Why Have There Been No Great Women Comic-Book Artists?

[Kire]

With a dual-venue exhibition in Los Angeles, comics by masters such as Winsor McCay, Chris Ware, and Charles Schulz have been elevated from pop culture to fine art. But as these artists receive their due, the show has sparked debate over the rightful place of women in the comic canon

http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?type=feature&art_id=1924

[cleofus1]

1. my dear kire

never speak in absolutes...

[Kire]

2. just copying and pasting an article

I do not endorse or oppose the viewpoint of the author

[cleofus1]

3. run away!

run away!

ok...there are not a shitload of them...but the are some very notable women in the comic book field!

[Kire]

4. I'm outta here

:hide:

[cleofus1]

5. no grasshopper

stay and bask in the glow that is Wendy Pini!



here is her very popular work

[cleofus1]

6. and of course the one and only

Ramona Fradon!

[semillama]

10. Hands down, my all time favorite artist

met her when i was like 10 or something, she was giving a lecture at Michigan Technological University and she was showing pages from Book 3, I think.

what a super person. I really miss the heyday of elfquest, when they expanded out with the multiple titles. Brandon McKinney, where are you?

and there was a brazilian artist whose work took my breath away, i forget his name.

[philosophie_en_rose]

13. I'm disappointed they sold out to DC.

:(

I just bought the first two of the newest miniseries. It's. . . stale. And the photoshop coloring obscures the details. :(

Classic Elfquest is way up on my list of favorites. I like Brandon McKinney and the original WaveDancers. I detested the art of the guy that did a lot of the other titles though - Barry something.

[cleofus1]

7. and

the most revered Marie Severin

[cleofus1]

8. and one of my personal faves

Trina Robbins!

[cleofus1]

9. currently

sandra chang is the fanboys wet dream...

[dwckabal]

11. What?

Jill Thompson
Coleen Doran
Carla Speed-McNeil

[robertarctor]

12. Uh, you must not be reading a lot of comics

Julie Doucet, Mary Fleener, Carol Tyler, Carol Lay, Aline Kominsky-Crumb ...

[FVZA_Colonel]

14. Not to mention a Canadian woman by the name of Pia Guerra,

one of the co-creators of the phenominal Y: The Last Man.