Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values. Since 1996 Robbins has been writing histories of once-forgotten early 20th century women cartoonists. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. In 1972 she was one of ten women who formed the Wimmen’s Comix Collective to produce Wimmen’s Comix, still the longest-lasting all-woman comic book anthology, running from 1972 to 1992. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976.
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