Sunday, July 31, 2011

Catching Up, Part Eight: Women & Gender in Comics

[Note: Links to posts about SDCC and its aftermath should be along soon-ish.]


Women & Gender in Comics:

The World Has Already Changed LinkBlogging: Women, Collectibility, Miniseries, and Gary Groth

Women in comics: They’re now, they’re wow — get used to it

Next cosplay idea:

HEY UGO, quit being assholes!

Character Spotlight: Princess Adrienne

June 19, 2011

Barda’s relationship with her body is interesting

Now, when I first posted this panel

I’d interpret this as saying that comics are currently being written to appeal to men in a way that alienates women readers

Soapbox: Women’s Manga

Josei manga considered

Ruffled Feathers and Jerked Knees

The Misadventures of a Newbie Superhero Girl

Intro

Remember how Tom Brevoort made this big thing a few months ago about how diversity is important but teams like the Avengers need to be composed of A-list heroes first and foremost?

Women in Comics: Regressive Storytelling and Iconic Characters

She Has No Head! – Life With Mr. Dangerous

Women in Comics – Spotlight series!

Pakistani Women Create Comics To Deal With Harassment

Life After Marriage: Is there life after marriage in comics?

DC-Women-Kicking-Ass Tell DC: Pick Up the Money Sitting on the Table

On Gender & Race In "Fear Itself" # 4 & "Flashpoint" # 3 :- "Don't Say That's Just For White Boys."

Frank Miller Owns Batman: “no hope at all”

New 'Huntress' and 'Penguin' Miniseries Join DC's Batman Titles in October

3 Chicks Review Comics – Episode 021

Women in Comics Spotlight – Kim Yale

When I was reading up on Storm the other day I was super impressed with her storylines

13. X-23

Trina Robbins on Comics Heroines, Feminism, and Lacy Underthings

OPEN CALL TO ALL FEMALE CARTOONISTS!

She Has No Head! – Koko Be Good

July 4th Edition:

7/9/11

7/16/11

7/17/11

7/18/2011

Greg Rucka and Rick Burchett Launch Lady Sabre

The Problems Of Not Being Male Or White In Comics Crossovers

Good Comics Out June 22

A Timeline of Josei Manga in the U.S.


Aki Alliance: Free Online Schoolgirl Graphic Novel Is Great!

March on Earth Books 1-2

Arisa Book 3

DC Spinner Rack: Batgirl #23, Birds of Prey #14, Frankenstein #2, Unwritten #27

Summer Shojo Chibis: Rasetsu 9, Library Wars 5, Story of Saiunkoku 3, Butterflies, Flowers 7

Review: Gingerbread Girl

Jim Balent's Catwoman Is 'The Mona Lisa of Comic Art,' Priced at Nearly $500K on eBay

The Complete Story of Harry Potter Illustrated in 8 Posters by Lucy Knisley

Kate Kane Is Bad to the Bone in 'Batwoman' #2 [Exclusive]

Comics We Love: The Day-Glo Sci-Fi Adventures of 'Miranda Mercury' [Interview + Preview]

DC Female Creators at SDCC: Table for One, Redux

Huntress gets a mini come October

Can someone tell me why this woman is not on a top tier book?

Girls who love Cap help “Knock out the Red Skull!”

Five Kick Ass DC Women who don’t have to get dressed-up for the fourth of July

Lady Liberty, she’s practically a DC woman

J.H. Williams III on Batwoman: “a wild ride”

Courtney Whitmore (Star-Spangled Kid II/Stargirl)

Karolina Dean (Lucy in the Sky)

Shado

Sif

Suzanne “Cissie” King-Jones (Arrowette)

Win Volume 1 of A Bride's Story!

Gallery Time: Emma Vieceli

Charlaine Harris plans original GN series!

Double Decker Linkspam

Drawn to comics: Literary scholar Hillary Chute frames a career with graphic narrative.

