Comic Arts Conference @ San Diego Comic Con International
Bummed I'll be missing it - - looks like a lot of interesting presentations this year.
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A feminist analysis of popular culture, by Jennifer K. Stuller.
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Labels: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, chick lit, Nia Vardalos, urban fantasy, vampires, women in film

Labels: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Conferences, Scholars, Slayage
Labels: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Female Heroes, feminism, Interviews, Joss Whedon, My Book, Mythology, Popular culture, Scholars, Sci Fi, Sexism, Superwomen






Labels: Experience Music Project, Jim Henson, Muppets, Puppets, Science Fiction Museum, Seattle, Smithsonian

Labels: Fringe, Olivia Dunham
Labels: Female Heroes, feminism, Interviews, Mythology, Superheroes, Superwomen, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman Movie

“Female heroes abound in literature, film and all walks of life, although most people don’t know that they do. Not surprising given how much they challenge the gender roles in which women and girls have historically been confined. This wonderful book shows female heroes breaking out of gender boxes left and right and illuminates new possibilities for the indomitable hero in all of us.”
"Once upon a time -- only a few years ago, actually -- women could turn on their TV sets and glory in the adventures of Buffy, Xena, Sydney Bristow, Dana Scully, and many more strong, ass-kicking women. Today there is not one show on the small screen that stars a female action hero. What happened? Comics are not much better. Aside from the occasional exception (for which we are grateful) like Birds of Prey, and women writers like Ivory Madison (The Huntress) and Gail Simone’s newly feminist interpretation of Wonder Woman, most comic book action heroines continue to be male-written and drawn creations whose breasts are bigger then their personalities.
Now along comes Jennifer Stuller, with her very entertaining book, Ink-Stained Amazons, to explore the whys and wherefores of pop culture super women, and perhaps jolt us all into demanding more and stronger women characters. Thank you, Jennifer. We need those role models!"
Labels: Female Heroes, Industry Sexism, Lois Lane, Popular culture, Superwomen, the book, women in comics, Wonder Woman

Labels: Comic Arts Conference, Female Heroes, feminism, Industry Sexism, Lois Lane, Presentations, Superwomen, women in comics, women in film, Wonder Woman, WonderCon
Cartoonist and historian Trina Robbins (From Girls to Grrrlz) presents a slideshow talk on the feral girls—Pig Girl, Hawk Girl, and Wolf Gal—of Li’l Abner’s Dogpatch, a bloodthirsty lot with no compunction about turning Dogpatchers into dinner. Wolf Gal, the starring wild girl of Dogpatch, is strong, beautiful, independent, and—don’t laugh—a feminist. When the little girls of Dogpatch imitate Wolf Gal by taking no guff from the boys, the citizens of Dogpatch react. They want their daughters to grow up as "overworked, wore-out, respectable married drudges," not "wild an' happy an'f ree, like th' wolf gal!!" Robbins connects these cartoon wild women with mythical feral children and more contemporary figures like Misha Defonseca, a Jewish orphan during World War II, who hid from the Nazis in the forests of occupied Europe for four years and eventually teamed up with a family of wolves. Recounting her experiences years later, she wrote, "the only time I ever slept deeply was when I was with wolves... Those were the most beautiful days I had ever experienced."

Labels: Al Capp, Julie Newmar, Trina Robbins, women in comics, women in film
Labels: Watchmen





"After viewing what was purported to have been the most original and expensive television pilot ever produced, NBC executives weighed in: 'The Cage' was too original, too cerebral, and decidedly lacking in 'action' (i.e. violence). What's more, two characters in particular left them cold. It must have been difficult for them to determine which offended them most: the purely fictional pointy-eared, mixed-blood alien* (whose appearance, they said, audiences might find frightening) or the intellectually gifted woman in charge of the ship (whose existence they might find frightening). Either way, they were determined to eliminate both of them."
Labels: Actresses, Majel Roddenberry, Star Trek