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- Birth nameTrina Perlson
- Trina Robbins was born on August 17, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Funny Ladies (1991), No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics (2021) and Independent Lens (1999). She died on April 10, 2024 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Robbins was a Special Guest of the 1977 San Diego Comic-Con, when she was presented with an Inkpot Award. She won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A., a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow.
- Robbins was an active member of science fiction fandom in the 1950s and 1960s. Her illustrations appeared in science fiction fanzines like the Hugo-nominated Habakkuk.
- In 2002, Robbins was given the Special John Buscema Haxtur Award, a recognition for comics published in Spain.
- Robbins left New York for San Francisco in 1970, where she worked at the feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe. The same year, she produced the first all-woman comic book, the one-shot It Ain't Me, Babe Comix with fellow female artist Barbara "Willy" Mendes.
- She was an early participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the first female artists in that movement.
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