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Books by Trina Robbins






Lily Renée, Escape Artist
From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
by Trina Robbins, Anne Timmons, Margaret Oh, Studio C10, Mo Oh
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by Graphic Universe
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-7613-8114-3, ISBN: 0-7613-8114-7

"In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily's journey. She must escape many more times―from servitude, h ..."






Gladys Parker(1st Edition)
A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion
by Trina Robbins, Gladys Parker, Eileen Sabrina Herman
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Hermes Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61345-181-6, ISBN: 1-61345-181-4

"Hermes Press is coming to slay the fashion industry- with some HERstory! Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion explores the history behind Mopsy and her creator Gladys Parker! This beautiful book will also provide a rarely seen collection of Mopsy stories and many of Parker’s earlier strips. Cartoonist Gladys Parker was unique in comics. As with Frida Kahlo, it was impossible to tell where her art left off and its cr ..."






Won't Back Down
by Trina Robbins
Published 2024
ISBN-13: 978-0-86719-925-3, ISBN: 0-86719-925-3

"We're fighting back as best we can, with pens and brushes, paper and ink, and have produced a pro-choice anthology: Won't Back Down, featuring the work of over 30 artists, writers, inkers, and colorists, and we're giving the profits to ..."






Elizabeth Blackwell(1st Edition)
America's First Woman Doctor
by Trina Robbins, Cynthia Martin, Anne Timmons, Barnett Iii, Illustrator-Charles, Olson/ Nathan
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2006 by Capstone Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7368-9660-3, ISBN: 0-7368-9660-0

"Discover the brilliant life Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, in this powerful graphic novel. With comic book-style illustrations and short, engaging sentences, this biography will inspire, entertain, and inform young readers about an individual who made a significant contribution to society. This must-have graphic novel includes a bibliography, extended reading list, glossary, and furth ..."






Tomorrow's Heirlooms(1st Edition)
Women's Fashions of the '60s & '70s (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Trina Robbins
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by Schiffer Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-7643-0354-8, ISBN: 0-7643-0354-6

"Polyester's popularity in the 1960s and 1970s ushered in distinctive new styles in colorful print designs. Enthusiastic descriptions are given for hundreds of cheerful dresses, jumpsuits, bellbottoms, hotpants, and disco clothes. The social issues of the times are described to help interpret the moods that helped to popularize these new styles. You will delight in the variety displayed, from the pretty and conservative designs of the ea ..."






The Collected Neil the Horse(1st Edition)
by Katherine Collins, Trina Robbins, Arn Saba, David Roman, Barbara Rausch
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2017 by Conundrum Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-77262-015-3, ISBN: 1-77262-015-7

""Delighted at your continuing Neil the Horse efforts . . . and I'm particularly enthusiastic about your continuing probe of the medium. I welcome you as a fellow explorer." --Will EisnerNeil the Horse ran for fifteen issues in the 1980s. With its tagline, "Making the World Safe for Musical Comedy," it is the world's only musical comic book. It is a totally original hybrid influenced more by Carl Barks and Fred Astaire than by the underg ..."






Babes In Arms(1st Edition)
Women in the Comics During World War Two
by Trina Robbins, Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin, Lilly Renee, Fran Hopper
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Hermes Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61345-095-6, ISBN: 1-61345-095-8

"* During the Golden Age of comics, publishers offered titles supporting the war effort - presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts - babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting all of the axis bad guys and gave several of the most noteworthy women artists of the era opportunities to create action-packed, adventure-filled, four-color stories. * Now for the first time renowned pop-culture ..."






Sax Rohmer's Dope(1st Edition)
by Trina Robbins, Colleen Doran, C. Spike Trotman, Sax Rohmer
Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2017 by Idw Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-63140-957-8, ISBN: 1-63140-957-3

"A talented young actress becomes fatally ensnared in London's mysterious and glittery drug culture of the early 20th century. Trina Robbins' brilliant graphic novel adaptation of Sax Rohmer's sensational 1919 novel, Dope, is consdered by many (including Trina herself) to be her best work ever as an illustrator. Inspired by true events, Dope was both the first novel to speak openly about the world's international drug trade and the first ..."






Forbidden City
The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (The Hampton Press Communication Series)
by Trina Robbins
Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2009 by Hampton Press Inc
ISBN-13: 978-1-57273-947-5, ISBN: 1-57273-947-9

"From the late 1930's to the early 1960's, Chinese nightclubs fourished in San Francisco's Chinatown. They were the first, and in those days the only venues for talented Asians who sang or danced professionally. Asian entertainers came from everywhere to perform in Chinatown, and they all found a home in the Chinese Nightclubs. For publicity purposes, many of the entertainers were compared to famous Caucasian stars. They were billed as " ..."






A Match Made in Heaven
by Trina Robbins, Yuko Geneviev Ota, Xian Nu Studio
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2013 by Graphic Universe Tm
ISBN-13: 978-1-4677-0732-9, ISBN: 1-4677-0732-5

"Aspiring comic book artist Morning Glory Conroy already has too much to juggle at her San Francisco high school--mean girls, inconsiderate cliques, wannabe gangbangers--without the complication of falling for new student Gabriel. Glory's best friend, Julia, was interested in him first, and if it weren't for Julia's deteriorating home life, Glory wouldn't have had a chance to get Gabriel to herself. But does he count as a real boyfriend ..."






