Out Aug. 20, 2013
With the 1896 publication of Rose O’Neill’s comic strip The Old Subscriber Calls, in Truth Magazine,
American women entered the field of comics, and they never left it.
But, you might not know that reading most of the comics histories out
there.
Trina Robbins has spent the last thirty years recording the
accomplishments of a century of women cartoonists, and Pretty in Ink
is her ultimate book, 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 new photos and correspondence from cartoonists Ethel Hays
and Edwina Dumm, and the true story of Golden Age comic book star Lily
Renee, as intriguing as the comics she drew. Although the comics
profession was dominated by men, there were far more women working in
the profession throughout the 20th century than other histories
indicate, and they have flourished in the 21st.
Robbins not only
documents the increasing relevance of women throughout the 20th century,
with mainstream creators such as Ramona Fradon and Dale Messick and
alternative cartoonists such as Lynda Barry, Carol Tyler, and Phoebe
Gloeckner, but the latest generation of women cartoonists—Megan Kelso,
Cathy Malkasian, Linda Medley, and Lilli Carré, among many others.
Robbins is the preeminent historian of women comic artists; forget her
previous histories: Pretty in Ink is her most comprehensive volume to date. Black & white illustrations with 48 pages of color
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