Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:15PM3 comments ›
Mon Jul 14, 2008 — by Van Jensen
SLG Editor: Enough Women in Refrigerators
Jennifer de Guzman says sick submissions pile up
For all the discussion about the role of women in comics -- as creators and characters -- apparently more needs to be said, at least judging from the submissions that come in to publisher Slave Labor Graphics.
SLG editor Jennifer de Guzman goes off in a new journal entry, deriding the material she's seeing cross her desk.
Indie and alt comics are still much-dominated by male creators, and in these men's minds, women serve as plot devices that aid in a male development's character. The women are damaged and victimized and usually odd -- like that hot, fucked-up chick in Fight Club, brah! -- and I'm tired of them. Just in this month, only a week old now, I have seen women who have been lured into porn, women who are hookers who teach young men lessons about life, women who were raped by stepfathers, women who are bi-polar and suicidal, women who are naive and long-suffering girlfriends of scumbags, and women who seem pretty cool and normal and then get kidnapped in order for the male protagonists to have something to do by saving her. Women who are never the protagonist.
Guys, STOP IT. The cumulative effect of these crazy/victimized/damaged women submissions -- almost every other envelope I've opened -- has got me wanting to punch someone. And you know where that will lead me: In trouble with the law, I'll slip into the underbelly of society, start a nasty meth habit, turn to prostitution and then have to be saved by the man who has always loved me. Don't let it happen to me. You can be a hero.
(via Journalista)
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Comments (3)
Russ Rogers (8:06 PM on Mon Jul 14, 2008)
Interesting.
Here's a recent blog entry on the abuse of women in Marvel Comics by
mike weber (11:12 PM on Mon Jul 14, 2008)
Het, Russ - y'wanna take another swing at that and include the URL?
Russ Rogers (8:47 AM on Tue Jul 15, 2008)
Oops. Sure, Mike! Here's a recent blog entry on the abuse of female characters in Marvel Comics by ComicMix contributor Alan Klister. http://alankistler.squarespace.com/journal/2008/4/5/kistl...
This has many similar insights to the ones Jeniffer de Guzman makes about how female characters are treated in comics plots.