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Name three women cartoonists who worked from 1900 to 1950. Okay, just name one. Couldn't do it? Neither could I until reading a new, invaluable book, "The Great Women Cartoonists," ($24.95; Watson-Guptill Publications; 150 pp.; softcover), by Trina Robbins. Concentrating mostly on comicstrip and comicbook artists of the last century, Robbins uncovers the secret herstory that got left out from all the other millennial surveys...
Like other American women after the war many of the cartoonists lost their jobs, just barely managing to find work in the burgeoning romance comicbook genre. By the late 1960s, inspired by, but excluded from, the all-male "underground" scene, women-centric comix began appearing simultaneously with the likes of "Ms." magazine. Finally, the last chapter provides an excellent primer on current women-created books, though it stops short of being a critical survey...
...sure is tough. I feel genuinely bad for women who want buy comix and have to go into those horrifying comicbook stores hawking all that garish adolescent male art-swill. (I shop online to avoid them all.) There can be no doubt that part of comix' continuing marginalization has to do with past and continued alienation of half the creative force and half the consumer force. Trina Robbins "The Great Women Cartoonists" makes a tremendous contribution to rediscovering a fading history, with hopes of changing the future...
...Peanuts: The Art of Charles Schulz" can be found at any regular bookstore and smarter comicbook stores...
...Acme Novelty Library #15" can be found at better comicbook stores and the publisher's website...