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In 10 minutes, cartoonist Trina Robbins can whip out drawings like this one, which she is doing for
her next comic book — even though she once was kicked out of art school for her unconventional
style.
Creating art in her own image
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
They told Trina Robbins, “Thou art not an artist,
with a capital 'A' " and kicked her out of art school,
she says, because she didn't conform to the in
stitute's teaching style.
Today she is a leading illustrator and cartoonist
and her work has been in magazines such as Na
tional Lampoon, Ms., Village Voice, Heavy Metal,
Playboy and High Times.
Five years after her first visit to Eugene, Trina is
back to display her work, give a slide show and have
a question-and-answer session today in Room 214,
Allen Hall, at 2:30.
Trina is proof that being kicked out of art school
won't hinder a professional career.
"I'd like to say I was kicked out because I drew
little real things on paper," Robbins says. But when
she lost interest in the style the school taught, she
quit going to classes and her grades fell, she says.
"They were teaching what the style of the day
was — huge, wall-size abstracts and sculptures made
with a welding tool," she says.
Then, in 1965, Trina says she got turned on to
Marvel superhero characters and realized the stuff
she had been drawing in art school while others were
doing sculptures was actually comic strip material.
Although the Marvel books encouraged Trina to
develop her own style, she didn't want to draw
superhero style, she says.
Her family never doubted she would someday
become an artist, she says.
"Nobody took it for granted I would grow up and
do comics,” she says.
As a kid, Trina says, she "gobbled up comics,"
until her mother convinced her to toss them out.
Then Trina turned to science fiction.
"If I weren't drawing professionally, I'd still be
drawing.
"If there's anything I like to do better than draw
and drink coffee it is to talk," she says.
In her "cluttered" studio in her San Francisco
home, Trina says she draws during the day with the
radio turned on and at night with the television turn
ed to an old movie.
"I never have enough space," Trina says about
her studio.
When Trina sits down to draw she thinks,
"Here's this blank piece of paper and how am I going
to fill it?"
Trina hangs the "cute little drawings" of her 13
year-old daughter, Casey, in the kitchen because,
"you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their
refrigerator," she says.
"I have an addiction to flea markets and garage
sales," she says. She collects representations of
women from the early 1920s through the 1940s.
Currently, Trina is working on a book about the
history of women cartoonists.
"It was such fun researching that book," Trina
says, referring to how she met an Australian woman
cartoonist by mail.
"I dream of going to Australia someday to meet
her personally," she says.
Is Trina's work political??
"I think just about anything done by a woman, if
she's honest about her own feelings, tends to be
feminist and if it's feminist, it's political," she says.
Latin American artists to display works
Two Latin American artists bring
their work to Eugene for an
unusual display at the Fugene
Council for Human Rights in Latin
America at 12T6 Kincaid St. The ex
hibit runs through Nov. 19. in La
Galeria, which is open weekdays
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Through his art, Nicaraguan Ale
jandro Canales will present the
reality of Nicaragua and paint a
mural reflecting the friendship
between the two countries. Hts
large mural, which is in ECHRLA's
La Galeria, depicts images of
education, agriculture and peace.
The mural's doves, women,
flowers and fruit express
Nicaragua's spirit, he says.
Chilean artist Orlandro
Letelier's bold, colorful work
shows images of women in work
and real-life situations. They are
painted in tempura color and col
orful hues are combined with rich
browns.
Letelier, son of the assassinated
Chilean Ambassador to the
United States, has etchings, in
taglio and serigraph pieces in the
exhibition. He has exhibited and
taught in California, and has
murals in Washington, D.C., New
York City, Chicago and
throughout the Western United
States and Nicaragua, including
the mural which graces ECHRLA's
outer wall.
Probably Letelier's strongest et
ching is done in the spirit of a
Goya print. The etching is inspired
by the incident of the four
Maryknoll missionaries who were
found murdered.
Letelier's display also will in
clude serigraphs of Chilean
oceans, memories and dream im
ages. In his print "Que se abran
las puertas," the birds represent
peace, hope, freedom, and a bet
ter future. In several of these
prints Letelier has used pastels
over the tops of his prints.
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