Interview: Emi Lenox Pt. 1

Graphic Nonfiction: The Life, Art and Death of Ana Mendieta

Know Your New Yorker Cartoonists: Roz Chast

How To Make Webcomics Characters Grow Up: A Conversation with ‘Girls With Slingshots’ Artist Danielle Corsetto

Review: Brain Camp

Preview: Betty & Veronica Double Digest #192

Interview: Colleen AF Venable

Squee! Of the Week: Leia Meets Mucha

July: Bad Machinery, by John Allison

Persephone Pioneers: Lucy Knisley

The first female superheroes

Review: Book of Lilah – Kickstart

Women in Comics – Spotlight series!

Women in Comics – Updates and Updated List

Women in Comics Spotlight: Adriana Blake

Women in Comics Spotlight: Camilla d’Errico

Women in Comics Spotlight: Conjoined Comics

I See How it Is

Don’t Worry Though!

Women: Threat or Menace?

Reality vs. Bodice Ripping: The Truth About Victorian Underwear

Huntress Somewhat Unbenched in the DCnU, Will Receive Her Own Mini-Series

GIRL COMICS FOR GIRLS - For GROWN’D UPS

So I’m guessing I’m the only one who knows Gwen Stacy was Peter’s first love…

Happy Birthday Gail Simone

The Josei Alphabet: Y

The Josei Alphabet: X

The Josei Alphabet: W

From the stack: Maid Shokun vol. 1

Magic Knight Rayearth, Vol. 1

A First Look at Soulless

Rogue Mirror

The Jillian Tamaki Interview

Exclusive: Kim Harrison’s Blood Work Blog Tour

Nice Art: Lauren Weinstein’s Sit Down Test

Indigo Kelleigh Kickstarts Ellie Connelly

Spend the month with Gabrielle Bell

The Art of Amanda Conner coming in January

Comics colorist Christina Strain writes The Fox Sister with artist Jayd Aït-Kaci

SDCC Wishlist | Amy Mebberson’s Green Lantern/Muppets mash-up

SDCC Wishlist | Joëlle Jones’ vintage ad prints

Preview: Sail the high seas with Betty and Veronica

Colleen Doran returns to comics

Robot Review | Olympians: Hera – The Goddess and Her Glory

Comics A.M. | Charlaine Harris’ new graphic novel; the origins of Epic

Brooke Gladstone will be on The Colbert Report promoting her graphic essay on media literacy “The Influencing Machine” TONIGHT!

My Collection of All-Lady Comics Anthologies!

SIMONE, VAN SCIVER Go For Nuclear Reaction On DCnU FIRESTORM

ProFile Friday: Melinda Gebbie

[PR] YEN PRESS LAUNCHES IPHONE APP WITH FREE GOSSIP GIRL, PSYCHO KILLER DIGITAL COMIC

Vixen: Return of the Lion

Review: Ivy

Valeria Richards

Joan Mason

Clarice Ferguson (Blink)

And if that Mockingbird don’t sing?

Fangirl Friday: Lisa

Gingerbread Girl

I Recommend: Magic Knight Rayearth

Any supposed Sequential Art professor who cannot think of a single female artist ~worthy~ of being featured is not himself worthy of his post.

Interview: Sally Pascale – Comic Book Reader, Feminist, Blogger… and the Internet’s most outspoken ‘Green Lantern’ fan

Emi Lenox Fills Her Sketches With Sweet Goodness [Art]

Arkham City adds Talia al Ghul; debuts Penguin video

Karen Zachary Wang Renders DC's Crimefighting Families [Art]

Happy Birthday Nicola Scott!

Happy Birthday, Gail Simone!

Three other interviews about women and comics to read this week

Saturday Manga edition for July 23 2011

7/24/11

7/30/11

Drawing Crazy Patterns – Flash Stories Ending With Iris West Complaining About Barry Allen

Drawing Crazy Patterns – Jean Grey “Dying”

3 Chicks Review Comics – Episode 022

An Elegy for Amelia Johnson

*Stardrop — Recommended

Cover of the Week – 7/20/11

Bits and Bytes: June 29, 2011

I Recommend: Pyongyang

Characters of Colour in superhero comics - the X (wo)men

K: “Right on time.”

krazy komiks konvention

Barda’s relationship with her body is interesting

My 9-year-old niece and legality scan

Catching Up, Part Seven: Strong Female Characters, Womanthology, Wonder Woman, & more

"Strong Female Characters"/"Sexism is Over!":

SEXISM IS OVER: Kate Beaton's 'Strong Female Characters' [Webcomic]

Sexism is over!

