Blog Posts for Trina Robbins

The Unsinkable Fear of Blogging

Trina Robbins — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:32:20 -0700

I’m back! I have no idea what happened to my original blog, but one day it simply disappeared. But now we’re back up with a new server and life is good again.To catch up: :Last month found me signing copies of my Nell Brinkley book (and dressed, as close as I could manage it, like a Nell Brinkley flapper) at the Silent Film Festival at San Francisco’s own Castro theater. If you’ve never ...

Fear of Blogging Gets Good Reviews!

Trina Robbins — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:31:10 -0700

The past two days have been beautiful, with plenty of sunshine and pure blue skies, but before that the entire month of June has been gloomy, grey, foggy, cold, and windy -- in other words, a typical San Francisco Summer, and according to the weatherman, we can expect more of the same. But my heart is warm, because my Nell Brinkley book has been receiving rave reviews on the internet, from the ...

Come to my signing!

Trina Robbins — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:13:30 -0700

California Girls BooksigningCartoon Art Museum Bookstore Event: Sunday, June 14, 2009 1pm to 3pm Free and Open to the public The Cartoon Art Museum hosts artist Trina Robbins and publisher Brian Andersen on Sunday, June 14, 2009 from 1pm to 3pm in promotion of CBG Comics’ newest release, California Girls. This event is presented by the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore, and is part of its ongoing ...

At Last!

Trina Robbins — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:03 -0700

Here at last!The Brinkley Girls Cartoon Art Museum event: Thursday, May 21, 7:00-9:00pmFree and open to the publicThe Cartoon Art Museum presents The Brinkley Girls, a celebration of one of the most popular cartoonists of the early 20th century, Nell Brinkley. This retrospective, guest-curated by comics herstorian Trina Robbins, showcases over 30 lavishly illustrated newspaper tearsheets, ...

Fear of Blogging Enters the 21st Centuury

Trina Robbins — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:15:26 -0800

This morning Steve and I went to the San Francisco Civic Center to see, on the huge screen, along with a few thousand other happy San Franciscans, Barack Obama sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. The weather couldn’t have been better; skies as blue as the flag and bright sunshine. I wore my Obama T short and my Obama button and, for the first time in my life, an American flag ...

Wish they all could be...

Trina Robbins — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:24:30 -0800

Return with me now to the terrible 1980s: Reagan, enormous shoulderpads, and comics for boys only. Editors and publishers, suffering from some kind of group amnesia, insisted that girls didn’t read comics, had never read comics, so what was the point in trying to create comics for anyone but boys? Even Stan Lee, who told me that of all the comics he wrote, his favorite was Millie the Model, ...

More Fear of Blogging

Trina Robbins — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:11:30 -0700

What’s Next?
I’m always absolutely honored to be invited to take part in Litquake, San Francisco’s
annual literary festival, along with great writers and artists like Michelle Tea, Will Durst,
Jean Shinoda Bolen, Paul Madonna, Neil Gaiman and Devin Grayson, and last year I
blew it when, instead of responding to the publisher of “It’s So You,” when invited to
read my essay from ...

Fear of Blogging Goes to Canada

Trina Robbins — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:04:56 -0700

What I Did On My Summer Vacation
From August 27th through the 30th, I was a guest at the Pop Print festival, at the
university in lovely Edmonton, Canada, home of the biggest mall in the world. Not that I
saw much of lovely Edmonton (including the famous mall, which I am told contains an
entire beach, complete with real waves), aside from a quick but rewarding trip to the
Alberta art museum ...

A Midsummer's Day Blog

Trina Robbins — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:44:17 -0700

My, how time flies! I see my last blog was six months ago, so it’s time for catch up. That Nell Brinkley book is long finished and sent in to Fantagraphics; expect to see it on the shelves this December. It will be gorgeous, because Fantagraphics does a great job on their books. In the meantime, here's a link to some of Nell's earliest work on the website of the comics archives of the ...

Rainy Day Blogger

Trina Robbins — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:30:32 -0800

Outside it’s dark cold, and rainy -- in a word, miserable -- as it’s been for the last two weeks, and the San Francisco Chronicle predicts the same for at least the next week. Inside it’s almost as bad, as our 102 year-old Edwardian house has exactly one gas heater in the hall, and no insulation (They didn’t have insulation in those days) and I’m getting very tired of my cashmere ...