![]() ![]() Robbins is extolled for her influence on the underground comix movement – especially as one of the few women in a field dominated by men. “A couple of days later, I drew a kind of proto-comic to express my gratitude and shoved it under the door,” she said. The office was empty except for its publisher, Allen Katzman, who talked them down. ![]() High on LSD, she and her boyfriend found themselves outside the office of the East Village Other, a beloved hippy underground newspaper. ![]() It was an acid trip that opened the door. A trip worth rememberingĪnd indeed, that’s where, in her mid-20s, her career as a cartoonist started. Nonetheless, by the time she entered high school, she had one goal in mind: move to the Village and be a bohemian. Robbins insists she did not come from a dysfunctional family. At home, she wrote and illustrated her own comics and dreamt of publication. Robbins, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., recalls taking her weekly, 10-cent allowance to the neighborhood candy store and after studying the week’s selection, buying any comic that featured young girls and women. Fortunately, Robbins’ family was not among them. That’s what many parents believed in the 1940s when Trina Robbins, now 81, was growing up. Reading comic books leads straight to delinquency. ![]()
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