'Strong Female Characters' Inspires Strong Female Fan Art, Animation

War Rocket Ajax #5: ComicsAlliance's Podcast Talks Dr. McNinja, Strong Female Characters


Womanthology:

Womanthology raises $27,000 overnight. Are you listening, Marvel and DC?

Womanthology offers a new way for to showcase and support Women in Comics

Womanthology!

WOMANTHOLOGY need your help!

VIDEO SHELF FRIDAY: ‘Womanthology’ roars, ‘Batman’ soars — and News of the World is floored

The Womanthology has just over $7500 to go, and it just went live last night!

THE WOMAN BEHIND ‘WOMANTHOLOGY’: Renae De Liz sees inspiration blossom for 140 female artists

Kickstart Womanthology!

Womanthology: A Massive, All-Female Comics Anthology

VIDEO SHELF FRIDAY: ‘Womanthology’ roars, ‘Batman’ soars — and News of the World is floored

The Rapid Rise of "Womanthology"

WOMANTHOLOGY: An Indie Sensation Before Publication

Womanthology Project Blows Up on Kickstarter

Womanthology

Womanthology News!

Anthology of Showcasing Female Comic Creators Needs Funding

Womanthology offers a new way for to showcase and support Women in Comics

Womanthology.

Womanthology!

WOMANTHOLOGY: An Indie Sensation Before Publication

Womanthology reaches funding goal in less than 19 hours

Women Comic Book Creators Find a Home on Kickstarter

Wow.

Womanthology, and Batgirl speaks out

Announcing: Womanthology

Female comic creators unite for a cause in Womanthology


Wonder Woman:

DC Puts Wonder Woman on Sale Online

Gene Colan Week - "A Bold New Direction for... Wonder Woman"

An interesting discovery on how Wonder Woman was perceived in WWII comes through the Google News Archive.

Is Ralph Cosentino’s Story of the Amazon Princess a Wonder Woman who actually works?

Wonder Woman is alone?

All of these folks got reboots before Wonder Woman ever had a single film.

Wonder Woman Web

Wonder Woman Loses Her Pants in DCnU?

DC Puts Wonder Woman on Sale Online

Comic Book Easter Eggs – A Trio of Wonder Woman Easter Eggs!

'Wonder Woman' TV Pilot Storyboards Surface, Give a Glimpse of Paradise Island

Wonder Woman: A Look Back at the Controversial Take on the Amazon Princess During the '70s

Is the classic Wonder Woman costume back in the DCnU??

The surest sign that Wonder Woman with pants is the status quo

Original sketch of NBC Wonder Woman costume; designer explains process

No pants! This is indeed the cover to Wonder Woman #1

Storyboards from Wonder Woman pilot

That Wonder Woman Pilot: No wonder this didn’t get picked up

Didio and Lee: More to come on the Wonder Woman costume

Lego and DC extend agreement; Wonder Woman, Superman to get sets

New Wonder Woman items designed for younger fans

Wonder Woman OGN to be released in the fall

Sale on digital “Wonder Woman 101” comics

Apropos of nothing, here's an Art Baltazar drawing of Wonder Woman riding her kanga Jumpa:

Wherein I talk about Wonder Woman’s underpants.

DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman – The 90s Cover Revealed

No More Pants For Wonder Woman?

October 2011 Solicits: Wonder Woman #2

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies #2 Preview

The First Look Inside Wonder Woman #1!!

Lego Wonder Woman (How Awesome Is That?!)

A Look At The New Wonder Woman From Justice League Dark #1?

Colleen Doran’s Sketches For A Lost “Fantasy-Oriented” Wonder Woman

A Second Cliff Chiang Page From Wonder Woman #1!!

