This week sees the release of Sexy Chix, a collection of comics created by women writers and artists. Contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, Jill Thompson, and Roberta Gregory. Dark Horse has excerpts, and Warren Ellis has posted panels from Laurenn McCubbin's collaboration with Oates.

Don't let the title fool you-this isn't your average collection of comics featuring impossibly proportioned vixens in spandex. This time around the sexy chix in question are the writers and artists behind the comics, respresenting some of the best and brightest talent contributing to the medium of comics and graphic novels today. With stories ranging from mainstream adventures to hilarious comic shorts to heart-wrenching autobiography, Sexy Chix is devoted to the under-recognized contingent of female cartoonists in an overwhelmingly male-oriented industry. It's about time these divinely talented creators get to tell the stories they want to, and the result is an exquisite variety of artistic visions and styles.

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NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

JAN 26, 2006 06:50 PM

It's really hard to hold back from making a stupid "silly rabbit!" reference here, so I'll just get it out of the way.

Proceed.

TedKoppel

Glendale, AZ

March 2004

JAN 26, 2006 06:58 PM

I'm out of work at the moment, but I'll probably get around to that soonish.

captainoats

Bronxville, NY

September 2005

JAN 26, 2006 07:57 PM

Is there anything Joyce Carol Oates can't do?

JimmyKitty

Oakland, CA

January 2006

JAN 26, 2006 08:05 PM

I'm looking forward to this book. I've heard about it for a while now, perhaps it will lead to a sequel because this volume doesn't hit every female working in the sequential art form / industry.

But I'm glad to see many of the influential and pioneering women in this book get credit and get their stories out to the public. It's not always a man's world in comics.

MC_escher

Irvine, CA

May 2003

JAN 26, 2006 11:01 PM

jill thompson is kewl. she did sandman spin-offs and 'manga'! if you buy them and read them, then you will be kewl too! READ THEM! KEWL! YAY!
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TedKoppel

Glendale, AZ

March 2004

JAN 26, 2006 11:04 PM

MC_escher said:
KEWL!

Stop that.

MightyTick

Albany, NY

December 2005

JAN 26, 2006 11:34 PM

at least when I spell things wrong it is because I'm stupid....

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