Trina Robbins was born on August 17, 1938 and passed away on April 10, 2024. She was an American cartoonist, an early participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the first women in the movement at that.

Trina was born in Brooklyn and had an early fascination with comic book heroines. She attended Cooper Union for a year, where she studied drawing before moving to California in 1960. In 1996, she moved to Manhattan, where she worked as a stylist and ran a clothing boutique called Broccoli. She designed clothes for Mama Cass, Donovan, and David Crosby, among others, all while making herself at home in the 1960a rock scene. She was actually close friends with Jim Morrison and members of The Byrds, and was the first of the three "Ladies of the Canyon" in Joni Mitchell's classic song.

Trina's first comics were printed in 1966, but left New York for San Francisco and worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe. She also produced the first all-woman comic book, the one-shot It Ain't Me, Babe Comix with fellow female artist Barbara "Willy" Mendes.

Trina was very vocal in speaking out against the misogyny and "boy's club" of comics creators criticizing underground comix artist Robert Crumb for the perceived misogyny of many of his comics, famously saying, "It's weird to me how willing people are to overlook the hideous darkness in Crumb's work ... What the hell is funny about rape and murder?"

In 1990, Trina edited and contributed to Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National Organization for Women, published under her own imprint, Angry Isis Press. In 2000 Robbins introduced GoGirl! — superhero stories designed to appeal to young girls.

In 1986, Trina got involved with Wonder Woman. She drew the comics for The Legend of Wonder Woman, which was a four-part series written by Kurt Busiek. In the mid-1990s, Trina criticized artist Mike Deodato's "bad girl art" portrayal of Wonder Woman, calling Deodato's version of the character a "barely clothed hypersexual pinup."

In addition to her comics work, Trina was an author of nonfiction books on the history of women in cartooning. She wrote Women and the Comics, A Century of Women Cartoonists, The Great Women Superheroes, From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines, and The Great Women Cartoonists.

In 1997, Trina was a Special Guest at Comic-Con in San Diego, where she was presented with an Inkpot Award. In 1989, she won a Special Achievement Award at Comic-Con for her work on Strip AIDS USA. She was a three-time winner of the Lulu of the Year, was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2001, and in 2002, she was given the Special John Buscema Haxtur Award.

In 2013, she was inducted into theWill Eisner Hall of Fame, and in 2015, she was ranked #25 among the best female comics creators of all time. ComicsAlliance named Trina as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition in 2016, and in 2017, she was chosen for the Wizard World Hall of Legends.

All in all, Trina Robbins was an extremely talented artist and feminist icon, and will not only be deeply and dearly missed by those who knew and loved her, but by the world of comics as well.