Comics legend Trina Robbins has by no means backed down from a combat, and her newest comics anthology is taking on the Supreme Court’s latest determination blocking folks from controlling their very own well being care. Won’t Back Down is an anthology by a various group of gifted multi-gendered artists that explores the impression that latest Supreme Court choices have had on entry to protected and authorized abortion. Contributors embrace Lee Marrs, Joëlle Jones, Leah Williams, Chrissy Williams, Alison Sampson, and lots of others (see an entire record at the finish of this submit.)
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From private tales to daring statements of defiance, this assortment spans a variety of approaches to this difficulty. Robbins instructed The Beat: “1940s woman cartoonist Lily Renee was a Viennese refugee from the Nazis. She fought back the only way she could — with pen and ink on paper. The heroine she drew—Senorita Rio—fought the Nazis in a comic book. In my anthology, Won’t Back Down, the writers and artists fight the rogue Supreme Court the way we can, with ink and paper. Everyone fights in a different way, but we all fight back.”
Robbins’ lengthy profession as a cartoonist, activist and “herstorian” spans almost fifty years. She has written and drawn comics from Honey West to Barbie, and was the first girl to attract Wonder Woman. Her books The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913–1940 (Fantagraphics, 2009) and Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury (IDW Publishing, 2011) have been nominated for Eisner awards and Harvey awards. Her all-ages graphic novel Chicagoland Detective Agency: The Drained Brains Caper (Graphic Universe, 2010), the first in a six-book sequence, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her most up-to-date books are Gladys Parker, a life in comics, a ardour for style (Hermes Press , 2022) and the Eisner profitable The Flapper Queens (Fantagraphics, 2020) In 2013, she was voted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Here’s a have a look at the contents, and a listing of contributors
Miscarry by Lee Marrs
Force Birth Nation by Eve Furchgott
A Lonely Childhood by Grace Gordon, Joelle Barreto, Grace Desmarais, and Isabell Struble
Alison Sampson
Amy Chase
Anina Bennett
Barbara Kaalberg
Barbara Kesel
Bridgit Connell
Brigid Alverson
Carrie Tupper
Casey Gilly
Cat Mihos
Chynna Clugston Flores
Clayton Moore
Dani Colman
Dave McCaig
Deanna Soukiasian
Dee Cunniffe
Domo Stanton
Emily Cohen
Gene Ha
Grace Desmarais
Grace Gordon
Isabell Struble
Janet Harvey
Janice Chiang
Jennifer Camper
Jeremy Whitley
Jessica Balboni
Jill Thompson
Joanne S
Joelle Barreto
Joyce Chin
Kate Charlesworth
Lee Marrs
Marguerite Sauvage
Mariah Huehner
Peannlui
Robert Triptow
Rori Business
Ryan Oakley
Sabrina Jones
Sabs Cooper
Sayra Begum
Sharon Rudahl
Stephanie Cooke
Taylor Esposito
Tess Fowler
Thomas Orzechowski
Tony Parker
Trina Robbins
Yanick Paquette
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