New Releases by Trina Robbins

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 creator began. Parker mixed fashion and comics and created classic characters that mimicked her sense of fashion. In fact, Parker was an exact double for her ink-and-paper creation, Mopsy. Tarpe Mills and Dale Messick both dressed to kill and included paper dolls featuring their heroines'' chic 1940s wardrobes. Tarpe Mills and Lily Renee were fashion models before they drew comics. But only Gladys Parker (and one other)* was a fashion designer with a successful line of clothing while at the same time drawing an equally successful comic strip. Parker''s dresses bearing the Gladys Parker label were sold at her own New York shop and at high-end department stores across the country - and she also found the time to costume Hollywood movies and the beauties that starred in them! Who better to chronicle the story of Gladys Parker than comics herstorian Trina Robbins, who in the 1960s designed clothes for hippies and rock stars out of her East Village boutique, while drawing underground comix?

Showcasing stories from some of the comics'' greatest female creators, this anthology features stories that range from mainstream adventures to hilarious comic shorts to heart-wrenching autobiographical stories. Originally published as Sexy Chix in 2006, this new edition is presented in a new, larger size! Featuring over a dozen stories by top talents like New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, Eisner Award-winning illustrator Jill Thompson, Scary Godmother creator Colleen Doran, DC Comics creators Gail Simone and Joëlle Jones, and many more!

Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning Trina Robbins introduces you to Eleanor Schorer, who started her career in the teens as a flowery art nouveau Nell Brinkley imitator but, by the ''20s, was drawing bold and outrageous art deco illustrations; Edith Stevens, who chronicled the fashion trends, hairstyles, and social manners of the ''20s and ''30s in the pages of The Boston Globe; and Virginia Huget, possibly the flappiest of the Flapper Queens, whose girls, with their angular elbows and knees, seemed to always exist in a euphoric state of Charleston.

"Trina Robbins'' graphic novel adaptation of Tanith Lee''s timeless science fiction romance novel THE SILVER METAL LOVER. The story centers around a young girl, in the far flung future, who falls in love with a robot. This is the first and only reprint, since it''s initial publication in 1985."--Publisher.

A talented young actress becomes fatally ensnared in London''s mysterious and glittery drug culture of the early 20th century. Trina Robbins'' comic book adaptation of Sax Rohmer''s sensational 1919 novel. DOPE was both the first novel to speak openly about the world''s international drug trade, and the first story to center around the death of a celebrity by drug overdose. As for the art, it is considered by many (including Trina herself) to be her best work ever as an illustrator.

Born on the cusp of WWII in 1938, at a time when other little girls dreamed of being nurses and secretaries, Trina Robbins’s ambition was to be a bohemian; and indeed she did. She chronicles a life of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll — and comics — in Last Girl Standing. Robbins describes her upbringing in Queens, New York, reading comics through her childhood in the 1940s; visiting the EC offices and becoming part of SF fandom (dating Harlan Ellison at age 16); and posing nude for men’s magazines in the 1950s; living in the Village, over her own boutique where she made clothes for and interacted with rock royalty like David Crosby, Donovan, Cass Elliot; her close relationship with Paul Williams; entering the orbit of underground cartoonists like Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb, Vaughn Bodé, and Bill Griffith, when she started contributing comics to The East Village Other; and, in the ’70s, moving to San Francisco, contending with the phallocentric underground scene, marrying Kim Deitch, co-founding Wimmen’s Comix, and being invited into Felch Comics (she declined); her work for the National Lampoon, Marvel Comics, and Eclipse in the 1980s; and her crisis as a cartoonist and transformation into an historian and lecturer in the ’90s and 2000s. From science fiction to the Sunset Strip, from New York’s underground newspapers to San Francisco’s underground comix: Trina Robbins broke the rules and broke the law. From dressing Mama Cass to being pelted with jelly babies as she helped photograph the Rolling Stones’s first US tour, from drunken New York nights spent with Jim Morrison to producing the very first all-woman comic book, this former Lady of the Canyon takes no prisoners in this heavily illustrated memoir.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! 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. Megan is determined to dig into Stepford''s secrets, but soon she''s in way too deep. Raf may be the only human being she knows who can help. But with zombified students, very mad scientists, and the school psychiatrist on their trail, they''re going to need a whole lot more help. We did say that Chicagoland is weird. . .

