Trina Robbins

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1987
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Chicagoland Detective Agency

1 - The Drained Brains Caper (Aug-2010)
2 - The Maltese Mummy (Apr-2011)
3 - Night of the Living Dogs (Feb-2012)
4 - The Big Flush (Nov-2012)
5 - The Bark in Space (Apr-2013)
6 - A Midterm Night's Scheme (May-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

DC Comics: Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story (Jun-1998)

Famous Characters: Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story (Jun-1998)

Inventions and Discovery

Hedy Lamarr and a Secret Communication System (Jul-2021)

My Boyfriend Is a Monster

8 - A Match Made in Heaven (Apr-2013)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Silver Metal Lover

    Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood....

    Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale--a beautiful, tragic, erotic, and ulti...

  • Paper Dolls from the Comics

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  • California Girls Paper Dolls

  • A Century of Women Cartoonists

  • Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story

    DC Comics: Wonder Woman
    Famous Characters: Wonder Woman

  • Great Women Cartoonists

  • Macbeth

  • Tender Murderers

    The did it for love or money...or both!Some of them fabled femme fatales of yesteryear. some headliners in yesterday's newspapers. Jean Harris, Ruth Snyder, Kate Bender, Belle Starr, Bonnie Parker, Phoolan Devi, Lizzie Borden, Grace Marks, Valerie So...

  • Go Girl! Robots Gone Wild

    Two feature-length stories in one volume! Video games can get too realistic, as the flying teenager, Go Girl! discovers in "Prisoners of the Machine," when she and her friends find themselves trapped inside a computer, menaced by giant anime-robots! ...



  • Freedom Songs

    Fourteen year old Sarah is a slave in Maryland during the 1850s. She knows her only chance at freedom is to head North, where slavery is illegal. To get there, though, Sarah needs help from members of the Underground Railroad. But who can she trust?...

  • The Drained Brains Caper

    Chicagoland Detective Agency - 1

    Raf knows Megan is trouble from the moment she steps into his mom's pet food store asking for a tarantula. But there's one thing you can count on in Chicagoland: weird things happen several times a day. Megan is a vegetarian, manga-reading haiku writ...

  • Girl Comics

    Marvel is proud to bring you a celebration of amazing women in comics with a brand-new anthology created entirely by the most talented and exciting women working in comics today, including Ann Nocenti (DAREDEVIL), Amanda Conner (Power Girl), Laura Ma...

  • The Maltese Mummy

    Chicagoland Detective Agency - 2

    A friend has vanished, a mummy's amulet is missing, and there's a weirdo out there looking for human brains and hearts. The Chicagoland Detective Agency -- run by Megan, Raf, and his talking dog Bradley -- have more than enough cases on their hands (...

  • Night of the Living Dogs

    Chicagoland Detective Agency - 3

    Yes, Chicagoland is an odd place. But the word is out that Megan, Raf, and Raf's talking dog Bradley are the team to go to when weirder things than usual start happening. Their Chicagoland Detective Agency takes danger in hand (and paw) to find a mys...

  • The Big Flush

    Chicagoland Detective Agency - 4

    Nevermore to be Chicagoland detective, My teen heart broken! --Megan Yamamura, poet with three strikes The Chicagoland Detective Agency won't be the same without her. --Raf Hernandez, haunted genius Holy Simoleons! We need a dame's to...

  • The Bark in Space

    Chicagoland Detective Agency - 5

    Chicagoland can't get much weirder than this: Raf, Megan, and Bradley have been abducted by aliens from the planet Fnarf III! And not just your ordinary, everyday aliens, either. These extraterrestrials are intelligent canines, as smart as Bradley, w...

  • A Match Made in Heaven

    My Boyfriend Is a Monster - 8

    Aspiring comic book artist Morning Glory Conroy is delighted to be in a relationship with new student Gabriel, but her best friend Julia needs her, Gabriel's cousin Luci keeps causing trouble, and other crises keep arising, making her wonder if the h...

  • Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer

    In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or...

  • Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

    With the 1896 publication of Rose O’Neill’s comic strip The Old Subscriber Calls, in Truth Magazine, American women entered the field of comics, and they never left it. But, you might not know that reading most of the comics histories out there. ...



  • The Big Flush: Book 4

    Poor Megan -- history's repeating itself. She's been booted from Stepford Prep, and her father is sending her to visit Pine Lake Academy . . . a boarding school. This could mean the end of the Chicagoland Detective Agency! Raf and Bradley come along ...

  • A Midterm Night's Scheme

    Chicagoland Detective Agency - 6

    Help! Just before the science fair, a set of magic potions disappear from Luna's locker! The Chicagoland Detective Agency takes up the young witch's case. If Raf, Megan, and Raf's talking dog Bradley can handle space aliens, mummies, and ghosts, this...

  • The Complete Wimmen's Comix

    In the late ’60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium ― but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce ...

  • Babes In Arms: Women in the Comics During World War Two

    • During the Golden Age of comics, publishers offered titles supporting the war effort -- presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts -- babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting all of th...

  • Sax Rohmer's Dope

    A talented young actress becomes fatally ensnared in London's mysterious and glittery drug culture of the early 20th century.

    Trina Robbins' brilliant graphic novel adaptation of Sax Rohmer's sensational 1919 novel, Dope, is consdered by m...

  • Bunch of Jews and Other Stuff

    A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff) is based on the 1938 short story collection by Trina Robbin's father, Muttel (Mutye) Perechudnik, and was originally published in Yiddish. This collection features a co...

  • The Flapper Queens

    Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous oversized hardcover collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner awar...

  • Hedy Lamarr and a Secret Communication System

    Inventions and Discovery

    Discover the brilliant life of Hedy Lamarr in this full-color graphic novel. This talented film actress became an influential scientist with her invention of a secret radio system in the early 1940s, a building block of today’s wireless communi...

  • Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion

    Hermes Press is coming to slay the fashion industry- with some HERstory! Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion explores the history behind Mopsy and her creator Gladys Parker! This beautiful book will also provide a rarely seen colle...

  • Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comics

    The audacious exploits of ten great adventurous female stars from the Golden Age of comic strips. In the 1920s they were socialites and flappers. In the 1960s they were homemakers and heartthrobs. But from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, female st...



  • Won't Back Down

    In 1973, the Supreme Court gave women the right to make decisions over the care of their own bodies. A mere fifty years later, a rogue Supreme Court has taken that right away. Today, over 32 states have banned or severely restricted abortion. We̵...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Trina Robbins has published 30 books.

Trina Robbins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Won't Back Down, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Trina Robbins, The Silver Metal Lover, was published in January 1987.

Yes. Trina Robbins has 1 series.
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