It Ain’t Me Babe Comix, 1970.

It Ain’t Me Babe Comix, 1970, Is a 36-page one-shot underground comic produced entirely by women. The book was co-produced by famed artist and feminist icon Trina Robbins and several other talented underground artists. It Ain’t Me Babe, was created when many of the female comic book artists of the 1960s and 1970s became fed-up with the male-dominated industry of the period and longed for a change. These women often found the comic book work printed frequently in the comic book industry to be disappointing, filled with male-made glorifying depictions of women, sex, drugs, etc. The women were also disgusted by the treatment of female artists/employees in the field and the misogynistic standards of the industry. The group of women included: Trina Robbins, Nancy Kalish, Carole, Lisa Lyons, Meredith Kurtzman, and Michele Brand. Extremely talented artists, Lisa Lyons was a cartoonist for a popular underground socialist newspaper and Kurtzman was the daughter of Mad magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman.  It Ain’t Me Babe was found to be incredibly successful following its publication in July of 1970. The cover featured Wonder Woman and other famous powerful women on a blue and magenta background with the words “women’s liberation” printed on the right-hand side. “Breaking Out” is one of the comics included in It Ain’t Me Babe and is a parody of mainstream female comic book characters waking up to the Women’s Liberation Movement. The comic features many prominent themes of women’s liberation, It Ain’t Me Babe delivers stories of women as leaders, heroines, and conquerors- but also doesn’t shy away from depicting its’ women characters as victims of male oppression and sexualization. It Ain’t Me Babe ended up being so successful that Trina Robbins and many other of her fellow female co-publishers were offered a gig contributing to the long-form series Wimmen’s Comix.