(NSFW) Trina in Playboy

Thanks to comics scholar John Cunnally, I have finally solved the mystery of when Trina’s comics appeared in Playboy. In Last Girl Standing and in interviews, she often talked about how proud she was of being accepted because it was one of the most prominent places a cartoonist could be published at the time.

Trina’s “Rosie the riveter'“ in the March 1979 issue of Playboy. Trina also had a CONTINUING (but less sexy) “Rosie” strip in the National Lampoon.

John told me that Trina also had a strip in the March 1980 issue “Rita Rake, Soft-Boiled Detective in A Case of the Clap,” and in the March 1982 issue “Rita Rake in the Maltese Vibrator.” With this lead, I hope to find more!