Media Release -- The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes writer and herstorian Trina Robbins as she discusses her latest book, Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury on Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 7:00-9:00pm. This historic volume, published under IDW's Library of American Comics imprint, collects five years worth of comic strips starring the first female superhero created and drawn by a woman. Robbins's lecture and booksigning are free and open to the public.
About Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury:
Catfights and crossdressers, mad scientists and Gestapo agents with swastikas branding irons – it's one lurid and exciting adventure after another in this lavish, full-color collection of the first female superhero to be created and drawn by a woman. Miss Fury was a sexy adventurer clad in a skin-tight panther costume. By day, she was socialite Marla Drake. By night…Miss Fury! In the first half of the 20th century, women cartoonists could be found in America's newspapers, but Tarpe Mills was one of the few who drew adventure comics, and the only one who drew a costumed superheroine. The Miss Fury Sunday newspaper strip ran from 1941 until 1952 and had millions of readers, among them GIs who painted the beautiful action heroine on the nosecones of their bombers. Eisner- and Harvey-nominated writer and historian Trina Robbins has chosen the best Miss Fury stories for this oversized collection, which also features a biographical essay about Tarpe Mills that places her within the history of women cartoonists, and includes pages from an unpublished and unfinished Miss Fury graphic novel by Mills from 1979.
For more information about Ms. Robbins, please visit www.trinarobbins.com
