Comments on: BEA wraps up http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:33:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: dave roman http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1681782 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:43:32 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1681782 "an audience member asked if there were opportunities for female-fronted comics book movies — the answer was that since ELEKTRA and CATWOMAN bombed, it’s a very very hard sell, which isn’t fair, but no one remembers Lara Croft. (We’d add AEON FLUX to the bomb list.)" The fact that these were horrible and/or horribly marketed has nothing to do with why they bombed. It's because the main characters were women. Boo. “an audience member asked if there were opportunities for female-fronted comics book movies — the answer was that since ELEKTRA and CATWOMAN bombed, it’s a very very hard sell, which isn’t fair, but no one remembers Lara Croft. (We’d add AEON FLUX to the bomb list.)”

The fact that these were horrible and/or horribly marketed has nothing to do with why they bombed. It’s because the main characters were women.
Boo.

]]> by: Sphinx Magoo http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1681388 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:13:16 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1681388 Gossip about FINAL CRISIS? I'd like gossip about FINAL CRISIS. Anything you can share? Gossip about FINAL CRISIS? I’d like gossip about FINAL CRISIS. Anything you can share?

]]> by: Cary Coatney http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1677556 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:17:55 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1677556 Nimoy was signing books about heavy fat women? Was he at the right event? Because the Erotica LA convention is this weekend at the convention center. Much to my dismay, because the Shrine show is also this weekend and I went out and got a table - before I realized out it was on the same weekend. ~ Coat Nimoy was signing books about heavy fat women?

Was he at the right event? Because the Erotica LA convention is this weekend at the convention center.

Much to my dismay, because the Shrine show is also this weekend and I went out and got a table - before I realized out it was on the same weekend.

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Coat

]]> by: rich http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1676299 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:03:01 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1676299 "get more woman to want to (and feel safe to) make comics!" Then get them to feel safe while proofreading their material ... sheesh! “get more woman to want to (and feel safe to) make comics!”

Then get them to feel safe while proofreading their material … sheesh!

]]> by: Blog@Newsarama » The Lightning Round http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1675925 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:18:03 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1675925 [...] – Heidi MacDonald blogs about the Book Expo America. So does Bully. [...] […] – Heidi MacDonald blogs about the Book Expo America. So does Bully. […]

]]> by: goddard http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1675678 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:28:22 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/06/01/bea-wraps-up/#comment-1675678 on a quick glance of the post (please forgive), one of the major complaints seems to be strong or realistic portrayals of women in comics and their adaption in film. one of the first things anyone learns in fiction writing one-oh-one is WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW! you want a simple solution to the martyr woman, or the "bad-girl", or the weepy alt cartoonist whining about the girls who didn't love him as much as he loved them??? easy! get more woman to want to (and feel safe to) make comics! by whatever means necessary Joey Q still holding meetings in old meat packing plants turned strip clubs outside of Chicago? Julie Schwartz still hailed as the best thing that ever happened to DC comics? the executive member of the the organization still allowed to run the CBLDF? you will NEVER have any kind of gender equality in the mainstream avenues of this art-form we love so much fix the down right aggressive sexism in every area of profitable cartooning in America, and you might just see Honest to God women folk making Honest to God comics about realistic women, without threat of blacklisting or sexual assault/discrimination on a quick glance of the post (please forgive), one of the major complaints seems to be strong or realistic portrayals of women in comics and their adaption in film.

one of the first things anyone learns in fiction writing one-oh-one is WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW!

you want a simple solution to the martyr woman, or the “bad-girl”, or the weepy alt cartoonist whining about the girls who didn’t love him as much as he loved them???

easy!
get more woman to want to (and feel safe to) make comics!

by whatever means necessary

Joey Q still holding meetings in old meat packing plants turned strip clubs outside of Chicago?
Julie Schwartz still hailed as the best thing that ever happened to DC comics?
the executive member of the the organization still allowed to run the CBLDF?
you will NEVER have any kind of gender equality in the mainstream avenues of this art-form we love so much

fix the down right aggressive sexism in every area of profitable cartooning in America, and you might just see Honest to God women folk making Honest to God comics about realistic women, without threat of blacklisting or sexual assault/discrimination

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