![]() ![]() ![]() (The Eisner ceremony was held Friday night in San Diego Robbins did not win.) It’s the latest in a series of biographical books on early women cartoonists by Robbins it was nominated for an Eisner Award for best comics-related book. Robbins is also the subject of the first verse of Joni Mitchell’s “Ladies of the Canyon,” which has nothing to do with Comic-Con but is just incredibly cool.Īs Comic-Con opened this year, with Hollywood once again mostly absent, thanks largely to the ongoing writers and actors strikes, we found her at the Hermes Press booth signing copies of her more recent book, “Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics and Passion for Fashion.” Robbins, one of the first female cartoonists in the underground comix movement of the ’60s, and later an important writer, artist and editor in the women and feminist comics scene in the ’70s, has been a regular at Comic-Con ever since. “Someone came down to find me, so I pulled on my jeans over my swimsuit and went as fast as I could.” “I hung out at the pool so much I forgot there was a panel I was supposed to be on,” she said. ![]() “It was so much smaller then,” Robbins, 84, said of Comic-Con in the days before Hollywood came down with star-studded panels and blockbuster movies and TV shows to promote. The first time writer and cartoonist Trina Robbins came to San Diego Comic-Con, it was 1977 and she almost missed the panel she was scheduled to appear on because she was having so much fun at the pool at the old El Cortez Hotel. ![]()
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