'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Robbins is the preeminent historian of women comic artists forget her previous histories: Pretty in Ink is her most comprehensive volume to date. Robbins not only documents the increasing relevance of women throughout the 20th century, with mainstream creators such as Ramona Fradon and Dale Messick and alternative cartoonists such as Lynda Barry, Carol Tyler, and Phoebe Gloeckner, but the latest generation of women cartoonists―Megan Kelso, Cathy Malkasian, Linda Medley, and Lilli Carré, among many others. Although the comics profession was dominated by men, there were far more women working in the profession throughout the 20th century than other histories indicate, and they have flourished in the 21st. Trina Robbins has spent the last thirty years recording the accomplishments of a century of women cartoonists, and Pretty in Ink is her ultimate book, a revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists, with more color illustrations than ever before, and with some startling new discoveries (such as a Native American woman cartoonist from the 1940s who was also a Corporal in the women’s army, and the revelation that a cartoonist included in all of Robbins’s previous histories was a man!) In the pages of Pretty in Ink you’ll find new photos and correspondence from cartoonists Ethel Hays and Edwina Dumm, and the true story of Golden Age comic book star Lily Renee, as intriguing as the comics she drew.

But, you might not know that reading most of the comics histories out there. We anticipate a fall '23 fulfillment after a successful campaign, and Zoop will provide updates and communicate any delays that may pop up.With the 1896 publication of Rose O’Neill’s comic strip The Old Subscriber Calls, in Truth Magazine, American women entered the field of comics, and they never left it. The book is finished! All we have to do is print and fulfill supporter rewards! In 2013, Robbins was voted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Her most recent books are Gladys Parker, a life in comics, a passion for fashion (Hermes Press, 2022), and the Eisner winning The Flapper Queens (Fantagraphics, 2020) Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 by Trina Robbins 180-page color/black & white 9' x 12' softcover 29.99 ISBN. Her all-ages graphic novel Chicagoland Detective Agency: The Drained Brains Caper (Graphic Universe, 2010), the first in a six-book series, was a Junior Library Guild Selection.

Her books The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons from 1913–1940 (Fantagraphics, 2009) and Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury (IDW Publishing, 2011) were nominated for Eisner awards and Harvey awards. Pretty in Ink traces the often overlooked history of professional women cartoonists from 1896 through the twentieth century, revealing the extent of women's impact on this male dominated industry. She has written and drawn comics from Honey West to Barbie, and was the first woman to draw Wonder Woman. Trina Robbins will discuss the history of women cartoonists based on research from her 2013 book, Pretty in Ink. Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for nearly fifty years.

Pretty In Ink by Trina Robbins