The Complete Wimmen's Comix 

• 2016 
• HC 
• Wimmen's Comix 
• Fantagraphics publications HC 

7955563

Comic Books

The Complete Wimmen's Comix

Fleener, Mary, Gloeckner, Phoebe, Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, Robbins, Trina, Seda, Dori, Tyler, Carole

2016

Hard cover in box

First edition of a reissue

Coloured

978-1-60699-898-4

728

18.0 x 27.9 cm

Album, Box, Collection

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, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, 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.