![]() ![]() “It was ‘no girls allowed.’ I had to do something.” Her male contemporaries were polite in person, she says, but never quite invited her to their parties - let alone asked her to collaborate on books with them. ![]() “Unfortunately, when I got here, I discovered that the underground comics scene was a boys’ club.” San Francisco was the mecca of the new underground comics scene,” recalls Robbins, now 77, during an interview at the artwork-filled Duboce Triangle home where she’s lived since 1975. Trina Robbins, then a young cartoonist who’d already established herself in New York while drawing comics for underground newspapers, had no sense that her path should be any different when she arrived in the Bay Area in 1970. Crumb’s gleefully filthy Zap Comix premiered in 1968 with a sensibility that worshiped free love, satire and irreverence, and cartoonists like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers’ Gilbert Shelton decided to move west to join in on the fun. ![]() Underground comics enjoyed a golden age in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and the heady, weed-scented thrum of San Francisco was its heartbeat. ![]()
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