An Evening with Trina Robbins

Wednesday April 27, 2011 @ 7:30pm

Tickets $10 member, $20 non-member

(admission includes a signed limited edition print by Trina Robbins)

Limited seating advance purchase required www.robbins.eventbrite.com

Join the ToonSeum in welcoming acclaimed writer, artist and herstorian Trina Robbins as she discusses her career and the history of women in comics, including the latest ToonSeum exhibit, Brenda Starr: The Art of Dale Messick.

For over 30 years, Robbins has been writing comics and graphic novels, translating shojo manga, lecturing, and offering her unique and insightful criticism on comics and culture. Robbins became a key figure in the underground comix scene in the 1970's, publishing the all-women It Ain't Me, Babe and Wimmen's Comix magazines. Robbins has drawn Wonder Woman, published volumes of influential books and essays, and created the popular Go Girl! series with Anne Timmons.

Robbins, a long time fan of Dale Messick, considers the artist to be one of the most important cartoonists of the twentieth century. "Dale Messick's work is extremely significant to women cartoonists, and to women in general," Robbins has said. "Brenda Starr was incredibly popular and well drawn, yet Dale was not accepted in the male world of cartoonists. Both she and Brenda persevered."

Messick, who died in 2005 at the age of 98, wrote and drew Brenda Starr for over 40 years before handing the strip over to understudy Ramona Fradon with the insistence that the strip would continue to be produced exclusively by women.

This event will be the final chance to see the Brenda Starr: The Art of Dale Messick exhibit. Ms. Robbins will conclude the lecture with a Q&A and book signing.