Fantagraphics

Complete Wimmen's Comix

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Fantagraphics

Complete Wimmen's Comix

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This two-volume, slipcased set collects two decades of the groundbreaking underground/alternative anthology Wimmen’s Comix.

In the late ’60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium ― but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen’s Comix. Within two years the Wimmen’s Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading public, and would go on to publish some of the most talented women cartoonists in America ― Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Dori Seda, Phoebe Gloeckner, and many others. In its twenty year run, the women of Wimmen’s tackled subjects the guys wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: abortion, menstruation, masturbation, castration, lesbians, witches, murderesses, and feminists. Most issues of Wimmen’s Comix have been long out of print, so it’s about time these pioneering cartoonists’ work received their due.

Presented as a gorgeous two-volume slipcased set, The Complete Wimmen’s Comix includes the ground-breaking 1970 one-shot, It Ain’t Me, Babe, the very first all-woman comic book ever published. Edited with an introduction by Trina Robbins. Black & white illustrations throughout

Editor: Trina Robbins
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Pages: 728pp
Size: 8.5 x 10.75 x 3
Notes: 2-volume set, slipcase
Release Date: March 7, 2016
ISBN: 978-1606998984