It Ain't Me Babe.
Robbins, Trina, and Willy Mendes. It Ain’t Me Babe. New York: Last Gasp, 1970.
4to.; illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings; staple bound; pictorial color
wrappers.
It Ain't Me Babe was a one-shot underground comic published in 1970, and was the first-known comic produced entirely by women. It had an initial print run of 20,000 copies, with two more printings of 10,000 each.
Male comic artists were prevalent in the American underground comics at the end of the 1960s, and while a few women did manage to print their work in these publications—such as Nancy Kalish (who sometimes signed her work “Panzika”), Trina Robbins, and Willy Mendes—they became frustrated with the genre’s boys” club atmosphere and casual misogyny. In response, Robbins and Mendes produced It Ain’t Me Babe, which in addition to covers by the editors, also included work by Kalish, Lisa Lyons, Carole, Michelle Brand, and Meredith Kurtzman. Most of the cartoonists would later become in Wimmen’s Comix.
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