Go Girl!: Double Trouble

Go Girl! #1

by Trina Robbins, Anne Timmons

Back in the day, Janet Goldman was an honest-to-goodness flying superhero, the far out Go-Go Girl. But Go-Go Girl eventually hung up her costume - well, put it away in a dresser drawer - and now her teenage daughter, Lindsay, has inherited Mom's flying powers, donned her old costume, and become the teenage superheroine sensation Go Girl! Now she's fighting crime and righting wrongs...with an occasional leg up from the now semi-retired Go-Go Girl. Pouring the classic charm of comics of the past through a subtle modernist filter, series creator/writer Trina Robbins and artist Anne Timmons have crafted an all-ages delight, garnering critical praise and a coveted Lulu Award. The GoGirl! collection includes pinups by Barb Rausch, Steve Leiber, Lea Hernandez, Sergio Aragones, and others and bonus features, including material never before seen in the GoGirl! series.

Genres: Comics, Fiction, Superheroes, Graphic Novels

136 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2002

About the author

Trina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Her first comics were printed in the East Village Other. She later joined the staff of a feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe, with whom she produced the first all-woman comic book titled It Ain't Me Babe. She became increasingly involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists, through projects such as the comics anthology Wimmen's Comix. She was also the penciller on Wonder Woman for a time in the '80s.

Trina has worked on an adaptation of Sax Rohmer's Dope for Eclipse Comics and GoGirl with artist Anne Timmons for Image Comics.

Trina designed Vampirella's costume for Forrest Ackerman and Jim Warren.

In addition to her comics work, Robbins is an author of non-fiction books, including several with an emphasis on the history of women in cartooning.

She is the first of the three "Ladies of the Canyon" in Joni Mitchell's classic song from the album of the same name.

Trina Robbins won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A., a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow.

Reviews

[Kayenne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I would've loved this when I was 8. So give it to an 8 year old kid for girly superheroes. Still annoying that it holds up the skinny and scantily clad continingent.... but they do time travel and go into different dimensions...

[Galion Public Library Teens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review by S.P. : "I like how she saves people and without her they wouldn't be the same."

[Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

pleasant, but very simple plot. Aimed at very young girls?

[quinnster · Rating 3 out of 5]

'twas okay. a bit cheesy.

[Diana Welsch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Self-consciously naive. I wasn't into it.