The Complete Wimmen's Comix

The Complete Wimmen's Comix

This two-volume, slipcased set collects two decades of the groundbreaking underground/alternative anthology Wimmens 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, Wimmens Comix. Within two years the Wimmens 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 Wimmens tackled subjects the guys wouldnt touch with a ten-foot pole: abortion, menstruation, masturbation, castration, lesbians, witches, murderesses, and feminists. Most issues of Wimmens Comix have been long out of print, so its about time these pioneering cartoonists work received their due. Presented as a gorgeous two-volume slipcased set, The Complete Wimmens Comix includes the ground-breaking 1970 one-shot, It Aint Me, Babe, the very first all-woman comic book ever published. Edited with an introduction by Trina Robbins. Black & white illustrations throughout