Wonder Woman Pilot Review OR Now I Understand Why It Didn’t Get Picked Up

Three Pretty Extensive Clips From the Failed Wonder Woman Pilot Remind Us Mostly of TV in the Nineties

Some Wonder Woman Concept Art You Haven’t Seen

DC Inexplicably, Quietly Changes Wonder Woman’s Costume… Again

Storyboards Give Us Another Taste of the Wonder Woman Pilot

DC Comics Gives LEGO Permission to Make Tiny Wonder Women

Breaking: Wonder Woman is still wearing jeggings

10 Things I hated about the Wonder Woman Pilot

Wonder Woman, Red Sonja, and Xena: Warrior Princess walk into a girls’ locker room…

Is this the triumphant return of Wonder Woman’s star-spangled shorts?

Ben Caldwell on Paradise Island

Colleen Doran’s JMS Wonder Woman that you didn’t see

New Wonder Woman action figures for the youngest of fans

Has the great Wonder Woman pants/no pants question been answered?

The Wonder Woman We Didn’t See

Frank Miller Owns Batman: “he’s a rube.”


X-Men: First Class

Why X-Men: First Class has issues

Magneto and Professor X Had Sex at the Movies This Summer—Did You See It?

July Link Love: X-Men First Class, Green Lantern, and Other Tidbits

Fantastic Fangirls Podcast # 3: X-Men First Class

Catching Up, Part Six: Raina Telgemeier, Race, Ethnicity & PoCs in Comics, Sailor Moon, & more

Raina Telgemeier:

Raina Telgemeier announces Drama!

Raina Telgemeier follows Smile with Drama

Raina Telgemeier’s Smile Followup Called Drama


Race, Ethnicity, & PoCs in Comics:

DC’s racefail, featuring Cass Cain

On Gender & Race In "Fear Itself" # 4 & "Flashpoint" # 3 :- "Don't Say That's Just For White Boys."

In case you weren’t aware of the fact that Connor isn’t 100% white.

Bryan Lee O’Malley Takes Next Graphic Novel To Villard

Eric Wallace on MR. TERRIFIC

BlackJack Returns With Your Support

PBS Looks Into Comics’ Racial History

The Problems Of Not Being Male Or White In Comics Crossovers

Civil War Webcomic Freedman Follows Former Slave

Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Lost Adventures

'Mythomania': Derek Kirk Kim's Live-Action Cartoonists [Video]

Read this: O'Malley, Takekuma, and Aihara mega-interview!

Dustin Nguyen

Characters of Colour in superhero comics - the men (part 5)

Man this discussion of non-Japanese PoC in manga gives me a lot of new titles I want to try!

Bits and Bytes: June 29, 2011

Characters of Colour in superhero comics - the men (part three)

Characters of Colour in superhero comics - the X (wo)men

Characters of Colour in non superhero Comics

Rage

Black Superheroes On The Web

Black Age of Comics Convention XIV: July 8-10, 2011

Blade Anime Opening

Black Dynamite Tease Coming Soon


Sailor Moon:

My “Sailor Moon and Chibimoon’s birthday” tag

Awww.

Awww 3.

I think it’s important here that the misandry/straw feminism was shown

Yeah, there are issues all over the place here

Could really do without the fatphobia

It’s kind of hilarious how Chibiusa isn’t like “but men are all right”

Oh hey are they giving her her Japanese name this time around

Is Sailor Moon poised for a comeback?

To be completely fair, in the manga both Usagi and Chibiusa kissed Mamoru and Helios respectively when they were unconcious as well (to wake them up using magic though) in deliberate reversal of the trope


Supergirl:

Adoring Supergirl

Back Issue: Supergirl #24

Interview with Supergirl Writers

October Solicits

Supergirl comics through August 2011

Newsarama interview with SUPERGIRL writers Mike Johnson and Michael Green

Tell DC to send Supergirl to high school

A female centric DC project that will pay off for a long time

Supergirl #66

Fables #107


Superman #712 & Sharif:

Kittens or Keffiyehs? The truth behind Superman #712

Superman #712 Not Changed Over Muslim Content. But Over Kitten Content.

What’s missing from SUPERMAN #712?

Why Did DC Cancel Superman's Team-Up with a Muslim Hero?

What’s missing from SUPERMAN #712?

