Feminist Comic Book Collection

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Feminist Comic Book Collection

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1beatles1964
Modificato: Mar 10, 2010, 11:42 am

It's been awhile since anyone has bothered to post anything here so I'll start it up again.
I'm thinking of starting to collect Comic Books with a feminist theme to them. I already own Mantra & some Wonder Woman Comic Books and I also think that Super Girl, She Hulk, Spider Woman & Spider Girl fit into that category as well. Any other suggestions I should be looking for?

I think these are some of the more obvious titles I should be looking to buy and figure there must be others I should also be looking for too. Maybe some more obscure titles I've never heard of before. Any suggestions will be welcome.

Beatles1964

2beatles1964
Modificato: Mar 10, 2010, 12:05 pm

I also remembered I own some Tomb Raider and Witch Blade Comic Books and also Tomb Raider/Witch Balde cross over Comic Books too. I probably own even more titles at home if I take a closer look at my Comic Book Collection.

Beatles1964

3Papiervisje
Mar 10, 2010, 1:06 pm

If you call any comic with a female main character feminist, there is a wide array of comics available.
If you narrow it down a bit, you quickly find a lot of comics by women. My immediate thoughts were Dykes to watch out for by Allison Bechdel and Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore. But there are hundreds more.

Check out this website by Johanna Carlson Draper ( http://comicsworthreading.com/comics-by-women/ ) and the Friends of Lulu website: http://friendsoflulu.wordpress.com/ and their wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Lulu for hundreds of comics by women and about women

4beatles1964
Mar 10, 2010, 1:23 pm

Thanks A Lot for the suggestions Papiervisje. I 'll have to look into them and see what I can find. I think this will be very helpful to me. My original thinking of feminist Comic Books was along the lines of Super Heroines or any character who can take care of themself and kicks the bad guys butt all over the place and doesn't need a man to come to her rescue and who could probably beat up on Batman, Spiderman, Superman, or any other male Super Hero or even Super Villain for that matter in a fair fight. I know Spiderman will sometimes have the Black Cat in one of his Comic Books or I was thinking about Rogue from The X-Men. Maybe my mind thinks a little bit differently from everyone else's but I've always thought The X-Men is a very sexist title. Why not something along the lines of The X-People or X-Persons?

Beatles1964