Trina Robbins he leaves us at the age of 84. She died today in a hospital in San Francisco, California, due to a stroke. The woman has a long career and a life full of talent and political activism.
Before becoming great cartoonist who we all know was a stylist and seamstress in New York: she made clothes for rock stars, including David Crosby and Donovan. Reference personality in the musical and hippie world of the sixties, Mitchel's song “Ladies of Canyon” is inspired and dedicated to her:
'Trina wears her wampum beads / She fills her drawing book with line / Sewing lace on widow's weeds / And filigree on leaf and vine'.
Born in New York in 1938, he began collaborating with some magazines and his first comic strip for an American magazine dates back to 1966. In 1969 he designed the costume of Vampirella for Frank Franzetta who worked for Warren Publishing, and in the same year Panthea for Gothic Blimp Works, the first magazine specialized in the US underground sector. She is among the designers of It Ain't Me Babe Comixin 1970, the first comic wanted and created by women.
In 1985 he invented Wonder Women, timeless sexy superheroine, strong and invincible. She achieves global success by imposing a female figure in a world made up of male super heroes. At the end of the nineties she collaborated with some artists to create comics, raising public awareness of domestic abuse.
Great feminist activist dedicated her life tofemale emancipation, gender inequalities and social discrimination. She has collaborated with hundreds of magazines and her heroines are always original, determined and free.
Among the main recognitions we remember the entry into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2013 and into the Wizard World Hall of Legends in 2017. In addition to being a successful cartoonist, she had a luminous career as an essayist on the female figure in comics and as a historian of this particular branch of art. Her first book was written together with Catherine Yronwode,Women and the Comics. He created the non-profit association Friend for Lulu, in 1994 to promote the artistic activity of women and encourage them in their career path.
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