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In Comics World, Women Are Invisible - Except When They're Naked

Tuesday, 05 July 2011 05:28 By Anne Elizabeth Moore and Sara Drake, Truthout | Graphic Journalism

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In an arena where female characters don't often get a spotlight unless they're naked, women comics artists have a tough time getting the acclaim they deserve. For example, the "Masters of Comics" exhibition in 2005 - an attempt to create an American comic canon - featured all male comics artists. Today's edition of Ladydrawers delves into this world of ingrown sexism and gender barriers.

Ladydrawers, a new semimonthly comics collaboration, looks at the reasons behind gender bias in the media and in the comics world, and the impact that these dynamics have in both realms.

Click here or on the comic below to open it in a new window and click again to zoom in.

Sara Drake

Sara Drake is a cartoonist and maze-maker who currently resides on the Internet. Her work is displayed in official and not-so-official places. She likes short walks on the beach and candlelit geodesic domes, and she hates jerks. She is the author of the self-published comic, "Small Advices," and the former editor of Xerox Candy Bar. Visit her blog by clicking here.

Anne Elizabeth Moore

Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar and author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of now-defunct Punk Planet, founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects. Her latest book, Cambodian Grrrl (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), was called "The best travel book I've read this year," by a USA Today reviewer and "piercingly honest" by The Rumpus.