It Ain't Me, Babe (comics)

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Cover of the first print run, showing Olive Oyl, Little Lulu, Wonder Woman, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Mary Marvel and Elsie the Cow, fists raised, and the words "women's liberation."

It Ain't Me, Babe (1970) is the first comic book produced entirely by women. It was co-produced by Trina Robbins and Barbara "Willy" Mendes, and published by Ron Turner at Last Gasp comics.[1] The staff from a feminist newspaper in Berkeley, California, also called It Ain't Me, Babe, contributed.[2]

Only one issue of the comic was produced. The first print run in July 1970 sold 20,000 copies, each of them 36 pages long; the second and third sold 10,000 each.[3] The cover of the first printing featured Olive Oyl, Little Lulu, Wonder Woman, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Mary Marvel and Elsie the Cow on a blue-and-fuscia background with the words "women's liberation"; the second and third covers featured the same characters on a dark-blue-and-green background.[3][4] Robbins went on to set up the Wimmen's Comix Collective in 1972.[5]

It Ain't Me, Babe will be reprinted in The Complete Wimmen's Comix, scheduled for release in February 2016.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ Lisa Hix, "Women Who Conquered the Comics World", Collectors Weekly, 15 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Trina Robbins, "Wimmen's Studies", comixgrrrlz.pl, 25 May 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Underground Comix Collection", Comix Joint.
  4. ↑ Arie Kaplan, Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!, Chicago Review Press, 2006, p. 84.
  5. ↑ Paul Williams, "Questions of 'Contemporary Women's Comics,'" in Paul Williams, James Lyons (eds.), The Rise of the American Comics Artist, University Press of Mississippi, 2010, p. 138.
  6. ↑ http://www.fantagraphics.com/completewimmenscomix/
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