girl fight
Girl Fight
Print Mint (Fall 1974)
Stories, Art and Cover by Trina Robbins. Early feminist and girl-power underground comix.
Robbins’ first comics were printed in the East Village Other; she also contributed to the spin-off underground comic Gothic Blimp Works. In 1969, Robbins designed the costume for the Warren Publishing character Vampirella for artist Frank Frazetta in Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969).
She left New York for San Francisco in 1970, where she worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain’t Me, Babe. The same year, she produced the first all-woman comic book, the one-shot It Ain’t Me, Babe Comix with fellow female artist Barbara “Willy” Mendes. 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. Wimmen’s Comix #1 featured Robbins’ “Sandy Comes Out”, the first-ever comic strip featuring an “out” lesbian.
During this time, Robbins also became a contributor to the San Francisco-based underground paper Good Times,[10] along with art director Harry Driggs and Guy Colwell. Robbins became increasingly outspoken in her beliefs, criticizing underground comix artist Robert Crumb for the perceived misogyny of many of his comics, yet piggybacked on his fame by contributing to many titles with Crumb, which led some critics to question her sincerity or whether she was bandwagoning of trying to have it both ways.
