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I’ve been thinking a lot about costumes for female comic characters recently. First because of those redesigns of some costumes that covered everything up. And then because of a long discussion Kelly and I had with designed Kris Anka about his redesigns of costumes for X-Men including Psylocke and Storm. And of course there were the designs for Power Girl, Huntress and Green Lantern based on kids’ costumes.
And before I go any further let’s be clear. I don’t mind female costumes that show skin. I’ve posted before about how so much of a costume is dependent on the artist. And you also have to have some leeway on the character. Emma Frost owns her costume. When Amanda Conner was drawing Power Girl, she did too. So let’s just all agree the whole “prude” label is bullshit, okay?
But earlier today I saw that DC had posted a page from the Phantom Stranger #8 showcasing a new character - Nightmare Nurse, Mystic M.D. Let’s ignore for second that name which manage to conflate a nurse and doctor - hey, it’s comics! But as soon as I saw that name and as soon as so the teaser I sighed. I knew what I was going to see when I clicked. This character wasn’t going to channel a medical nurse or doctor it was going to channel the “naughty nurse” that fill the ladies’ aisle during Halloween.
And one click later, well heh, I was right:
This is just the worn out paradigm of women wither being sweet and innocent, or a deceiving, Jezebel seductress. If she’s a villain, she’s dangerous and sexy. A homewrecker, somewhere for wandering eyes to land.
It’s played, insulting and not that creative. I agree, skin isn’t evil, but making the character use her ‘femininity’ and her body for evil is way over played.
“Hey I’ve got a great idea let’s make the next Green Lantern a Muslim American.”
“Yeah! That is a great idea! It’d be awesome to diversify our lineup.”
“Hey I have another great idea: for his origin story let’s put him in a ski mask and give him a gun and make him look scary as shit.”
“That is also brilliant. You are brilliant.”
If he has the ring, why does he need a gun?
D.C. Launches First Ever Transgender Respect Ad Campaign
Yes, good.
I will respect these posters forever because they put a genderfluid/genderqueer/whatever person. That is normally so overlooked.
This campaign has a lot of awesome stuff going for it.
1) Transgender PoC make up about half the face of the campaign.
2) There is a genderqueer person (!!) and their caption respectfully uses “person” instead of man or woman.
3) Plus-sized trans* people for the win!
4) Finally a campaign explicitly for trans* people that emphasizes our deserving respect and courtesy.
5) The transgender women and men are included in “any woman/man” which is huge because it emphasizes that trans* women and men are women and men too; it leaves no room for argument and doesn’t turn it into a debate about genitals.
6) Emphasis on our being a part of the communities we live in. We aren’t any different than anyone else.
I really love the DC Transgender Respect campaign and I wish more states and cities would launch stuff like this!
- Jax
^^^ All very good and true. I saw this floating around months ago, and I’m glad it’s back, because it is a great example of how to do a visibility campaign in a way that is really inclusive and honest and respectful.
Way to go DC.
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I pretty much love everything about this. NYC, why don’t we do this?
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Hey guys.
I’m auctioning off the original art for the Newtown memorial piece I did yesterday, with 100% of the proceeds benefitting the Newtown Connecticut Youth & Family Services Center, which has been aiding the victims. You can bid on the art here on eBay.
If you’re not really wanting to bid on it, but still want to donate, that’s even better. You can contribute here.
Please spread the word. You guys are an amazing fan-base. Let’s all help these kids through this difficult time.
-Yale
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Batman: No Man’s Land vol. 4 TP, includes writing by Devin Grayson
In this final NO MAN’S LAND volume, Lex Luthor swoops in to help rebuild Gotham City — but his secret plan is to secure the ownership of much of the city’s real estate! In the chaos of the waning days of the city’s crisis, The Joker strikes, kidnapping a number of infants and killing members of the Gotham City Police Department.
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You may have seen my previous post here about how my 6 year old computer is about to die, and I need a new one to keep making art and comics for you kind people.
To raise the money, I am trying to sell off as much of my original art as I possibly can, so this is me doing that!
Here are the prices!
LBFA Strip “Yes. More.” - $70 (Artist’s note: This is not a great photo, but you can click the link to see the comic in all it’s glory. This is one of my all time favorite strips, so I hope this goes to a good home.)
Superman cooks a hot dog - $25Jimmy Olsen - $25Doop - $20Mary Marvel - $35Kermit the Frog - $10
Conan the Barbarian - $25TL;DR - I’m desperate for $$$ for a new computer before my old one dies, so email me at THECHRISHALEY AT GMAIL if you want to buy any of this original art!
Be sure to check out the art that’s still available on my previous post!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG!
Thank you! I love you!
xo
ch
As some of you may or may not know, I do a lot of comic work.
The majority of this work requires a computer.
My computer is 6 years old and about to die. It is literally crashing all the time and having mad problems with living as a computer should.
To try to raise the money quickly to get a new one before this one dies so I don’t lose any further work related revenue, I am going to start aggressively selling off my original art.
This is me starting that!
Here are the prices!
UPDATED WITH NEW ART!
Gameboy - $75
“World’s Finest” - $75
Batman - $50“Before Watchmen” - $20AstroBoy - $15New 52 Power Girl - $25
Superman - $35
“Handsome” Dexter as M.O.D.O.K. - $20Adventure Time drummer - $25
OMAC & Batman (this is two sketches that are too close to each other to separate, so you get both!) - $50
TL;DR - I’m desperate for $$$ for a new computer before my old one dies, so email me at thechrishaley at gmail if you want to buy any of this original art!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG!
xo
ch
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Green Lantern and Batman from Justice League #5 (2012) by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee.
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Yes. More.
So last week an article hit Bleeding Cool about how Liberalism is hurting comics sales.
Yeah, I mean, Superman wanting to save an oil rig is definitely turning people off as opposed to, oh, I don’t know, high prices, poor quality, a general sense of contempt for some fans, spotty editorial work, Diamond, shitty retail experiences, etc., etc.
It’s the liberalism, definitely.
-cof
