![]() Line creators were women, and 12% of their canceled strips were done by women. ![]() She notes, for example that inĢ011, as DC opened their new line of comics, The New 52, only 1% of the new Underrepresented in the major publishing houses. Notes that women creators/artists/inkers are still significantly Successes and disappointments of the 21 st Century (so far). It was also one of the only publishers whoĬhapter 8: 21 st Century Foxes" relays the Robbins notes, however, that while other comics had women asįoils for the hero to rescue, only the Fiction House comics had women inīy Jerry Iger and Will Eisner was also the company that hired more womenĬartoonists than any of the others. Other comics followed with female spies,įemale commandos and undercover agents soon followed.īrenda Starr: Reporter by Dale Messick - image from ![]() Snow-covered slopes, and got marooned on desert islands. Planes, joined girl gangs, escaped from kidnappers, almost froze to death in ![]() Dale Messick’s Brenda Starr, forĮxample, paved the way with a Rita Hayworth-like reporter who parachuted from Were now more involved men’s world – both in the story content and in their While earlier comics had been about cuteĪnimals and kids and pretty girls out to have fun in a carefree world, women Robbins notes that movies, pulp fiction and the new medium ofĬomic books all echoed the action-oriented themes of war. ![]() Chapter 4: “Blonde Bombers and Girl Commandos " reflects America in 1940’s – a country teetering on ![]()
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