THE SILVER METAL LOVER by Trina Robbins (Wimmen’s Comix)
Trina Robbins (1938-2024) was a firebrand. Trina Robbins will be fondly remembered as the raucous female alternative voice to the acknowledged underground superstar cartoonists of the 1960s (think R. Crumb), a group that just happened to be predominantly male. There doesn’t appear to be any documented proof that the ’60s comix scene was somehow formed by some conspiracy to create a “no girls allowed” cabal. That said, it was a “man’s world” back then and that attitude and power structure did manage to permeate, ya dig? So, it made perfect sense for Robbins to launch into her own female-focused Wimmen’s Comix comic book series, which became a lightning rod in the culture wars. The men got to create experimental comics. And so did the women.
