Everyone in Trina's family had a favorite sport. Everyone except Trina. "This has to change," Trina confided to her dog, Al. She picked up Al's fetch toy and hurled it across the front yard. "I need a sport of my own!" Al...

A couple of summers ago, Trina Schart Hyman was walking with her dog on the dirt road by her house when a bear came out of the shrubbery. She told it sternly to back off, and it did. She told cancer...

Trina Robbins [is] one of the most challenging writers and lyrical draftsmen now active in underground comics…. (p. 737) Trina's stories often involve strong, independent and very attractive women who are set upon but ultimately victorious over viciously hostile men. In "Speed Queen Among the Freudians," for instance, which appeared in the first issue of Girl Fight, a solitary woman space traveller, upon arriving on Freuda, a planet inhabited solely by white men who worship a gia...

It took me a couple of years after I first discovered her (San Francisco Comix Book #2, "The Tiger's Revenge") to appreciate Trina Robbins's comix work. For a long time I ignored it. It wasn't the relative crudity of her artwork—at that time a lot of comix artists were crude—but something else: her working with comics material I thought at the time I'd outgrown. Trina's Golden Age tributes, comix consciousness meshed with comics style, seemed al...

I've always enjoyed Trina Robbins' artwork and style. It is a happy medium polished overground art and on the other side of the spectrum, those trashy, poorly-drawn comix I can't stand to look at…. [Scarlett Pilgrim follows] Scarlett, a San Francisco "working girl," and an older, retired hooker named Dollface, who both get involved as pawns in some C.I.A. derring-do in a Middle-East-type foreign country, getting tangled in a political revolution. For entertainment, ...