WomenInComics

It's very easy to examine at the state of the mainstream American comic book industry and its relationship with women and come with away with a diagnosis of "grim." With respect to very young women, like the seven-year-old girl who last year had to give up on her idol Starfire because of the character's updated and decidedly "adult" depiction in DC Comics' Red Hood and the Outl

With a track record of female-centric books like Spider-Girl, Banana Sunday and even Models Inc. -- probably the single most underrated mystery ever published by Marvel Comics -- Paul Tobin seems like the perfect fit for Dynamite's upcoming Bionic Woman comic...

Both Marvel and DC Comics have been at the center of concerns and controversies recently regarding women in comics, both in terms of the way they are represented on the page and in the offices of the Big Two comics publishers. While DC Comics has quite a few ongoing titles devoted to female characters (Batgirl, Batwoman, Birds of Prey, Catwoman Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Voodoo), there are very few

Today, ComicsAlliance welcomes guest writer Rachel Edidin, who works as an editor at Dark Horse Comics. Lately, between Womanthology and DC's All-New-Almost-All-Male 52, the popular lens has turned -- as it is wont to do every year or so -- to the Problem of Women in Comics, namely, whether there are enough of them, and if not, what, if anything, should be done to fix that...

While the mainstream superhero comics audience remains predominantly male, it shouldn't be news to anyone reading this blog that women like comics, too. They write them, read them, draw them, blog about them and show up in healthy numbers at comic book conventions...

ComicsAlliance is pleased to give you the first look at the cover of "Girl Comics" #2, illustrated by "Sandman" and "Beasts of Burden" artist Jill Thompson, who says the Snow White-themed superheroine cover was inspired by her love of fairy tales and fantasy, and a particular affection for Kitty Pryde...