comicy dispatch: nerdy girls can be total bitches, too
Some background: Trina Robbins is the self-appointed expert women cartoonist “herstorian” (and herself a rather crappy woman cartoonist) and founder of the now predominantly male-run women cartoonists organization Friends of Lulu.
When I did my journalism master’s thesis on women cartoonists, TR didn’t return any of my e-mails; this was also the case for lessers in the same mold, e.g. Heidi MacDonald, who generally suck up to cartoonists, men and men cartoonists, but who seem to be threatened and/or out of their element when it comes to women infringing in their womanly territory (trad male hegemony tactics, girls: divide and conquer). I wonder how TR and HM get along.
Now: I’m not so much a fan of Aline Kominsky-Crumb either, mostly because I don’t care for her work (though she’s worlds better than TR) plus the odd impression she makes in Crumb. However, my opinion of her has increased at least 47.3% after reading this interview she gave to Daniel Robert Epstein for the Suicide Girls (big gender WTF there as well).
This snippet works on so many delightful levels. Not only does it confirm my opinion of TR, but there’s cat-fighting, misogyny, narcissistic wounds plus the goddamn Suicide Girls? Amazing.
Heidi M. wrote:
WE get along fine, actually, and if you think Trina and I are the kind of women who get threatened by other women, you are barking up the wrong tree. Trina has her faults, but that isn’t one of them.
I’m sorry I didn’t answer your request for information. When did you send it? I admit I get a LOT of email, and more things fall through the cracks than should. The fact that I’ve been branded a woman-stomper because of a missed email (after founding and running an organization for women in comics for four or five years) is saddening to me.
Anyway, I look forward to all scholarly investigations into women and culture, so keep me posted.
Posted on 04-Dec-06 at 10:10 pm | Permalink