Robert Triptow is a writer and "the last of the underground cartoonists."
He succeeded Howard Cruse as editor of Gay Comix, from issue #5 (1984) through issue #13 (1991). As a cartoonist, his contributions to Gay Comix began with issue #2.
His 1989 anthology Gay Comics is one of the earliest histories of the subject, and won the first Lambda Literary Award for Humor.
As a journalist, he has contributed to The Advocate, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, The Sentinel, and other West Coast gay publications..
Gay Comics. Edited by Robert Triptow. New York: Plume; New American Library, 1989. 120p. ISBN 0452262291
Strip AIDS U.S.A.: A Collection of Cartoon Art to Benefit People With AIDS. Trina Robbins, Bill Sienkiewicz, Robert Triptow, editors. San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1988. ISBN 9780867193732
Gregory, Roberta (2004), Naughty Bits #40, Fantagraphics.
Gregory, Roberta (1999), Naughty Bits #28, Fantagraphics.
Gregory, Roberta (1998), Naughty Bits #27, Fantagraphics.
Kinney, Jay, editor (1993), Young Lust #8, Last Gasp, ISBN 0867192534.
Bocage, Angela (1993), Real Girl #6, Fantagraphics, ASIN B000IQUH6S.
Bocage, Angela (1991), Real Girl #2, Fantagraphics.
Bocage, Angela (1990), Real Girl #1, Fantagraphics, ASIN B000KSA71O.
Robbins, Trina, editor (1990), Choices: a pro-choice benefit comic anthology for the National Organization for Women, Angry Isis Press, ASIN: B002E5WBKG.