“My friends and I were reading them.”īrendan Fletcher, writer of Batgirl, described how collaborating with women influences his work and gender portrayals. “I knew damn well that wasn’t true,” Robbins said. for being “girl comics.” The publishers believed that girls didn’t read comics. Once she started working in the industry in the 1970s and 1980s, she felt it when her work was rejected from Marvel and D.C. Female characters were strong then, she said. Asked when she first became aware of gender in comics, artist and comics historian Trina Robbins ( From Girls to Grrrlz, Pretty in Ink) noted that she wasn’t aware of it as a child in the 1940s and 1950s. The first panel, titled “His, Hers, and Theirs: Gender and Comics” discussed how gender is portrayed in comics, the visibility of different gender identities, and the lack of representation in comics. The news rippled through the four-hour-long event, but didn’t alter the conversation: Diversity is still needed in today’s comics and comics industry. The timing of the conversation was particularly prescient-just hours before the first panel commenced, the US Supreme Court announced its decision legalizing gay marriage in the United States. GraphiCon 2015, a mini-conference sponsored by ALA’s Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries Member Initiative Group held during the 2015 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco, kicked into action on Friday afternoon with a forum featuring comic artists and writers exploring diversity in comics, particularly in regards to gender and LGBTQ representation.
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