"things are so passionate, times are so real"

LOLCATS.

Sharif encounter

DC cancels Superman’s team-up with Muslim superhero

DC says Superman canned due to kitten love; what would DC do to Wonder Woman?

Superman with Cats: You Will Believe a Man Can Haz Kittens

Superman #713 Published Despite 'Controversial' Kitten-Rescuing Content

DC Shows That Superman LOVES America And Doesn’t Associate With Muslims, So Please Nobody Say Anything Bad About DC

Quoted: Comics Alliance on DC Comics Benching A Muslim Superhero

Catching Up, Part Five: Nancy Silberkleit, Lois Lane, other media, & more

Nancy Silberkleit:

Lady CEO Of Archie Comics Accused Of Shouting About Penises

Archie Comics Sues Co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit for Sexual Harassment

TMZ: Archie Comics co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit liked to yell out words for genitalia

TMZ: Archie Filed Legal Papers Against Co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit

Archie Attempts to Oust Co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit With Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

TMZ: Archie Comics co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit liked to yell out words for genitalia

Report: Archie Comics sues Co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit


Lois Lane & Supermarriage:

False: Lois Lane is a typical damsel in distress.

Lois Lane Verse

Thoughts on the Super-Marriage Officially Being Erased

Lois Lane Watch for the week of July 20th

Superman Loses Lois Lane, Flight and Two Sets of Parents in DC Relaunch

Superman: no parents, no wife, no flying, no costume

Except Lois and Clark were already engaged in the comics before Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman had even began to air.

Rewriting the history of the supermarriage by rewriting the history of the supermarriage

Mary H.K. Choi on the Super Powers of Lois Lane

DC: “Lois Lane is dating a colleague at the DAILY PLANET (and his name isn’t Clark Kent) and she has a new position with the paper.”

More info on Lois’ new job

Review: Flashpoint Lois Lane And The Resistance

The End of the Super Marriage is Big News

SDCC ’11 | Lois Lane’s new boyfriend revealed [Updated]

I’m on Team Lois

Superman Gets Super-Cuckolded: A Look at Lois Lane's New Boyfriend, Jonathan Carroll

Meet Lois Lane’s new boyfriend in Superman #1

Superman #1 Lois’ new boyfriend - readable pages

Drawing Crazy Patterns – You Could be Lois Lane’s Twin!


Miscellaneous:

Help bring back the Secret Six!

Comics, Marketing, and Me


Not Strictly Comics:

Where the Boys Are Not: Does the lack of men in publishing hurt the industry?

Why I Like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

From a queer slasher: FUCK YOU.

It's not because you're pretty...

On this ridiculous Harry Potter v. Twilight debate

Agency and ladies in fiction

things that still baffle me everyday

Dogs and Smurfs

Rambling thoughts on ATLA and Legend of Korra

I think that what may possibly be my favorite thing about the Legend of Korra
In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series

How Not To Eliminate Sexism At Your Battlefield 3 LAN: Ban Women

British MP Calls Attention to the Scourge of “Pink and Princessy” Girls on TV

Dragon Age Anime Feature Releases First Artwork — Of a Female Protagonist?

Joss Whedon Talks Avengers, Female Characters, and Machoness

Sigourney Weaver: “Every Woman You See Has a Secret Action Heroine in Her”

The Ol’ Switcheroo: A Consideration of Gender-Bending in Geek Culture

Form Follows Function: Dressing Your Video Game Characters, and Other Concerns

Canadian LGBT Gamers March in Toronto

20 Reasons to Be Excited About Brave (As If You Weren’t Already)

Mass Effect brings diversity vote to fans

BLACK AND BEHIND THE SCENES

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Catching Up, Part Four: Kevin Keller, LGBTQ in Comics, The Power Within, & more

Kevin Keller:

Archie Comics’ Kevin Keller is getting his own series … AND MARRIED …

Archie Planning KEVIN KELLER Ongoing for February 2012

Now Archie Comics Brings Us Gay Marriage

Kevin Keller, Archie‘s Gay, DADT Referencing Teen Character to Get His Own Monthly

