In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five ways that Gail Simone has had a notable impact on the world of comics. There’s always a curious debate that goes on whenever you see something particularly outrageous, which is whether it makes more sense to ignore it rather than to give it more attention than is due by pointing it out. The idea of whether it makes sense to “reward” someone with the attention they are clearly seeking with said outrageous behavior.I don’t think you can quite understand just how hard it is to get a term or a concept just outright adopted into the public consciousness, but Gail Simone’s “Women in refrigerators” is one of those rare concepts that was adopted almost immediately, and this was before Simone was even a comic book writer! She was just a comic book fan who so cogently noted that comic books tended to be harder on female characters than male characters, since the male characters were often the lead characters, and so the characters who got brutalized for the sake of motivating the male characters tended to be female. As Simone noted, “if you demolish most of the characters girls like, then girls won’t read comics. That’s it!”
In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five ways that Gail Simone has had a notable impact on the world of comics.
There’s always a curious debate that goes on whenever you see something particularly outrageous, which is whether it makes more sense to ignore it rather than to give it more attention than is due by pointing it out. The idea of whether it makes sense to “reward” someone with the attention they are clearly seeking with said outrageous behavior.
I don’t think you can quite understand just how hard it is to get a term or a concept just outright adopted into the public consciousness, but Gail Simone’s “Women in refrigerators” is one of those rare concepts that was adopted almost immediately, and this was before Simone was even a comic book writer! She was just a comic book fan who so cogently noted that comic books tended to be harder on female characters than male characters, since the male characters were often the lead characters, and so the characters who got brutalized for the sake of motivating the male characters tended to be female. As Simone noted, “if you demolish most of the characters girls like, then girls won’t read comics. That’s it!”
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