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susannah_breslin

susannah_breslin

I'm lost
June 2005

DEC 01, 2005 01:56 PM

"Why Have There Been No Great Women Comic-Book Artists?" asks Carly Berwick in ARTnews. The essay uses "Masters of American Comics," the new show of comics-as-art at UCLA's Hammer Museum, as a launching pad to consider the role of women in the comic-book canon. As it turns out, there are 15 masters in the Hammer show, and none of them are women. Berwick summons Trina Robbins and Jessica Abel to fill in the gaps.

The appeal of “male” comics to women—and of “women’s” comics to male readers—was limited until the genre began to evolve beyond such distinctions, becoming more narrative and more focused on recognizable realities and emotions than on fantasies about spaceships and superheroes. It is a nice irony that Crumb, whose pneumatic women and lascivious hippies have been called misogynistic, may have inspired more women to enter the field. The ranks of well-known comic artists now include such women as Lynda Barry (One Hundred Demons and other graphic novels), Gregory (“Naughty Bits”), Marisa Acocella (“Cancer Vixen”), Sue Coe (a former contributor to Spiegelman’s RAW) and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who coauthored, with her husband R. Crumb, Dirty Laundry, about the travails of modern cohabitation.

There are so many women now in the field that the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) in New York will mount an all-female exhibition called “She Draws Comics,” running from May through September 2006.

via Arts & Letters Daily

boundcreature

boundcreature

Boston, MA
April 2004

DEC 01, 2005 02:29 PM

Colleen Doran.
Jill Thompson.
Rebecca Guay.

huzzah_octopus

huzzah_octopus

Austin, TX
November 2004

DEC 01, 2005 02:55 PM

boundcreature said:
Jill Thompson.



HELL YEAH! She worked on the one of the greatest comics of all time, The Invisibles.

StickyRice

StickyRice

Atlanta, GA
January 2003

DEC 01, 2005 02:58 PM

Hm. Julie Doucet.

machfive

machfive

Minneapolis, MN
August 2003

DEC 01, 2005 03:48 PM

Carla Speed McNeil does one of the greatest books of the last 10 years, "Finder".

And she may not be big by fanboy standards, but Amanda Conner has a crisp style, clean linework and has done some classic pieces with warrenellis, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, etc etc.

gauss

gauss

I'm lost
September 2005

DEC 01, 2005 04:02 PM

machfive said:
Carla Speed McNeil does one of the greatest books of the last 10 years, "Finder".



hell yes!

_DictionaryGirl_

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

DEC 02, 2005 12:02 AM

Because I haven't written a book yet.





What? shocked wink

StickyRice

StickyRice

Atlanta, GA
January 2003

DEC 02, 2005 12:46 AM

_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Because I haven't written a book yet.





What? shocked wink



Do it! smile

googused

googused

Portland, OR
OLD SKOOL

DEC 02, 2005 01:34 AM

Marie Severin has been around since the 50s

Serragengar

Serragengar

United Kingdom
November 2004

DEC 02, 2005 05:47 AM

They're forgetting that there are hundreds of successful female Japanese manga artists, and a lot of work by them is published in the states. Maybe it's because it's seen as being more socially acceptable to read comics over there.

FleurDeGuerre

FleurDeGuerre

United Kingdom
August 2004

DEC 02, 2005 06:12 AM

Chynna Clugston is a laydee. And she rocks.

Serragengar

Serragengar

United Kingdom
November 2004

DEC 02, 2005 06:14 AM

Nefertari said:
Chynna Clugston is a laydee. And she rocks.



I forgot ^_^; Yay Blue Monday!

artsaves1228

artsaves1228

Puyallup, WA
February 2005

DEC 02, 2005 06:14 AM

me! well someday i want to do cover art for comics! biggrin but im a chick!