Archie Comics Sues Its co-CEO for Sexual Harrasment

SDCC ’11 | Archie gives Kevin Keller his own series

SDCC ’11 | Dan Parent on the future of Kevin Keller

Archie Comics’ Gay Character Gets Full Series

Gay ‘Archie Comics’ Character Scores Monthly Spin-off

‘Archie’ Comics Are Officially All In On Gay Rights

Now Archie Comics Brings Us Gay Marriage


LGBTQ in Comics:

Exclusive Preview: Generation Hope #9 Addresses Teenage Gay Suicide

1. I can’t recall but I’m pretty sure that neither Tony nor Steve have ever stated their sexuality.

It saddens me that DC has this policy that doesn’t allow their writers to talk about the sexuality of the former Robins unless they are *straight.*

FUCKING WHOA, HOLD ON A SECOND

I find it weird because I feel like they’re presuming that all of their “straight” characters are a 0 on the Kinsey Scale.

Superman's Ex-Girlfriend Lana Lang Tries to Get Clark Kent Out of the Closet [Comic]

Comics We Love: Howard Cruse's 'Stuck Rubber Baby' in Print Again At Last

What else would I post?

Up, Up and Out of the Closet

Looks like Renee will be in the DCnU; Dan Didio on DC and LGBT characters

So, let me get this straight …

Kick Ass LGBT Women: One Year Later

Marcus Bachmann & My Gay Barbarian Connection

Gay Previews 9/2011

Souls Of Splendor

Three #2

Bludgeon #0

Dan DiDio On Gay Characters in the DCnU: Renee Montoya Possibly Confirmed as The Question?

Jeffrey Catherine Jones film preview to screen at San Diego

Comics A.M. | DC’s gay and lesbian heroes, ‘more brooding’ Superman

Look! It Moves! #105 by Adi Tantimedh: Superheroes ‘R SEXXXXXX (Oh, And Gay!)

A Personal History of a Queer Cartoonist and Self Publisher (i.e. Me)

Prism Comics Announces Queer Press Grant Deadline For 2011

Support “Feast of Fun”, Feast on Northwest Press Books!

Prism Comics' "Gay Agenda" Revealed for Comic-Con 2011

My Friday Comic-Con Report: The Future of LGBT Comics is Good

Let’s Talk About Lesbian Batwoman Some More

5 BOOKS FOR LOUNGE CHAIR READING

Coming out in comics: Poison Ivy

Previews for Gays, July 2011

DC Relaunch: Batman Vs Chip Kidd

HuffPost Features Not One But TWO Articles on LGBT Comics Creators!

'Beefcake Heroes': Joe Phillips Brings Gay Superheroes Out Of The Closet (PHOTOS)

Review: Friend of Dorothy #2


The Power Within:

Preview: The Power Within, A Comic About Gay Teen Bullying

Pro-Gay Comic Taps 'The Power Within' To Combat Bullying

The Power Within


The Pride:

The Pride: queer superheroes

I actually took a look at the previews and… this isn’t something I would support as a queer person.


Wandering Son:

Wandering Son

Manga Review: Wandering Son Reveals Softer Side of Gender-Bending

Catching Up, Part Three: Women & Numbers, Friends of Lulu, Geek Girls, & more

Female readers and comics creators, women and superheroes, statistics/numbers, etc:

DC Comics to female readers: we’re just not that into you

Women and superheroes: We’re just not that into you?

All the Comics in the World: Sexism

Women In Comics Revisited

Committed: Women in Comics

Women in comics: They’re now, they’re wow — get used to it

The World Has Already Changed LinkBlogging: Women, Collectibility, Miniseries, and Gary Groth

Readership Statistics, I: Participant Information

Readership Statistics, II: Perceptions of Gender

Readership Statistics, III: The Role of Content

Readership Statistics IV: The Role of Marketing

Readership Statistics IV: The Role of Marketing

One More Insult

An open letter to DC Comics

There Are Actually LESS Female Characters In The DC Relaunch Than There Are Now

Introducing Ladydrawers

In Comics World, Women Are Invisible - Except When They're Naked

No Great Women Comics Artists?

