Monkey Minds ~ On-Demand
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Trina Robbins has been writing comics and books for over thirty years.
She lives in San Francisco and loves cats and vintage clothing.
You can contact Trina at mswuff@juno.com
Robbins: "They were reading comics about teenagers, usually about teenage girls, although they read Archie. You talk to a lot of women of a certain age and ask them what they read when they were a kid, and they read Archie comics, but they won't call it that, they'll say, "I read Betty & Veronica," because that's who they related to. And there were other titles. Stan Lee, the editor of Marvel who has given us Spider-man and The X-Men and the Fantastic Four in the '60s gave us so many teen titles in the ‘40s. The biggest two were Patsy Walker, which was about a teenage girl, and Millie the Model, which lasted a long time. You'll find a lot of people who remember Millie the Model because it lasted through the mid-'70s. Archie Comics also gave us Katy Keene, who was a model, and the girls just loved Katy Keene and used to send in drawings and designs for her clothes, and again, you find women past a certain age, and they'll all tell you they loved Katy Keene when they were little girls."
