1950s and 1960s.

Trina Robbins's illustrations appeared in science fiction fanzines like the Hugo-nominated Habakkuk.

Trina Robbins left New York for San Francisco in 1970, and worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe.

Trina 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.

In 1990, Trina Robbins edited and contributed to Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National Organization for Women, published under Trina Robbins' own imprint, Angry Isis Press.

Trina Robbins wrote the stories, with Anne Timmons providing the bulk of the art.

Trina Robbins appeared as herself in Wonder Woman Annual 2.

Trina 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.

Trina Robbins is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

Trina Robbins wrote a memoir entitled Last Girl Standing, released in 2017 by Fantagraphics.

Trina Robbins died after a stroke in San Francisco, California, on April 10,2024, at the age of 85.

Trina Robbins's partner was artist Steve Leialoha from 1977 until her death.

Trina Robbins was a Special Guest of the 1977 San Diego Comic-Con, when she was presented with an Inkpot Award.

Trina Robbins won a Special Achievement Award from San Diego Comic-Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS USA, a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow.

Trina Robbins was the 1992 Guest of Honor of WisCon, the Wisconsin Science Fiction Convention.

In 2001, Trina Robbins was inaugurated into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame.

In 2002, Trina Robbins was given the Special John Buscema Haxtur Award, a recognition for comics published in Spain.

In 2011, Trina Robbins' artwork was exhibited as part of the Koffler Gallery show Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women.

In July 2013, during San Diego Comic-Con, Trina Robbins was one of six inductees into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame.

In 2017, Trina Robbins was chosen for the Wizard World Hall of Legends.