Trina Robbins, Girl Fight Comics issue 1 cover (The Print Mint 1972)

Sorry Lucas Museum, this historic cover is coming to my collection rather than your museum (you can borrow it whenever you want of course, just ask :)

The comic was done entirely by Trina Robbins. She did this after having done a year in college and having been in New York City and having worked in fashion and contributed to comics with the East Village Other, or EVO. Robbins first contributed to a EVO comic tabloid called Gothic Blimpworks. Being one of two women who worked at this publication and only being referred to a dressmaker until she ceased work in that field, she then began work at the feminist underground newspaper, It Ain’t Me, Babe, from which she established an all-woman comic book under the same name.

Girl Fight Comics was an additional channel for her to dedicate comics to stories of only women as a way both to establish herself and say some of the things she wanted to say since she was denied the chance by men.

Some of the feminist symbols within the story that Robbins included can be seen in the massive penis statue in “Speed Queen and the Freudians” to the use of the mythological Amazons in the series of “She” within the comic book.

After Girls Fight, Trina and other women began work on Wimmen's/Wimmin's Comix as an anthology of underground women's comix work.