Vagabond Comics & Books

WIMMEN'S COMIX #10

34 pages. Saddlestitched. Black and white illustrations throughout. 7.0″ x 10.0″ x 0.1″.


Classic all-women's Underground Comix anthology! ....positivity, feminist ideologies, tales from everyday life, satire, fantasy, humor, more!



Wimmen's Comix #10! "International... Issue" —brought you by the Wimmins Comic Collective. Featuring comix legends Joyce Farmer, Mary Fleener, Roberta Gregory, Dori Seda, Trina Robbins, Diane Noomin, Myra Hancock, Krystine Kryttre, Viviane Katz, Kathryn Lemieux, Caryn Leschen, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Debra Rooney, Sharon Rudahl, Severin and Virginia Small! Printed in 1985.



"The deal was for everyone to do what turned them on or p*ssed them off. We wanted to show women as they really are." -Lee Marrs



Table of Contents:

0. "Hmmn... how did she ever get into that job?"

1. What do Matzo Balls have to do with Success?

2. Liadan and Curithir


3. A Typical Day at the Office

4. An Epidemic... Cured by the Pen

5. Tales of an L.A. Plaything

6. ["Some places you think the coffee bean walked through in Hip Boots!"]
Overheard at America's Lunch Counters

7. Those Girl Butchers in...Ground Chuck

8. I Can't Work Today (A Stupid Poem)

9. Mommie Dearest Bunch

10. Semantics

11. Violet in Paris

12. Utterly Private Eye - DiDi Glitz

13. Vocational Training

14. The Day I Forgot How...

15. More Fun Than Food Stamps

16. Multiple Choice

17. The Young and the Professional (The Life of the Lonesome Feminist Capitalist)

18. Coping With Stress For Under One Dollar

19. I Was a Broadway B-Girl (For a Day)

20. What Did You Learn Today?

21. "Inspected - Rejected"



From cbldf.org:

"The first all-women underground publication was the 1970 one-shot It Ain’t Me Babe, edited by Trina Robbins and Willy Mendes. Published by Ron Turner’s Last Gasp, the comic featured stories by Robbins and Mendes as well as Nancy Kalish, Meredith Kurtzman, Michele Brand, Lisa Lyons, and Carole. Although copies are hard to come by today, the book sold well enough that Turner agreed to an all-female series, Wimmen’s Comix, which launched in November 1972 as a collective with rotating editorship. From the start, Wimmen’s Comix deconstructed the sexist double standards applied to women in a quickly changing society... The collaborators also expanded the discussion of women’s sexuality with honest and personal explorations of all orientations... Beauty standards and body image were also frequent topics, as in “Goldie” by Aline Kominsky. Wimmen’s Comix endured with an irregular publishing schedule until 1992, later featuring landmark creators, including Melinda Gebbie, Phoebe Gloeckner, Roberta Gregory, Shary Flenniken, Dori Seda, Diane Noomin, and many more. A few months before the founding of Wimmen’s Comix, Joyce Farmer (then Sutton) and Lyn Chevli founded their own series T*ts & Cl*ts Comix in July 1972, self-published under the Nanny Goat Productions banner. The first few issues exclusively featured work by Farmer and Chevli, like (the) parody ad from the back cover of #3..