Week 12: Comics By Women

   Since their conception, comics have admittedly been a very male-dominated area in the creative industry. Of course that was before and this is now. More and more today young girls and women are getting into comic books and overall the comic industry is really becoming more open and changing to adapt to readers of all genders and comic creators as well. We're starting to see and hear about a lot of notable women comic creators, artists, and writers coming into the comic-scene and I for one could not be happier.

  In terms of reading for this week I took a look at Noelle Stevenson's Lumberjanes. Lumberjanes is an incredibly fun and well written comic with a mostly female cast that follows a young group of girls who encounter a number of interesting supernatural events while away at camp. I'm also a big fan of Noelle's work since I've followed her back when she was starting out on tumblr. Her comic work is really quite good and her humor and characters are adorabley drawn and on point.

   Lumberjanes has been well acclaimed by the comic audience and I believe it's now an ongoing series. I for one am glad to see and read comics like this because it shows how women can write/draw an interesting comic just as much as any male creator. I've seen a few instances of people complaining about female creators and how the comic industry should be a male-only niche. But seeing as how comics have grown to such a wide audience now it's important that as a creative industry that it should reach audiences of all ages and genders regardless of who dominates the market, which by the way is almost half and half I believe and is coming to be a lot like the gaming industry now where almost half of the gaming audience is female and many developers coming in are female. By spreading out and appealing to a more diverse audience representation is also being distributed more which is something the comic industry has really needed.