Women In Comics Statistics: DC, June 8, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: Marvel, June 8, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: DC, June 15, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: Marvel, June 15, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: DC, June 22, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: Marvel, June 22, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: DC, June 29, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: Marvel, June 29, 2011

Gendercrunching June 2011 – Dark Horse To The Rescue

Women In Comics Statistics: DC, July 6, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: Marvel, July 6, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: DC, July 13, 2011

Women In Comics Statistics: Marvel, July 13, 2011

The Hard Numbers Say There are Less Female Characters in the DCnU As Well

Women and comics - the best of frienemies

Marvel’s September Lady Percentage: 5%

What do you want from women in comics?


Friends of Lulu:

Friends of Lulu Done and Gone

A New Hope For Friends Of Lulu!

What Went Wrong With Friends of Lulu? A Postmortem Interview

How To Be Burned By An Internet "Reporter" -- And The Zooey Deschanel vs. Patt Morrison Case


Geek Girls:

Why Question Geek Girl Cred

Are you questioning Miss USA's geek cred?


Green Lantern movie:

Fans got their first taste of the infamous Dr. Amanda Waller, courtesy of actress Angela Bassett, in Green Lantern (2011)

July Link Love: X-Men First Class, Green Lantern, and Other Tidbits

Fantastic Fangirls Podcast # 4: Green Lantern


Harley Quinn:

Interview With The Gorgeous Harley Quinn

SDCC HARLEYPALOOZA PROTEST - how to be involved even if you’re not going!!!

Harely Quinn DCU redesign

Agent of S.T.Y.L.E.: The High End Fashion of Harley Quinn!

Flashpoint reboot: Ridiculous

The New Harley Quinn Costume... Adapted for a Male Superhero

Catching Up, Part Two: Catwoman, Chester 5000, DC Reboot, & more

Catwoman:

First Glimpse at Catwoman from Batman:Year One short

Catwoman needs plunging cleavage to be sexy? Zip it!

Anne Hathaway WILL wear Catwoman costume in DARK KNIGHT RISES


Chester 5000 XYV:

Chester 5000 XYV

Chester 5000 XYV


DC Reboot/DCnU:

DCnU M.I.A. - Top Heroes MISSING From DC's REVAMP

DC Comics to female readers: we’re just not that into you

The Definition of Insanity: DC To Spend Millions Preaching To The Choir

DC’s New Target Audience Is Younger, Still Male

She Has No Head! – Yet Another Pass At A DC 52…

BUSTED! Fact-checking Ten MYTHS About the DCnU

Saopbox: Women In Comics and DC's Not-So-Diverse Reboot

Open Letter to DC Comics, Part 3: Marketing Fail, Or Why Not Go After Truly New Readers?

[Spoilers] DC’s Surprise Ending To JLA #58 May Explain A Missing Character In The Relaunch

DC-Women-Kicking-Ass Tell DC: Pick Up the Money Sitting on the Table

More thoughts on DC's cunning new marketing strategy

And you thought cosplaying Starfire was hard BEFORE.

DC’s New Target Audience Is Younger, Still Male

Is October Boobtober for DC this year?

Is DC gunning for big sales in October?

DC's September's previews reviewed

JL: The B-List

Potential DCnU full JLA line-up identified

Who is the mystery woman in the potential new DCnU JLA?

Johns confirms the JLA new line-up; Mystery of DCnU female member deepens

Just who is this mysterious new member of Birds of Prey?

Notes from the DC Roadshow: Well, that’s that, isn’t it?

DC Comics to female readers: we’re just not that into you

Don’t catch the girl germs!

There Are Actually LESS Female Characters In The DC Relaunch Than There Are Now

Dan DiDio On Gay Characters in the DCnU: Renee Montoya Possibly Confirmed as The Question?

Quote of the day | Corrina Lawson, on DC Comics and female readers

Posted this on DC's Facebook Page

Quote of the day | Corrina Lawson, on DC Comics and female readers

Justice League tweaks I'd like to see.

Is this the worst costume for Zatanna ever?

I am so glad that Vixen is back JLI.


