Ladies Making Comics

microaggressions:

My Drawing for Sequential professor shows us industry artists at the beginning of each class.  6 weeks in, and he still hasn’t shown a female artist.  I asked him if he could change that, and he said that it was hard to find, and that he didn’t want to cheapen it by only picking an artist because she was female.  I am 27 & made me feel frustrated, under-represented.

Any supposed Sequential Art professor who cannot think of a single female artist ~worthy~ of being featured is not himself worthy of his post.

Here is (by no means exhaustive) list of currently working female artists whose work regularly takes my breath away:

• Colleen Doran
• Jill Thompson
• Carla Speed McNeil
• Jillian Tamaki
• Amy Reeder
• Joelle Jones
• E.K. Weaver
• Renae De Liz
• Emma Rios
• Sara Pichelli
• Ming Doyle
• Stephanie Buscema
• Molly Crabapple
• Adriana Melo
• Becky Cloonan

Furthermore, name me better cover artists than Jo Chen, Stephanie Hans, Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, or Chrissie Zullo.

Also, HOW CAN YOU IGNORE ALISON BECHDEL?  HOW CAN YOU IGNORE MARJANE SATRAPI?  How can you teach a sequential art class and not acknowledge two wildly successful people whose sequential work was Time Magazine’s book of the year and was adapted into an Oscar-nominated animated film?

I just hope this wasn’t at SCAD, because otherwise somewhere out there Bob Pendarvis is a sad panda :(