I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.
Trina RobbinsDisney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.
Trina RobbinsIn the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.
Trina RobbinsToday, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward.
Trina Robbins