SomethingStupid

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA
March 2004

DEC 02, 2005 06:43 AM

The lack of a lot female comic book artists has a lot to do with the fact that there aren't tons of comics aimed at women, which itself stems from the fact that comics originally targeted young boys exclusively. When my sister and her husband were illustration majors, each had a goal that they later found out was pretty much the same as every other person of their sex in their major: he wanted to illustrate comics and she wanted to illustrate children's books.

Edit: I should read the first post before I go jumping in to answer the question. blush

[Edited on Dec 02, 2005 by TedKoppel]

Zofia

Zofia

Australia
June 2004

DEC 02, 2005 06:46 AM

Amanda Conner. I love her style.

Maude

Maude

I'm lost
July 2005

DEC 02, 2005 06:54 AM

When my sister and her husband were illustration majors, each had a goal that they later found out was pretty much the same as every other person of their sex in their major: he wanted to illustrate comics and she wanted to illustrate children's books.



i've always wanted to do a children's-style book in which the content was more like a comic....

mostly because i still like to draw with crayons but i don't like kids. tongue

[Edited on Dec 02, 2005 by Maude]

SomethingStupid

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA
March 2004

DEC 02, 2005 07:14 AM

Maude said:

When my sister and her husband were illustration majors, each had a goal that they later found out was pretty much the same as every other person of their sex in their major: he wanted to illustrate comics and she wanted to illustrate children's books.



i've always wanted to do a children's-style book in which the content was more like a comic....

mostly because i still like to draw with crayons but i don't like kids. tongue

[Edited on Dec 02, 2005 by Maude]


When I took a high school class, we had an assignment to write a children's book using what we'd learned in said class. I didn't feel like we'd learned shit, resented the hell out of the assignment, and in a day or so wrote a children's story that I thought would most fuck a child up. Something about scientists kidnapping a child and putting their mind on a television display. Crayon drawings would've been nice - I used stick figures since I can't draw.

LinkIsMyHero

LinkIsMyHero

USA
February 2005

DEC 02, 2005 07:20 AM

StickyRice said:
Hm. Julie Doucet.



YES

so this is a plotte...

Anissa

Anissa

Detroit, MI
March 2004

DEC 02, 2005 10:27 AM

I third Chynna Glugston - Major.
The girl is bad. Do you hear me?
And she's everywhere!

Blue Monday
Scooter Girl <---- her titles

Hopeless Savages
Jingle Belle
The Atomics
Cut My Hair <----worked on

Not to mention doing work for Marvel and Dark Horse.

*snap snap snap* C'mon people catch up with the rest of the class.



biggrin

EndedBen

EndedBen

Grand Rapids, MI
August 2004

DEC 02, 2005 10:33 AM

Because even in a male dominated field there's only a handful of Great artists?

[Edited on Dec 02, 2005 by SuperNintendo]

JumpStreet

JumpStreet

Davenport, FL
January 2004

DEC 02, 2005 09:06 PM

Zofia said:
Amanda Conner. I love her style.



Ditto that . . .

Cigarette

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH
April 2004

DEC 02, 2005 09:07 PM

machfive said:
Carla Speed McNeil does one of the greatest books of the last 10 years, "Finder".



Is that where we get Holden McNeil?

Cheech

Cheech

Portland, OR
January 2003

DEC 03, 2005 07:44 AM

It could be because they're only talking about (trite, vapid, action-movie-esque, old) superhero comics rather than interesting (substantive, funny, compelling, recent) ones.

SomethingStupid

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA
March 2004

DEC 03, 2005 07:51 AM

Cheech said:
It could be because they're only talking about (trite, vapid, action-movie-esque, old) superhero comics rather than interesting (substantive, funny, compelling, recent) ones.


Did you actually look at anything being talked about, or are you just ranting out of habit?

CarrotJuice

CarrotJuice

Dublin, OH
January 2005

DEC 03, 2005 10:28 AM

How could you forget Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner? Her artwork is like a perpetual acid trip.

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