Tag Archive | "gender"

Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrrlz in Glasgow

Monday, May 14, 2012

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You may remember last week I reported on a fascinating talk Heather Middleton of the Glasgow Women’s Library and the Team Girl Collective gave in Edinburgh’s Central Library on the history of women working in comics (you can read the report and see the pics here). Good new for readers on the other side of [...]

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Women in Comics – Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz in Edinburgh

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Last week I was lucky enough to catch a busy talk in Edinburgh’s Central Library, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Heather Middleton from the Glasgow Women’s Library and also a member of Glasgow-based all-female collective Team Girl Comic. Heather was giving a talk on the history of women in comics and while there is no [...]

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Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz exhibition

Monday, April 30, 2012

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Last week I flagged up the upcoming Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz talk at Edinburgh’s Central Library, which is due to take place this Wednesday evening. The event is now sold out (well, not sold as such, it is free, but limited space meant tickets and those are now all accounted for) so sadly if [...]

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Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Edinburgh’s lovely Central Library (opposite the National Library on George IV Bridge, just one bridge along from the Edinburgh FPI as it happens) is holding a very interesting-sounding event next week, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Illustrator and zinemaker Heather Middleton will give a talk on on the diverse types of comics created by female [...]

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Leah Moore on women and comics

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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The debate on gender and comics – both representation of gender and the gender divides in readership – is pretty much a perpetual, ongoing discussion in the comics world, but over on Warren Ellis’ site the excellent Leah Moore posts a guest blog discussing female readers and fan girls, not just in the regular comics [...]

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Invisible Girls and Phantom Ladies – Alan Moore on comics and gender

Monday, January 9, 2012

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The comics – especially the mainstream capes’n'tights comics – and charges of poor gender portrayal and indeed outright sexism are, sadly, not strangers to each other. Both in terms of the inequality in numbers of female creators and in the way women, even incredibly powerful superheroines, have been portrayed the medium has, often rightly, come [...]

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Women in comics

Friday, December 16, 2011

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Anand Chandy heads to the comic convention (complete with finger puppets!) to ask about women in comics in this short but pretty interesting video:

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The secret history of women in comics

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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This interesting panel was recorded at the recent Small Press Expo (SPX) last month and was described in the programme thusly: “The increased involvement of women in the comics field over the past several years has been a significant positive change in a historically male-dominated industry. However, just as it’s worth celebrating this progressive revolution, [...]

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Pat Mills talks girl’s comics

Friday, August 12, 2011

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The Bring Back Bunty blog talks to the excellent Pat Mills about comics for girls, once a part of the thriving UK comics publishing industry (I remember racks full of all sorts of weekly comics for girls alongside the boy’s own and younger reader’s kids, the newsagents were stacked with them in the 70s), now [...]

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Women and Science Fiction – Are you a misogynist?

Monday, June 27, 2011

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There has been quite an amount of traffic on the subject of women and science fiction writing in the last four weeks. Inspired by the British Library Exhibition (see report here on the blog), BBC 4 Woman’s Hour had a segment on the perception of science fiction as a male-dominated genre which aired at the [...]

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Ethnicity in 20th Century American Comics

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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Panel Borders alerts us to a talk by the Victoria & Albert’s comics expert Ian Rakoff; Ian will be looking into representations of race and gender in early 20th century American comics with  a talk entitled Ethnicity in 20th Century American Comics from The Yellow Kid to Tarzan at Oxford University’s Institute of Social and [...]

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Women in Comics conference

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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Sarah Lightman kindly sends us a heads-up on the Women in Comics one-day conference which is scheduled for Sunday October 25th at Murray Edwards College New Hall in Cambridge: “A one day conference, ‘Women in Comics’ will take place on the 25th October 2009. With its unique collection of 20th Century Women’s Art, The New [...]

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