Results for: comics
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Drawn to Comics: DC Comics Bombshells Brings Queer Women-Led History
Don’t let its historical setting fool you; DC Comics Bombshells is giving us a preview of what the future can be for female characters’ roles in superhero comics.
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Drawn to Comics: Last Year I Wished for 12 Things in Comics; Here’s What I Got
Let’s see how the year 2015 was for women in comics and what we can hope for in 2016 (I’m mainly hoping for more queer comics).
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DC Comics Steps Up Its LGBTQ Representation with Batgirl, Harley and Ivy, Renee Montoya and More!
The Batgirl creative team makes changes to fix their transphobic mistakes, Harley and Ivy are confirmed as a couple, and DC has more queer heroes than ever before!
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Drawn to Comics: Twelve Things I’m Hoping for In Comics in 2015
All I want this year is more representation, better representation, the return of some of my faves and about nine other things.
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Drawn to Comics: We Need to Talk About the Rape in Batwoman
A lot of Batwoman fans (and to be honest, a lot of comic fans overall) were worried when the creative team of W. Haden Blackman and J.H. Williams III left the book after DC refused to allow them to have Kate Kane (Batwoman) marry her longtime girlfriend, police detective Maggie Sawyer. Now, it looks like those fears were completely justified.
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Batwoman Makes Her Surprisingly Gay (And Surprisingly Great) Animated Debut in “Batman: Bad Blood”
Look at Kate Kane, out on a date with Renee Montoya and fighting alongside Batman on TV like it’s no big deal.
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GLAAD Awards Nominees Include OITNB, Tegan & Sara, That Long French Movie About Lesbian Sex, Batwoman
Let’s take a long hard look at who else got nominated for GLAAD Awards this year besides us, with a not-to-be-missed section from Mey about the Comic Book nominees.
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Batwoman Creative Team Quits After DC Editors Prohibit Planned Lesbian Marriage
“With their decision to prohibit not only Batwoman’s marriage, but also several other character developments, it seems like DC has gone too far.”
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DC Hires an Openly Gay Writer for Batwoman to Appease Audiences
Its certainly been one hell of a week for DC’s PR team. (Emphasis on hell.)
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Let’s Talk About Fictional Kickass Heroines: Katniss, Xena, Buffy and More
Here at Autostraddle, we love kickass women. We’re presenting a list of 20 of our favorite kickass fictional heroines as a way to jumpstart this feelingsfest and leaving the rest up to you!
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Supergirls Like Us: Batgirl’s Alysia Yeoh Is Trans
“It’s important not just to have characters that challenge ideas about gender and sex, but to also have them in realistic settings.”
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Batwoman #4: Smart, Feminist and Very Very Lesbosexy
Batwoman #4 passes the Bechdel test! And it includes a ton of tastefully done lesbian sex! What is happening to mainstream comics, you guys?