

In 2013, Trina was voted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Trina's most recent book is Pretty in Ink, her final and definitive history of women cartoonists. I also was involved with magazine cartoons ( Car-Toons magazine in the 1950s), comic strips (four episodes of the. Long time animator (1954 1999) who frequently dabbled in other comic arts. And now she’s added Tarp Mills to her volumes of female comics masters. Willie Ito, Michael Maslin, Vonn Sumner, Charlie Daniel, Ed Steckley, Trina Robbins, Lee Mars, Jules Rivera, more. She also co-founded numerous underground comics magazines for women artists in the 1970s, including It Ain't Me, Babe Comix and Wimmen's Comix, and has contributed to several others through the decades. Trina’s 2009 The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913-1940 is a stunning collection as well as a detailed pictorial chronicle of the evolution of fashion and style, from Nouveau to Deco. Her graphic novel, Lily Renee: Escape Artist, was awarded a gold medal from Moonbeam Children's Books and a silver medal from Sydney Taylor Jewish Library Awards. Some of her favorite comic books were Patsy Walker(1944), Millie the Model(19451965), Katy Keene(19451960), Junior Miss(1946) and Miss.

Her all-ages graphic novel, Chicagoland Detective Agency: The Drained Brains Caper, first in a 6-book series, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. In these, Trina always looked for female protagonists. Her 2009 book, The Brinkley Girls: the Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons from 1913-1940 (Fantagraphics), and her 2011 book, Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury, were nominated for Eisner awards and Harvey awards. Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for over forty years.
