Trina Robbins, a cartoonist, writer and editor who helped make room for women in the male-dominated world of American comics, creating books and anthologies with sophisticated female characters and an unabashedly feminist perspective, died April 10 at a hospital in San Francisco. She was 85.
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Trina Robbins, cartoonist who elevated women’s stories, dies at 85
She put out the first American comic book created entirely by women. Years later, she chronicled the history of female comics artists, writing books that excavated the stories of overlooked writers and illustrators.
April 12, 2024 at 9:04 p.m. EDT
