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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 5, 2015 16:24:23 GMT -5
Ah, darn. Kim Duchateau is not female? Luckily I still have Virginie Augustin.. and Sarah Dyer, though I'm not sure if I should put her as a writer or artist (probably as a writer, I have enough artists now).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 17:14:57 GMT -5
At least two of my favorite artists working today are women -- Amanda Conner & Joelle Jones. I strongly suspect there are others; those are just off the top of my head.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 17:17:27 GMT -5
At least two of my favorite artists working today are women -- Amanda Conner & Joelle Jones. I strongly suspect there are others; those are just off the top of my head. durn it, Joelle Jones i another I forgot to include. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 17:30:48 GMT -5
LOVE her art, have several t-shirts, prints and her book...but haven't read her comic yet. She has a miniseries called Burn through Dark Horse I think it was. I think she may also have a oneshot or two out there. Maybe a second miniseries. And she does covers for other comics. Elephantmen for sure, I think there was more. |
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Post by badwolf on Mar 5, 2015 17:33:25 GMT -5
LOVE her art, have several t-shirts, prints and her book...but haven't read her comic yet. She has a miniseries called Burn through Dark Horse I think it was. I think she may also have a oneshot or two out there. Maybe a second miniseries. And she does covers for other comics. Elephantmen for sure, I think there was more. I didn't know about that one. I've seen Tampopo. Yeah one of her Elephantmen covers is in a Spectrum book I have. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 5, 2015 20:15:41 GMT -5
I always have trouble with the "writer" "artist" division in these things so I never end up voting. Most of my favorites - Lynda Barry, Kathy Malkasian, Linda Medley, Allison Bechdel, Kate Beaton, Gabrielle Bell, Chynna Clugston...) do both. This is even harder than my "everyone list" just 'cause my favorite female list runs even indier.
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 6, 2015 2:12:28 GMT -5
I did not know Jan Duursema was female (or that she was married to Tom Mandrake!) I loved her work on the Elric adaptations. I also just learned both those things. |
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 6, 2015 2:15:02 GMT -5
I always have trouble with the "writer" "artist" division in these things so I never end up voting. Most of my favorites - Lynda Barry, Kathy Malkasian, Linda Medley, Allison Bechdel, Kate Beaton, Gabrielle Bell, Chynna Clugston...) do both. This is even harder than my "everyone list" just 'cause my favorite female list runs even indier. I have the same difficulty. Loosely, I am placing all of my cartoonists on short lists for both, and hoping each will be edged off one but not the other. It's mostly working, except that Wendy Pini won't get off either. |
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 6, 2015 2:40:20 GMT -5
Upon careful reflection I came up with a list of all the female creators I can say for sure I've read some work of:
Cartoonists:
Alison Beichdel
Coleen Coover
Debbie Huey
Lora Innes
Lucy Knisley
Linda Medley
Marjane Satrapi
Raina Telgemeyer
Sara Varon
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Writers:
Sibylline (Desmazières)
Jo Duffy
Devin Grayson
Barbara Kesel
Ann Nocenti
Gail Simone
Louise Simonson
Christina Weir
G. Willow Wilson
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artists:
Kate Brown
Stephanie Buscema
Marian Churchland
Becky Cloonan
Amanda Conner
Leila Del Duca
Coleen Doran
Jan Duursema
Melinda Gebbie
Pia Guerra
Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Sara Pichelli
Wendy Pini
Amy Reeder
Marie Severin
Yuko Shimizu
Fiona Staples
Jill Thompson
I'm sure I'm missing several from random superhero comics here or there, but I bet that's most of them. A pathetically small list, given that I'm sure I've read the work of over a thousand male creators.
It is in fact shorter than the shortlist I made myself when trying to choose my favorite writers recently.
I've also got my lists drafted. I'll wait a bit too post in case something I forgot occurs to me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2015 14:48:58 GMT -5
They have started to reveal there countdown doing artists 25-21 today (writers tomorrow I believe). Article here-M |
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 21, 2015 14:55:10 GMT -5
I ended up voting for:
Artists
1. Marie Severin
2. Colleen Coover
3. Becky Cloonan
4. Jill Thompson
5. Melinda Gebbie
6. Linda Medley
7. Sara Varon
8. Amy Reeder
9. Pia Guerra
10. Wendy Pini
Writers:
1. Ann Nocenti
2. Alison Bechdel
3. Marjane Satrapi
4. Barbara Kesel
5. Wendy Pini
6. Sibylline (Desmazières)
7. Mary Skrenes
8. Raina Telgemeyer
9. Louise Simonson
10. Lucy Knisley
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 1:26:24 GMT -5
Writers 25-21 are up... CSBG-M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 1:29:17 GMT -5
So far I have had 1 artist (Trina Robbins) and one writer (Barbara Randall Kesel that voted appear. I voted for Colleen Doran as my #1 artist, but she appeared on the writer list only so far.
-M
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 23, 2015 21:03:19 GMT -5
I made a suggestion in the comments that next year they just do female creators.
The writer/artist division makes sense when people are mainly voting for DC/Marvel stuff. But they have historically had very few female creators and so many other companies frequently publish writer-artist combos.
I think the vote-splitting that will result will skew this list.
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 23, 2015 21:05:59 GMT -5
Kelly Thompson has written in her blog that she hopes this will inspire people to include more female creators on their main list next voting round.
But I fear that it has done the opposite for me. My favorite female artist is Marie Severin, and while I love her work, she's just not anywhere near my top 10. I fear I will continue to submit male-only top 10s for the main list. At least for now. In the years to come, I will be exposed to more cretors and more creators will have their chance to stand the test of time.
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