The Big Flush
Book 4 (Chicagoland Detective Agency)
by Trina Robbins, Tyler Page
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2012 by Graphic Universe
ISBN-13: 978-0-8225-9161-0, ISBN: 0-8225-9161-8

"Nevermore to be Chicagoland detective, My teen heart broken! --Megan Yamamura, poet with three strikes The Chicagoland Detective Agency won't be the same without her. --Raf Hernandez, haunted genius Holy Simoleons! We need a dame s touch. --Bradley, good boy FLOOSH --john, appliance Poor Megan--history's repeating itself. She's been booted from Stepford Prep, and her father is sending her to visit Pine Lake Academy . . . a boarding scho ..."






Night of the Living Dogs
by Trina Robbins, Illustrator-Tyler Page
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN-13: 978-0-7613-4616-6, ISBN: 0-7613-4616-3

"Yes, Chicagoland is an odd place. But the word is out that Megan, Raf, and Raf's talking dog Bradley are the team to go to when weirder things than usual start happening. Their Chicagoland Detective Agency takes danger in hand (and paw) to find a mysteriously missing puppy and an even more mysterious pack of dogs that only shows up once a month. Bradley's nose knows from the start that this is more than a simple case of stray pets...an ..."






Lily Renee, Escape Artist
From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
by Trina Robbins, Anne Timmons, Mo Oh
Library, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by 21St Century
ISBN-13: 978-0-7613-6010-0, ISBN: 0-7613-6010-7

"In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily's journey. She must escape many more times--from servitude, hard ..."






The Drained Brains Caper
Book 1 (Chicagoland Detective Agency)
by Trina Robbins, Tyler Page
Paperback, 60 Pages, Published 2010 by Graphic Universe
ISBN-13: 978-0-7613-5635-6, ISBN: 0-7613-5635-5

"Raf knows Megan is trouble from the moment she steps into his mom's pet food store asking for a tarantula. But there's one thing you can count on in Chicagoland: weird things happen several times a day. Megan is a vegetarian, manga-reading haiku writer. She definitely doesn't fit in at Stepford Academy, her new summer school. The other students are happy to be in class. Too happy. And everyone looks and acts exactly alike. That's weird ..."






Freedom Songs
A Tale of the Underground Railroad (Historical Fiction)
by Trina Robbins, Jason Millet
Library, 56 Pages, Published 2008 by Stone Arch Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4342-0445-5, ISBN: 1-4342-0445-6

"Fourteen-year-old Sarah is a slave in Maryland during the 1850s. She knows her only chance at freedom is to head North, where slavery is illegal. To get there, though, Sarah needs help from members of the Underground Railroad. But who can she trust?"






Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century(Updated)
by Trina Robbins
Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 2001 by Mcfarland & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-1151-1, ISBN: 0-7864-1151-1

"The art and commentary of Nell Brinkley (1886-1944) ran in American newspapers from 1907 through the 1930s. At the height of her popularity, "The Brinkley Girl" appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies and inspired poems and popular songs. Brinkley's name even sold hair curlers, and her delicate pen work influenced later women cartoonists. As early as 1913, Brinkley was drawing working women, from farm and factory workers to those pursuing care ..."






Florence Nightingale(1st Edition)
Lady with the Lamp (Graphic Biographies)
by Trina Robbins, Anne Timmons
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2007 by Capstone Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7368-7902-6, ISBN: 0-7368-7902-1

"INDEX Crimean War , 14 , 20 , 26 , 27 Nightingale , Frances ( mother ) , 6 , 8 – 9 , 11 diseases , 14 , 21 , 26 , 27 , 28 Nightingale , Parthenope doctors , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , ( sister ) , 4 , 5 , 8 – 9 , 11 23 , 24 Nightingale , William ( father ) , 4 , 6 , 9 ..."






Bessie Coleman(1st Edition)
Daring Stunt Pilot (Graphic Biographies)
by Trina Robbins, Ken Steacy
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2007 by Capstone Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7368-7903-3, ISBN: 0-7368-7903-X

"In this compelling graphic novel, follow the amazing life of Bessie Coleman, who became the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. With comic book-style illustrations and engaging, easy-to-read text, this biography will inspire, entertain, and inform young readers about an individual who made a significant contribution to society. An additional information section provides key facts and further understanding, making thi ..."






Go Girl, Vol. 3(1st Edition)
Robots Gone Wild!
by Trina Robbins, Anne Timmons, Chris Warner
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2006 by Dark Horse
ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-409-8, ISBN: 1-59307-409-3

"Two feature-length stories in one volume! Video games can get too realistic, as the flying teenager, Go Girl! discovers in "Prisoners of the Machine," when she and her friends find themselves trapped inside a computer, menaced by giant anime-robots! And in "Double Trouble," Go Girl!'s arch-enemies create a robot that looks just like her, except that it has the mind of a master criminal! How can our heroine convince the cops that she di ..."






Read 180 Stage C Macbeth
by Trina Robbins, William Shakespeare
Paperback, 53 Pages, Published 2002 by Scholastic
ISBN-13: 978-0-439-12341-9, ISBN: 0-439-12341-0

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