Devin Grayson:

Devin Grayson

Plastic surgery dystopia novel Uglies becomes a manga, and a movie


Disability in comics:

Talking Comics with Tim | Rus Wooton

uhg


Dwayne McDuffie:

What Comic-Con International Wouldn't Print

The Dwayne McDuffie tribute Comic-Con International wouldn't print

It's just never going to change, is it?

S.D. Comic-Con News: The Dwayne McDuffie Tribute That Wasn’t

CCI apologizes for asking Matt Wayne to change his Dwayne McDuffie tribute

It is 2011, right?


Emily Carroll:

Fun with Storytelling: Emily Carroll

Webcomic alert: Emily Carroll’s The Prince and the Sea”

Emily Carroll!


Flannery O'Connor:

Flannery O’Connor Also Drew Comics. And Yes, We Will Be Able to See Them

Flannery O’Connor: Cartoonist

Catching up, Part One: Akira, Anne Rice, Batgirls, Oracle, & Blue Beetle

Akira:

'AKIRA' Live-Action Film Dead, Chris Weston's Bike Redesign Lost to the Ages

Nevermind, Live-Action 'AKIRA' Movie Still Happening with 'Unknown' Director

Akira movie update

Reports of Akira‘s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

The Live-Action Akira Remake Is Dead. Long Live, Live-Action Akira Remake.

Akira movie updatey


Anne Rice Comics:

Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire' Goes Graphic

Ashley Marie Witter: Bringing Ann Rice’s Vampires to Life


Batgirls & Oracle:

Batgirl Rises

So, Steph…

Cassandra Cain is the Best Comic Character

*sigh*

*sigh* I admit, I have not read the entire "Gail, Jill & Babs" article on Newsarama.

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She’s a more seasoned and nuanced character because she’s not in a wheelchair?

Batgirl to keep Oracle backstory in DC relaunch

DC’s racefail, featuring Cass Cain

Frank Miller Owns Batman: “thank you. i love you.”

“Spoiler Was Gonna Die” – Inside The DC Writer Meeting That Killed Stephanie Brown

Give Batgirl The Chair by Eric Glover

Some Math on Barbara Gordon as Batgirl

Batgirl Can Walk Again; What's The Big Deal?

Batgirl and the Big, Gay Wheelchair

Dan Didio says Stephanie Brown is in the DCnU

Dan Didio says Stephanie Brown is in the DCnU

A Paralysis of Ethics: Batgirl and Disability Invisibility

That cover to Batgirl #2 - is Barbara Gordon being “deaged”?

Characters who don’t have disabilities are more seasoned and nuanced! You heard it here first!

DC writer talks about killing Stephanie Brown in War Games: “it was really seedy”

TV Guide first look at Lee’s Babs/Batgirl: “she’s in full health”

Didio and Lee on the DCnU: “Barbara Gordon was always going to be the strongest Batgirl”

Facebook page highlights strength of Barbara Gordon as Oracle

More DCnU news from the DC Road show; updates on Batgirl (s)!

Retailer FAQ reveals transition of Barbara Gordon to Batgirl

Quick, someone give me $10,000; Original TV Batgirl costume up for auction

Batgirl Year One: new interview with Beatty and Dixon

Dear DC Comics,

This post is called “Nev has quit DC and has anime and manga instead and is a happier person”

Things We Saw Today: A New Shot of Batgirl

Quote of the day | DC on Barbara Gordon, Batgirl and continuity

Batgirl: Silent Running


Would you accept this Oracle substitute?


Batgirl #23 Play-by-Play

also as predicted my LCS guy gave me Red Robin and I was too shy to say no

I’m not opposed to her losing a fight- if someone outthinks her, has superpowers, augmentation whatever a multitude of options

Yeah Dylan did not always do a fabulous job writing Cass (and Babs) but he DID do some really good issues

I love Barbara Gordon as Batgirl.

My name is Eric Glover, and I believe that Barbara’s not broken because you already fixed her.


Blue Beetle:

Bedard: DCnU BLUE BEETLE, 'Spider-Man Meets Green Lantern'

Damn you DC! Bedard’s Blue Beetle sounds terrific

Best DCnU Interview To-Date: Tony Bedard on Blue Beetle