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! 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 . . . and a whole lot more than a stray case of full-moon transmogrification! Will high tech and haikus be enough to save them from the world''s worst case of doggy breath?

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A friend has vanished, a mummy''s amulet is missing, and there''s a weirdo out there looking for human brains and hearts. The Chicagoland Detective Agency—run by Megan, Raf, and his talking dog Bradley—have more than enough cases on their hands (and paws). But where to start? Megan''s too busy for private-detecting. Her haikus won her tickets to meet the drop-dead gorgeous rock star Sun D''Arc. Raf is sure that Sun is too good not to be really bad. He must be involved in one of their cases. And what about Sun''s suspiciously familiar manager? Or the pushy new girl at school? Can Bradley, dog genius, pull his team together and sniff out what suspect goes with which case?

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Help! Just before the science fair, a set of magic potions disappear from Luna''s locker! The Chicagoland Detective Agency takes up the young witch''s case. If Raf, Megan, and Raf''s talking dog Bradley can handle space aliens, mummies, and ghosts, this case is child''s play! But when a potion goes awry and a hooded stalker and a wannabe master criminal intervene, the case takes a wild turn into a full-blown catastrophe. Will love-smitten supersleuth Megan and jet-pack inventor Raf be able to straighten out this mess in time? Or will Bradley''s nose save the day once more?

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Chicagoland can''t get much weirder than this: Raf, Megan, and Bradley have been abducted by aliens from the planet Fnarf III! And not just your ordinary, everyday aliens, either. These extraterrestrials are intelligent canines, as smart as Bradley, who come from a world where dogs rule and humans drool. And they have a case Bradley can really sink his teeth into: the Fnarfian princess has gone missing, and the space-dogs need help from planet Earth''s home team—the Chicagoland Detective Agency—to track her down. After uncovering zombies, mummies, were-mutts, and ghosts, is the Chicagoland Detective Agency up to the job of investigating their first interstellar caper?

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 historian Trina Robbins assembles comic book stories by artists Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin, Lilly Renee, and Fran Hopper together with insightful commentary and loads of documentary extras to create the definitive book chronicling the work of these important Golden Age artists. This magnificent art book offers page-after-page of good girl action!

Diplomat Diana Prince meets _The Man Behind the Curtain_ when a dictator tries to fulfill his daughter_s final wish.

The thrilling conclusion of this untold tale of the Amazing Amazon!

A daring escape from Atomia''s clutches-but Suzie is a rotten apple on Paradise Island!

Queens Solala and Leila ally themselves with Wonder Woman, but there''s a traitor in their midst.

Federal agent Diana Prince joins a Congressman and his aides to investigate a cult. ''Reverend Mike Loves You,'' but can you trust his plans for the future?

Wonder Woman is put to the ultimate test in this series of adventures from an array of comics'' finest talents, including CARLA SPEED McNEIL (FINDER), JASON BADOWER (THE FLASH: SEASON ZERO), BARBARA RANDALL KESEL (HAWK AND DOVE), ADAM BEECHEN (BATMAN BEYOND), JOSH ELDER (SCRIBBLENAUTS UNMASKED: A CRISIS OF IMAGINATION), JAMAL IGLE (SUPERGIRL), JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA-LÓPEZ (ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN), TRINA ROBBINS (HONEY WEST) and many more! As Wonder Woman, Princess Diana of Themyscira is a warrior whose skills are surpassed only by her compassion and her desire to spread peace throughout the world. Unfortunately, there are those who would see this ambassador, and her message of harmony, wiped from existence. Ares, the god of war, fuels civil unrest within the Central African Republic of Itari. The end-bringer Typhon threatens to scorch the earth unless Wonder Woman and Poison Ivy can set aside their mutual animosity. And in front of high-schoolers, Diana must somehow best Superwoman without harming the villain''s unborn child. A legal right to rehabilitation makes the Cheetah more lethal to her own family than her arch-nemesis, and a visit to Gotham pits the Amazon against several of the city''s heroes and villains-all so that she may rescue the abducted offspring of the mother of monsters, Echidna.

