8 Quotes by Trina Robbins

The storyline also changed with the times, and went from Marla Drake held captive by Nazis in the war years, to mad scientists, gangsters and kidnapping after the war. Miss Fury's adventures were part pulp, part film noir.

Once there was a time when more girls than boys read comics, a time when comics for girls sold in the millions, outnumbering every other kind of comic book.And it all started with Archie.

It’s really sad that Wonder Woman is, she’s really a slave. She belongs to DC. She’s not a living person. And so she’s at their mercy, and she’s at the mercy of whoever writes her and whoever draws her.

Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

I am proud of having drawn the first comic about a lesbian – and it didn’t even occur to me that I was drawing a first. I just wanted to tell the story of my roommate.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn’t work ’cause I wasn’t a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.

I always drew. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.

I went to art school, but I didn’t last because in those days you couldn’t take comics as a course. And they weren’t even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.