Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing graphic
novels, comics and books for over thirty years, ever since she produced the first
all-woman comic book, It Ain’t Me, Babe, in 1970. Her subjects have ranged from
Wonder Woman and the Powerpuff Girls to her own teenage superheroine, GoGirl!, and
from women cartoonists and superheroines to women who kill. She is considered the
expert on the subject of early 20th century women cartoonists, and is responsible for
rediscovering many brilliant but previously-forgotten women, including Golden Age
Fiction House cartoonist Lily Renee, and the great Nell Brinkley. Her full-color book,
The Brinkley Girls: the Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913-1940
(Fantagraphics), was published in April, 2009. Her most recent book is Forbidden City: the Golden Age of
Chinese Nightclubs (Hampton Press), a history of Chinese nightclubs in San Francisco's Chinatown from 1937 - 1964.
Coming soon in 2010: a 3-book YA graphic novel series, The Chicagoland Detective Agency
(Lerners Books).