Tag Sociology
Women in Refrigerators — 13 years later
It was 13 years ago that an "amateur" comics journalist named Gail Simone ran a survey about the phenomenon of "Women in Refrigerators" in comics. That site -- currently housed here -- used the moment of Kyle Rayner came home and found his girlfriend stuffed in the [read more]
The history of sexy women in comics via Black Canary
All week DC Women Kicking Ass has been running polls to pick the favorite artists on various DCU heroines, such as Wonder Woman and Batgirl. It's fun to see the great artists who have drawn these characters over the years. It is also fun to observe how community standards have [read more]
BACK ISSUE #54 presents “The LIberated Ladies of Comics”
Even if you feel Big Barda does not speak for you,, it's hard to dislike that sweet Bruce Timm cover. [read more]
Marketing to women: three case studies
How Sony, Ikea and DC Comics approach marketing to women. Hint: only one of these companies actually tried. [read more]
Cartoonists sound off on sex problems
Grace Bello has taken the bold step of going to cartoonists and asking them for sex advice --
and posting the results on Nerve. The results may shock you. Not really, but we had to say that, just because "cartoonists" and "sex" were long considered a bad match [read more]
Marvel’s women problems past and present: when Ms. Marvel got raped
Yesterday's comments by Tom Brevoort on the lack of sales support for female characters at Marvel did not go unnoticed by the usual gender issue commentators. [read more]
Actual Asian person Ken Watanabe potentially offered role in AKIRA remake
The long on-again, off-again life action Akira movie is decidedly on again at Warners, with Jaume Collet-Sera to direct Steve Kloves script. Given that AKIRA is a worldwide classic of anime and Japanese film in general that hugely influenced both animation and the cyberpunk movement, it seems ripe for reinvention [read more]
America’s basement dwelling population growing
Over the three years (!) of the Great Recession, it's been noted many times that the Fantasy Economy has held up better than many other segments. Yes, comics sales are down overall, but they took a while to take a hit and rebounded strongly when something interesting happened (New 52.)
But [read more]
NYCC: “Men, if you are here to get laid, leave. Ladies, if you here to get laid, take your pick.”
This article on the "Speed Dating" sessions at the recent New York Comic Con paint an interesting picture of the social dynamics of Nerd World, especially with the growing participation of women
due to the anime and Vampire influences. [read more]
Sexy comic book women = “weird.”
I don't know who Richard Famous is -- a gay British man who makes little-watched YouTube videos -- but what he has to say about "the brokeback pose" and how hyper-sexualization depowers female comics characters is pretty dead on. [read more]
Dont forget: this weekend is GeekGirl Con in Seattle
This weekend, the first female-centric comics convention in many a year takes place in Seattle, with Geek Girl Con. Jennifer de Guzman has a great write-up at PW: [read more]
Gender battles: Miyazaki is shocked to see a woman driving a bus
It might come as a shock that Hayao Miyazaki, the revered animator behind such enduring and magical characters as Totoro and Nausicaa -- a creator whose body of work nearly defines entertainment that everyone can enjoy -- might have some odd ideas about women animators but that's what this [read more]
The day in gender battles: fight the crap or wallow in the good?
"Perhaps this inability to find something appropriate to wear is related to her new characterization. An alien who can’t tell one human male from another probably has trouble understanding American sizing, or fitting rooms. However, since she makes it clear that, like all her people, she’ll have sex with anyone [read more]
Meanwhile…what is Marvel Comics doing to its women?
September has been New 52 month and Marvel has been silently sitting on the sidelines waiting for her chance to get a dance with the homecoming king at the school dance, while wondering how her formerly drab rival managed to catch his attention.
But while they haven't been getting all [read more]
Everyone is talking about sex and the superheroes!
Well, we didn't want to have another whole ink dump devoted to the New 52 but...there has been so much reaction to the Week 3 books and their various portrayals of the ladies that there was more than enough material.
§ For some much needed perspective, Newsarama looks back on [read more]
New Teen Titan is out and proud — but will gay readers embrace him?
After some comments on Twitter surfaced, TEEN TITANS artist Brett Booth has confirmed that a new titan to appear in issues #3 is an openly gay teen named Miguel Jose Barragan, a.k.a. Bunker. Scripter Scott Lobdell wrote: [read more]
Lest we forget: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #1 on sale today
This is a landmark day in comics -- no, not because LEGION LOST #1 is coming out. The new ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #1 --featuring the new, multi racial Miles Morales -- is also on sale, making this an even bigger month than we ever thought possible. Marvel just sent out [read more]
CDC teams with Terminus for motion comic to fight AIDs
The Center for Disease Control has contracted with Atlanta's Terminus Media to produce a motion comic to heighten AIDS-awareness for young people aged 15-24 iPads and other devices, Politico reports. The contract is for roughly $145,000. [read more]
SPX: finally someone does right by the women
Can we get a "Hell yeah?" for this weekend's Small Press Expo? As far as all the recent worrying, fretting, funding, snarking and analyzing the numbers of women in comics goes, SPX is a model of how to do it right. As the below PR shows, they have an incredible [read more]
Breaking: Nerd guy rejected by total jerk
In the interests of equal time to our male readers, we'd like to point out this story where a female Gizmodo writer did not feel comfortable dating Magic the Gathering World Champion Jon Finkel after she met him via OK Cupid: [read more]