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Shelton was a true gentleman. What happened was in the first half of the seventies, comics were sold in head shops and they sold very well, but then the head shops closed. Just wonderful to have all these voices still around and still speaking to us. Just like their male counterparts, the women underground artists drew a lot of comix about sex - but in a completely different way, from the woman's perspective. I went to a meeting in San Francisco of most of the artists, and met Trina for the first time. Everybody knew everybody, or at least everybody knew somebody who knew somebody else on the Left in the Bay Area. And among working artists, but I did think they treated Trina like crap.

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Wimmen's Comix - Wikipedia

I gathered together a few of the women cartoonists and comix artists, and we organized to get other cartoonists to back us to get women a chance ccomix publish a comic, and show we could do the work, and show that it would sell.

I have heard some women say that it did not function as a collective, but it damn well was a collective.

There would always wimmdns work in it that was artistically marginal or had a lame story or whatever. Suddenly there was new blood around, in San Francisco, and Trina Robbins and Dori had come up with the idea of starting up again though any one of the group could have She was a kind of mentor to me and has always been very encouraging. My first husband, Rick Kunstler, was friends with Kim Deitch.

I had the book put together, I just had not done the color separations. What happened was in the first half of the seventies, comics were sold in head shops and they sold very well, but then the head shops closed.

Kudos to Alex Dueben for masterfully weaving together bits of interviews with almost 2 dozen cartoonists to let us tell the story in our own words. As you can see in the group photo, three of us were pregnant, and Trina had just had her baby.

Only that little clique of cmix. Then I took her to a party where she met her future husband.

They were a couple and we ended up renting a house with them on Edgar Place. Before I even got to New York someone showed me a copy of The East Village Other and it had comics in it and they were about hippies rather than superheroes.

I did have my consciousness raised by Trina. I was so thrilled by the prospect that I could do color. We should have gone back to Last Gasp, but didn't, and I'm not sure why.

Wimmen's Comix (1970 - 1991)

He was really was one of the fine artists of that period. One would think, with all the political turmoil going on in the 60s and 70s that there would have been persons of color using the comics medium to speak out on those issues.

This was a place that felt good. Real communists are boring and bureaucratic and doctrinaire and lock people up too, but commies are the ones that have great views and make great literature and help civil rights movements.

Justin Green was the first autobiographical graphic novelist and everybody that came after should pay homage to him. We tried to be very inclusive. Reading through the eighteen issues, which span twenty-two years in all, including a notable seven year gap between issues seven and eight, one gets the sense of a somewhat diverse body of women trying to navigate individual artistic modes, to find their voices and styles, while continually bumping up against what it means to be published in a venue that, by its very name, suggests marginality and difference.

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An Interview with Frank Santoro. Trina Robbins' first Comjx Village Other cartoon. We were both involved in politics, as everyone was in those days. There were talented and able women everywhere, chafing at the bit to get a chance to show they could do such amazing work. However by deciding to do that that meant that the book would never be a superior piece of art that could be seen as a classic comic work of art. Wimmems the FBI wrote about him, they talked about his jacket.

Everything that made me want to do art from the time I was a little kid was not only dead, but scorned and reviled when I was in college. Part Two is here. Kominsky-Crumb has later claimed that a large part of her break with the Wimmen's Wimmena group was over feminist issues.

The ones that were political stand out—like Guy Colwell, who was very political—but most of the guys were not at all. Read by Reds Everywhere.