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Robbins, Trina

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROB

Robbins, Trina.

Summary: Presents the story of Lily Renee Wilheim, the Jewish girl who escaped from the Nazis through the Kindertransport operation, leaving her parents behind and traveling alone to England, later becoming a comic book artist in New York.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2011

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Wilheim

Robbins, Trina

Summary: The world of comic strips always reflected the fashion of the time-- from R.F. Outcault's nightie-clad 'Yellow Kid' to Grace Drayton's 'Campbell Kids'. By the 1920s all the little roly-poly girls depicted in those early strips had grown up, bobbed their curls, and become flappers. Women got the vote in 1920, and suddenly they were equal to the boys-- at least in the voting booth. They smoked...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphic Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROB

Summary: "In the 1920s they were socialites and flappers. In the 1960s they were homemakers and heartthrobs. But from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, female stars of the newspaper comic strips were detectives, spies, soldiers of fortune, even superheroes. Accomplishing everything the male comics stars of the time achieved, except they did it in high-heels and flowing skirts. Follow the daring...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunday Press Books, an imprint of Fantagraphics, Seattle, WA 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAU

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