Originally Posted by
Kees_L
Oh, to add about this:
I don't think that validating an intended comic book by means of instilling it chuckfull of but emancipated material or now-seeming themology will instantaneously be to make for great comics material. Emancipation will be dandy, but comics need to be to work or be good as on their own merits and their own particularness most fully.
I don't think it would have to be that hard or that new to find a tone or language as to not be utterly alienating whatever type or specific group of readers.
I feel I could think of plenty of independent potentially controversial or particular works as not being to alienate or exclude readers typically.
I would think that for instance neither the Hernandez Brothers, Alan Moore or Frank Miller (except maybe for his more recent angry stuff which would come down to only two titles versus a ton of much more thoughtful ones, including Sin City), Bill Sienkiewicz, Charles Burns, Ted McKeever, Mike Mignola, or Robert Crumb, neither of those would be all too eager on alienating readers overly.
It might be some authors or creators wish to tickle controversy, or be to raise eyebrows in specific corners, which would be their own prerogative as creatives. Like Crumb drawing out the hair and curves of ladies as he would quite specifically.
There'd be artists like Dave Stevens or Arthur Adams or Frank Cho or Adam Hughes who all seem(-ed) hardly too high-and-mighty at all to be drawing juxtapositioned female butts and boobs for as long as fans would be coughing up hefty dollars for such? Which could be part to some alienation, but hardly the sole cause or full magnitude of what *majority male apologism* among comics or their fanbases would be amounting to?
There might be plenty of male chauvinist crap-ass outright drivelly comics, but nobody's stopping anyone from making good stuff, as that would also seem available, quite readily for anyone actually open to such, without limiting themselves to but the biggest or most known or most available seeming stuff.
If you think Wonder Woman or Batman, the Avengers or even the X-Men would seem to be sounding kind of crummy, there's still a gazillion of other stuff out there, selling like... cakes that haven't gone stale... Yet! So hurry up, or all creators will starve to death, besides all that cake still hot. Or they may end up a baker for hire, or who knows what. Possibly even lawyers.