Not a Boys’ Club Anymore : A List of Female-Centric Comics

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  • Not a Boys’ Club Anymore: A List of Female-Centric #Comics

    Comics are bigger than ever, both in our mainstream pop culture and in the world of literature, literary criticism and academia. As someone who grew up in a house full of comics – and grew to love them – this is awesome news!

    But the not-so-awesome news: many of the comics that garner critical or public attention are woefully male-centric. Take a look at what’s made it to the big screen in recent years: The Avengers has Black Widow, X-Men has Mystique, and The Dark Knight Rises shoehorned Catwoman in for about three seconds (and for sex appeal) – but that’s it. I want to rejoice at the major presence of comics in our culture, but I find it difficult to do so when we only acknowledge and invest ourselves, both emotionally and financially, in the same male-centric stories. We push and we shove worthy female characters aside in order to spotlight the heroic journey (or the tragic downfall) of the straight white male – a journey that we’ve seen countless times before. Even in large casts, the presence of the token female or love interest fail, in a pretty spectacular way, to represent the multitude of female characters and female-centric comics that exist in this expansive and diverse art form.

    The following list honors just a small sample of those female-centric comics that deserve recognition outside their imposed “niche genres.” Move aside, boys. You’ve had your turn.


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