Wimmen
Wimmen's Comix from 1972 and the women who made it, including Trina Robbins and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, after the first underground wave largely shut them out.
Part of Underground Comics
56 moments in this segment.
- - Page from a Rudahl strip. The opening page of a four-page underground comic by Sharon Rudahl, a founding contributor to Wimmen's Comix, which began in 1972.
- - Yronwode speaking. Addressing the Women in Comics panel, with Lee Marrs at left and Carol Lay at right.
- - Yronwode, Lay and Gebbie. A critic and two cartoonists side by side, Lay and Gebbie both having come up through the underground anthologies.
- - Catherine Yronwode. Yronwode wrote criticism and history for the comics press before editing at Eclipse.
- - Seda, Marrs, Duursema, Robbins and Kalish. The panel line-up in one frame, underground autobiography sitting alongside mainstream pencilling and the distribution trade.
- - Dori Seda. Seda drew autobiographical work for Weirdo and Wimmen's Comix in an unsparing register. She died in 1988, aged 36.
- - Jan Duursema. Duursema on the panel at a point when women drawing for the mainstream companies were still few enough to be counted.
- - Duffy, Marrs and Yronwode. Three panellists in a row, an editor, an underground cartoonist and a critic, the mix the session was built on.
- - Marrs at the panel. Speaking from the Women in Comics table, microphone pulled close.
- - Melinda Gebbie. Gebbie contributed to Wimmen's Comix and drew Fresca Zizis, which was seized as obscene in Britain in 1980.
- - Trina Robbins. Robbins founded Wimmen's Comix in 1972 and spent the following decades recovering the work of women cartoonists the histories had dropped. She died on 10 April 2024.
- - Duursema, Robbins and Kalish. Jan Duursema, Trina Robbins and Carol Kalish together on the Women in Comics panel, three careers spanning newsstand work, the underground and distribution.
- - Along the panel table. The full row of speakers, photographed from one end of the table.
- - Women in Comics panel. Five women seated behind a draped table for the Women in Comics session, a fixture that carried the argument begun by Wimmen's Comix into the convention programme.
- - Panel from the floor. The Women in Comics speakers viewed from among the seated audience, microphones set out along the table.
- - Speakers at the table. Panellists in conversation, one leaning toward the microphone while the others listen.
- - Audience side of the room. A wider frame of the session showing the room it drew and the bare hotel function space it was held in.
- - Shary Flenniken y Trots and Bonnie. Shary Flenniken reads from Trots and Bonnie, the strip about two girls and a talking dog she drew for National Lampoon through the 1970s.
- - Sue Coe
- - Panel with Barry and Burns. The critic Bill Kartalopoulos on stage with Lynda Barry and Charles Burns at the 2010 Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.
- - The Secret History of Women in Comics. A Small Press Expo panel from September 2011 sets the recent rise of women in comics against the earlier generations whose work had largely dropped out of the record.
- - Kominsky-Crumb in Chicago. The artist at the Comics: Philosophy and Practice conference, whose autobiographical work predates most of the genre's American practitioners.
- - Lines on Paper panel. Lynda Barry, Gary Panter, Ivan Brunetti and Robert Crumb together on a 2012 Chicago panel about drawing.
- - COMICFESTIVAL MÜNCHEN 2013 - Künstlergespräch Robert Crumb und Aline Kominsky-Crumb „Drawn together". Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who died in November 2022, appear at the Jewish Museum in Munich in May 2013 to discuss Drawn Together, the collaborative strips they made about their marriage.
- - JD and Liz Talk: Queer Women in Comics Panel. Paige Braddock, Jennifer Camper, Kris Dresen, JD Glass and Joan Hilty revisit the queer women in comics panel from New York Comic Con and take stock of what changed after it.
- - Graphic Novels Panel 2 - Noomin, Lasko-Gross, Robbins: 2015 National Book Festival. Diane Noomin, creator of Didi Glitz and editor of the Twisted Sisters anthologies, appears with Miss Lasko-Gross and Trina Robbins at the Library of Congress.
- - FROM THE DEPTHS - TRINA ROBBINS. Trina Robbins, who died in April 2024, is filmed in San Francisco for a short documentary series about the underground comix generation she belonged to.
- - Barry at NASA Goddard. The cartoonist, by then teaching at Wisconsin, argues for the practical value of drawing to an audience of scientists.
- - Telling Feminist Histories with Comix Panel Discussion. Elvis B., Hazel Newlevant, Roxy and Maggie Thrash present their own comics and then debate how the form carries feminist history and personal processing. Jan Descartes and Monica McKelvey Johnson, co-organisers of the Our Comics, Ourselves exhibition, moderate at Interference Archive in 2016.
- - Wimmin's Comix. Trina Robbins, who died in April 2024, edited It Ain't Me Babe in 1970 and helped found Wimmen's Comix two years later, an anthology that ran for twenty years and is marked here by its Fantagraphics collection.
- - Drawn Together opening. The couple at the opening of their joint exhibition at the Cartoonmuseum Basel, a show built around the strips they drew together.
- - Comics Alternative Interviews: Carol Tyler. Carol Tyler speaks at Small Press Expo about Soldier's Heart, her memoir tracing her father's Second World War service, and about how readers and veterans responded to it. The conversation moves through post-traumatic stress, veterans' care and the shape of autobiographical comics.
- - SPX 2016 Panel - Spotlight on Trina Robbins. Trina Robbins, who died in April 2024, takes the Small Press Expo stage with Heidi MacDonald to discuss The Complete Wimmen's Comix, the two-volume collection of the feminist anthology she helped found in 1972.
