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Comics: A Cautionary Tale
Nov. 21st, 2006 09:33 amhttp://occasionalsuperheroine.blogspot.com/
This fascinating blog recounts a woman's experiences in the industry. Start with the entries at the bottom and work your way up. Strong stuff, though.
A few notes about the background details.
A couple years ago, DC Comics published Identity Crisis, a mini-series designed to tough up their heroes and make the DC universe more morally ambiguous. It begins with the murder of Sue Dibny, wife of C-list Justice Leaguer the Elongated Man aka Ralph. Ralph and Sue were the Nick and Nora Charles of comics, playfully bantering with each other as they travelled around the world solving mysteries (thanks to Ralph's stretching powers). It was revealed that a supervillain had raped Sue years before, and this resulted in many upstanding heroes giving bad guys lobotomies. Fun, eh?
And it's not the first time DC has published such comics. The Black Canary was abused and tortured, in a way that the character couldn't have babies. Batgirl was tortured and crippled by the Joker.
Needless to say, most comics are written by men.
Oh, and editor Julius Schwartz - the man who revived superhero comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s - was accused of groping women, shortly before his death. When Schwartz died, a tribute book was published.
Allen
This fascinating blog recounts a woman's experiences in the industry. Start with the entries at the bottom and work your way up. Strong stuff, though.
A few notes about the background details.
A couple years ago, DC Comics published Identity Crisis, a mini-series designed to tough up their heroes and make the DC universe more morally ambiguous. It begins with the murder of Sue Dibny, wife of C-list Justice Leaguer the Elongated Man aka Ralph. Ralph and Sue were the Nick and Nora Charles of comics, playfully bantering with each other as they travelled around the world solving mysteries (thanks to Ralph's stretching powers). It was revealed that a supervillain had raped Sue years before, and this resulted in many upstanding heroes giving bad guys lobotomies. Fun, eh?
And it's not the first time DC has published such comics. The Black Canary was abused and tortured, in a way that the character couldn't have babies. Batgirl was tortured and crippled by the Joker.
Needless to say, most comics are written by men.
Oh, and editor Julius Schwartz - the man who revived superhero comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s - was accused of groping women, shortly before his death. When Schwartz died, a tribute book was published.
Allen
