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Comic Strips, Comics, Opinion, Webcomics

Let Me Desire Myself: Sexy Drawings That Don’t Hurt [NSFW]

May 10, 2016

Erotica, one might hope, is intended to make people feel good. Erotica, as has been discussed at length on this site, can cause people to feel bad. All art containing bodies has the potential to push the viewer into a state of comparison. Desiring to encourage reflection upon the differences ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Udon a Bad Thing: Frank Cho, Anuses, and Visual Impact

May 2, 2016

Much like many other areas of culture, monthly direct-market comic books are an industry, a scene, which is largely hostile to women even now, a place where harm is produced and reproduced, and objections are seen as shrill lies told for cheap thrills. I know it’s dull, but let’s ...

Comics, Opinion

Criminal Underrepresentation: Big Hard Sex Questions For Fraction and Zdarsky

April 22, 2016

I was really excited by a tweet I saw from the Women Write About Comics account saying that the site would be spending the month of April focusing on the topic of sex. I’m definitely a casual reader of comics and a casual fan of sex, so I figured it was a match made in heaven.

Con Diaries, Profiles & Primers

Accessibility and Cons: If Comics Are For Everyone, Can Everybody Reach Them?

April 15, 2016

Last time we talked, I discussed my own work as a comics creator and the ways in which I’ve worked to create my own disability representation in comics. This month, I want to delve into an issue that is broader in scope, but in many ways just as vital: accessibility at comic conventions. It’s ...

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Representation & Desire: A Plus Sized Male Model

April 12, 2016

Plus-sized female models are making inroads in mainstream fashion, and while this representation isn’t without its problems, it is telling that the question of plus-sized male models has only recently entered the conversation with the signing of Zach Miko as Target’s first ever ...

Essays

Kill the Fatphobia: Fat Girls in YA

March 17, 2016

Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky is a recent young adult novel about a group of fangirl friends who kidnap a member of their favorite boy band, The Ruperts. The first major description given of Apple, the fat girl in the group, is this: “Apple’s forehead crinkled, and having no food on hand ...

Comics, Opinion, Roundtables, Webcomics

MAN PLUS Take Two (and Three): Araujo’s Midsection

March 9, 2016

Man Plus is currently being published by Titan Comics as a four issue mini; it’s also being serialised for free online through page by page release. Claire and J.A. discuss the second and third issues of Araújo’s Shirowpunk passion project, as they did for part one previously.

Comics, Essays, Opinion

A Man Created My Goddess: Dawn and Me

February 19, 2016

I’m a pretty unabashed feminist. Even as a kid, I drifted towards statements of girl power before I understood the foundations working behind it. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve continually worked on understanding the complexities of feminism and privilege, trying my best to confront my own ...

Comics, Opinion

Misty Knight and the Case of the Ridiculous Males: Bra Holster Hell

February 15, 2016

Alright, you got breasts? Then you don’t need to read this (unless: catharsis?). Not have’em? Sit down and listen. L-i-s-t-e-n. Especially you, Joe Bennet, Nick Spencer, Tom Brevoort. For this is a problem from Feb 3rd’s Captain America: Sam Wilson #6. This is an atrocious and ...

Comics

It’s Hard To Be A Girl: Self Image, or Selling Image?

December 23, 2015

It’s Hard To Be A Girl Bach (creator), Nora Goldberg (translator) Soaring Penguin Press October 2015 I went to the launch for It’s Hard To Be A Girl in late October. The event was, in a word, delightful. Soaring Press organized a very nice evening, held at the Québec Government Office in ...

Size Discrimination

Let Me Desire Myself: Sexy Drawings That Don’t Hurt [NSFW]

Udon a Bad Thing: Frank Cho, Anuses, and Visual Impact

Criminal Underrepresentation: Big Hard Sex Questions For Fraction and Zdarsky

Accessibility and Cons: If Comics Are For Everyone, Can Everybody Reach Them?

Representation & Desire: A Plus Sized Male Model

Kill the Fatphobia: Fat Girls in YA

MAN PLUS Take Two (and Three): Araujo’s Midsection

A Man Created My Goddess: Dawn and Me

Misty Knight and the Case of the Ridiculous Males: Bra Holster Hell

It’s Hard To Be A Girl: Self Image, or Selling Image?

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