- - Doucet in Montreal. The author of Dirty Plotte photographed inside the Drawn and Quarterly South bookshop.
- - Superheroes Beyond Conference 2018 - Trina Robbins In Conversation. Trina Robbins appears in conversation at the Superheroes Beyond conference held at ACMI in Melbourne. No description accompanies the recording.
- - Drawing Power Panel: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival. Contributors to the anthology Drawing Power discuss the nonfiction comics they made for it about sexual violence, harassment and survival. Diane Noomin edited the book, which collects work by more than sixty women cartoonists including Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, MariNaomi, Liana Finck and Ebony Flowers.
- - Trina Robbins speaks about her life and about Lily Renee with Sandra Scheller.. Trina Robbins talks with Sandra Scheller about her own career in comics and her book on Lily Renee, the Viennese Jewish refugee who drew for Fiction House, touching on the Holocaust and on convention culture.
- - Zooming the Pandemic - Comic Book Edition - A Special Series of Interviews for VanCAF 2020. Publisher Deni Loubert interviews cartoonist Mary Fleener by video call for a Vancouver festival held remotely, covering Fleener's cubist-influenced drawing, her autobiographical stories, and her working life as a cartoonist.
- - Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age by Trina Robbins flip-through!. Flapper Queens gathers women who drew newspaper cartoons in the 1920s, a volume Trina Robbins assembled before her death in April 2024, turned page by page.
- - Aline Kominsky-Crumb Interview: Hanging Out Your Dirty Laundry. Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who died in November 2022, describes moving to San Francisco in the 1970s and joining the women's collective behind the first comic book drawn entirely by women.
- - Trina Robbins Biographical Interview Part-2 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson | ComicBook Historians. Trina Robbins, who died in April 2024, picks up her account from 1985, when she turned from drawing toward writing the history of women in comics.
- - Noomin on anthologies. The editor of Twisted Sisters speaks on a Small Press Expo panel about anthology publishing, two years before her death.
- - Drawing Power with Diane Noomin, Carta Monir, Ebony Flowers and Joyce Farmer. Diane Noomin edited Drawing Power, an anthology of women's accounts of sexual violence and survival, and appears with contributors Carta Monir, Joyce Farmer and Ebony Flowers.
- - Sunday Funnies 02/28/21 Trina Robbins!. Trina Robbins, who died in April 2024, describes what being a woman reading and drawing comics was like across the decades she worked in them.
- - CXC 2021 - Life Underground: Comix With Roberta Gregory, Trina Robbins, & Robert Triptow. Roberta Gregory, Trina Robbins and Robert Triptow sit together and recall their years in underground comix, concentrating on gay and queer titles and on the cartoonists around them who worked in that corner of the scene. Recorded as a panel at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus in 2021.
- - Doucet in 2022. The Quebec author photographed the year she received the Grand Prix at Angouleme, the second woman to do so.
- - CLASSIC Sunday FUNnies | An Interview with Trina Robbins. Trina Robbins, who died in April 2024, is interviewed at length by Randy Zimmerman and Daphne Lage about her work in comics and comix.
- - Alex Graham and Phoebe Gloeckner discuss "Dog Biscuits". Alex Graham discusses Dog Biscuits with Phoebe Gloeckner, a book serialised through the 2020 lockdown in Seattle and following a failing shop and the people working in it.
- - Comics Roundtable With Thomas Yeates, Trina Robbins, Steve Leialoha and Dan Brereton. Trina Robbins, who died in April 2024, sits on a StocktonCon panel with Thomas Yeates, Steve Leialoha and Dan Brereton recalling the comic book scenes they each came up in.
- - 015 Julie Doucet. Julie Doucet took the Angouleme Grand Prix in 2022 and marked her refusal to return to comics with Time Zone J, published by Drawn and Quarterly and by L'Association in French as Suicide Total.
- - Phoebe Gloeckner, October 15th, 2024. Phoebe Gloeckner, author of A Child's Life and The Diary of a Teenage Girl, is interviewed by Austin English about work that draws directly on her adolescence.
- - Tour the Exhibit: Write It Down, Draw It Out with Carol Tyler. Carol Tyler guides a walkthrough of Write It Down, Draw It Out at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, moving between original boards, sketchbooks and finished pages and explaining how each autobiographical strip was built.
- - With Great Power #257... 22 Panels with Carol Tyler. Carol Tyler discusses The Ephemerata, her book on grief, and the Billy Ireland exhibition of her comics art.
- - Carol Tyler on The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief. Feb 24, 2026. Carol Tyler presents her graphic novel The Ephemerata and speaks on shaping work about grief. She recounts her 1987 debut in Weirdo, the collections The Job Thing and Late Bloomer, the Fantagraphics biography of her father Soldier's Heart, and Fab4 Mania, drawn from her 1965 diary.
- - The Diary of a Teenage Girl: Phoebe Gloeckner in Conversation. Phoebe Gloeckner is questioned by cartoonist Diana Tamblyn at Museum London about The Diary of a Teenage Girl and A Child's Life, recorded in Ontario on 8 November 2015.
- - BREAKING NEWS! FANTAGRAPHICS WINTER 2027 CATALOG of comics, graphic novels, & manga! PLUS REPRINTS!. A run-through of the announced Fantagraphics Winter 2027 list, covering forthcoming comics, graphic novels and translated manga alongside reprints, with Love and Rockets among the titles discussed title by title.