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.
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.
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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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susannah_breslin
I'm lost
June 2005
JAN 26, 2006 06:43 PM