Tag Archive | "sexism"

Comics: Women at the British Comic Awards

Friday, November 30, 2012

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I have been thinking a lot about women, comics and sexism in the past few months, working out thoughts, ideas and gearing up to write something. This was not how I intended my first piece on the issue to be. Earlier in the week, the Forbidden Planet International blog carried a short interview with 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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Sexism flame wars in comics form

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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Gabby’s Playhouse looks at the ranting, often illogical (and bloody infuriating) world of sexist ranting and flame wars online through the medium of comics (link via BoingBoing): (comic by and (c) Gabby Schulz, check his site for the full strip)

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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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“an all woman jury, charmed by his English accent”

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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Following the recent news that the latest in the long, drawn out legal moves between Todd McFarlane and Neil Gaiman regarding Spawn characters based on others previously created by Gaiman, in which the judge found in favour of Gaiman, Erik Larsen has been the voice of cool, thoughtful, measured, impartial reason. Or actually he hasn’t, [...]

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