Trina Robbins

Trina Robbins (1938–2024) was an American cartoonist, writer, and historian who advanced the representation of women in comics through her creative and scholarly work. She produced It Ain't Me Babe in 1970, the first comic book created exclusively by women, and contributed to Wimmen's Comix, an ongoing anthology that highlighted female creators in the underground comix scene. In mainstream publishing, Robbins became the first woman to draw a complete issue of Wonder Woman for DC Comics in 1986. As a historian, she authored books such as From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines, documenting the contributions of female artists from the early 20th century onward. Her efforts earned induction into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2013, along with Eisner Awards for her historical writings in 2017 and 2021.

Trina Robbins was born Trina Perlson on August 17, 1938, in Brooklyn, New York, the younger of two daughters to Jewish immigrant parents originally from what was then Russia (now Belarus). Her father, Max Bear Perlson, worked as a tailor and wrote stories in Yiddish, including tales set in his shtetl of Duboy and later in America during the 1920s and 1930s. Her mother, Elizabeth (Bessie) Rosenman Perlson, was an elementary school teacher in the New York City public schools.