# Trina Robbins has died at age 85

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**Created:** [April 17, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trina-robbins-has-died-at-age-85/1000402 "2024-04-17T12:25:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trina-robbins-has-died-at-age-85/1000402/1 "2024-04-17T12:25:17Z")

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If you’re saying “Who?” you should know that I feel pretty much the same way. I never heard of her until this morning, when I read about her in Keefknight’s **The K Chronicles**

> **[Cartoon: Trina](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/16/2235617/-Cartoon-Trina)**
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> www.patreon.com/keefknight Order new book at www.keithknight.bigcartel....

This is somebody I ought to have known more about. She was active not only in underground comics but in “legit” comics,m too. She wrote issues of Wonder Woman! She designed Vampirella’s costume!

She was pals with lots of rock and folk musicians and was a big SF fan and illustrator. She co-produced the first comic entirely by women and founded the _Wimmen’s Comic Collective_.

She actually died last week, on April 10.

> **[Trina Robbins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trina_Robbins)**
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> Trina Robbins (née Perlson; August 17, 1938 – April 10, 2024) was an American cartoonist. She was an early participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the first women in the movement. She co-produced the 1970 underground comic It Ain't Me, Babe, which was the first comic book entirely created by women. She co-founded the Wimmen's Comix collective, wrote for Wonder Woman, and produced adaptations of Dope and The Silver Metal Lover. She was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fam...

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**Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trina-robbins-has-died-at-age-85/1000402/2 "2024-04-17T12:53:35Z")

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I remember her largely from the four issue limited series, _The Legend of Wonder Woman_, that she drew in 1986. It came out between the cancellation of the original Wonder Woman series, and the post-Crisis reboot by George Perez, and it was deliberately planned as the final pre-Crisis Wonder Woman story.

Robbins had a quirky, but nevertheless attractive, style that was quite different from anything else going on in mainstream comics at that time. I was vaguely aware that she had enjoyed a very long career, but unfortunately that was the only work of hers that I took much interest in at the time. More’s the pity for me, it sounds like.

She was, apparently, the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trina-robbins-has-died-at-age-85/1000402/3 "2024-04-17T13:00:07Z")

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> [@MrAtoz](#):
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> Robbins had a quirky, but nevertheless attractive, style that was quite different from anything else going on in mainstream comics at that time.

I don’t know about her other work, but IIRC the style used for that limited series was deliberately done i9n imitation of the older style used for Wonder Woman. I have a WW comic from the 1950s, and the art looks weird compared to the 1960s run.