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 school. This could mean the end of the Chicagoland Detective Agency! Raf and Bradley come along to get a sniff at the new school, but when Megan ducks into a restroom marked do not enter and Raf takes a sip from an old fountain, school becomes the least of their problems. Something spooky is knocking around in the pipes, and now it has its hooks in them. Have Raf and Megan really been taken over by a ghost from a hundred years ago? Can Bradley dig up the mystery that''s dogged Pine Lake Academy for a century? What deeply buried dastardly deeds will bubble to the surface?

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. Megan is determined to dig into Stepford''s secrets, but soon she''s in way too deep. Raf may be the only human being she knows who can help. But with zombified students, very mad scientists, and the school psychiatrist on their trail, they''re going to need a whole lot more help. We did say that Chicagoland is weird. . .

A friend has vanished, a mummy''s amulet is missing, and there''s a weirdo out there looking for human brains and hearts. The Chicagoland Detective Agency—run by Megan, Raf, and his talking dog Bradley—have more than enough cases on their hands (and paws). But where to start? Megan''s too busy for private-detecting. Her haikus won her tickets to meet the drop-dead gorgeous rock star Sun D''Arc. Raf is sure that Sun is too good not to be really bad. He must be involved in one of their cases. And what about Sun''s suspiciously familiar manager? Or the pushy new girl at school? Can Bradley, dog genius, pull his team together and sniff out what suspect goes with which case?

Chicagoland can''t get much weirder than this: Raf, Megan, and Bradley have been abducted by aliens from the planet Fnarf III! And not just your ordinary, everyday aliens, either. These extraterrestrials are intelligent canines, as smart as Bradley, who come from a world where dogs rule and humans drool. And they have a case Bradley can really sink his teeth into: the Fnarfian princess has gone missing, and the space-dogs need help from planet Earth''s home team—the Chicagoland Detective Agency—to track her down. After uncovering zombies, mummies, were-mutts, and ghosts, is the Chicagoland Detective Agency up to the job of investigating their first interstellar caper?

"Powerpuff Girls created by Craig McCracken."

Trina Robbins has spent the last thirty years recording the accomplishments of a century of women cartoonists, and Pretty in Ink is her ultimate book, a revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists, with more color illustrations than ever before, and with some startling new discoveries (such as a Native American woman cartoonist from the 1940s who was also a Corporal in the women’s army, and the revelation that a cartoonist included in all of Robbins’s previous histories was a man!) In the pages of Pretty in Ink you’ll find new photos and correspondence from cartoonists Ethel Hays and Edwina Dumm, and the true story of Golden Age comic book star Lily Renee, as intriguing as the comics she drew. Although the comics profession was dominated by men, there were far more women working in the profession throughout the 20th century than other histories indicate, and they have flourished in the 21st. Robbins not only documents the increasing relevance of women throughout the 20th century, with mainstream creators such as Ramona Fradon and Dale Messick and alternative cartoonists such as Lynda Barry, Carol Tyler, and Phoebe Gloeckner, but the latest generation of women cartoonists―Megan Kelso, Cathy Malkasian, Linda Medley, and Lilli Carré, among many others. Robbins is the preeminent historian of women comic artists; forget her previous histories: Pretty in Ink is her most comprehensive volume to date.

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, hardship, and danger. Will she find a way to have her own sort of revenge on the Nazis? Follow the story of a brave girl who becomes an artist of heroes and a true pioneer in comic books.

Aspiring comic book artist Morning Glory Conroy is delighted to be in a relationship with new student Gabriel, but her best friend Julia needs her, Gabriel''s cousin Luci keeps causing trouble, and other crises keep arising, making her wonder if the heavens are against them.

Honey West: equal part Marilyn Monroe and part Mike Hammer! The first woman of private eye fiction, and the first woman character in the lead role of an action TV show, returns with all-new, swinging 60''s sexy and thrilling mysteries by best-selling authors Trina Robbins and Elaine Lee!

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...and a whole lot more than a stray case of full-moon transmogrification! Will high tech and haikus be enough to save them from the world''s worst case of doggy breath?

Ousted from Stepford Prep, Megan attends a prospective students event with friend Raf and talking dog Bradley at Pine Lake Academy, where Raf is possessed by the spirit of a teenaged girl from the 1910s after drinking from an old water fountain.