Romance Comics, Golden Age Comics, and Women in Comics Links

Take it from the authority on women in comics, Trina Robbins, by visiting her website, TrinaRobbins.com. She wrote A Century of Women Cartoonists and From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women's Comics From Teens to Zines. She is also the writer and illustrator of the comic Go Girl!

If you want to know more about women in the comics world, there is a wealth of information at Friends of Lulu, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging female readership and participation in the comic book industry.

Read about Jack Kirby's work in romance comics. Be sure to check out "Kirby's Romance Women-Tough Enough?" by Richard Howell, and "Heart and Soul: True Divorce Cases and Soul Love," by John Morrow.

Crimeboss is a really nice site devoted to golden age crime comics.

Comics International is a pretty cool trade magazine out of the UK.

Take a gander at Mitch Brown's excellent site, The 100 Most Influential Comics of the 20th Century. Young Romance #1 comes in at #99.

See Dan Stevenson's list of every romance comic ever published.

Read about the Origin of the Comics Code-Comic Book Conundrum by Joel Grineau.

See the Original Code!

Join our Yahoo romance comics discussion group.

Read some analysis of the genre.

Read "Out of Print, But Into Digital" By Kendra Mayfield, from Wired News.