i wonder what julie doucet and lynda barry would say
otherwise, they included so many of the biggies i'm impressed.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kristenradtke/draw-naked
"Comics has been the perfect medium for capturing discomfort that is very real but isn’t visible to others."
"I wanted to depict my bipolar moods in a visceral way - for myself and for the reader - so I drew myself loopy, stark, realistic, cartoony, abstracted, in ink, pencil, polished, sketchy… Embodying and externalizing my feelings in the self-portraits, when I really nailed them, was truly cathartic."
"I want to see women’s bodies portrayed in a non-gratuitous, nonobjectified, honest way… I think it’s important to see women in comics who are not commodities or sex objects, but complex humans with their own desires, hungers, lust, and love."
"What bothers me about women’s bodies I see in many comics is that they seem so removed from the woman herself. Their primary function is to be on display for the reader… This is bad not just from a ‘that’s sexist’ standpoint, but from a storytelling one as well."
"We need women’s bodies in our stories, having sex and getting our periods and eating food and doing whatever bodies do, so that the things our bodies do are normalized and present - so that boys don’t grow up thinking women are gross or whores or pigs or any other horrible epithet."
"I look forward to the time when honest depictions of women’s bodies are a normal thing to look at, instead of some kind of statement."
"It’s challenging to be any kind of female in this world, and it’s challenging to be any kind of cartoonist… Women need to create comics or our realities will be erased, ignored, or distorted."
"You are asking a middle-aged female if an industry, which traditionally supports and advances the ethos of primarily young white males, has presented challenges to her in the almost 40 years she’s been producing comics. Where do I start?"
"There are so few opportunities to see non-heterosexual and female-centered depictions of sex… As a gay person, I know firsthand the despair that comes from believing you’re the only one, of not being able to imagine having a sex life - because you haven’t seen it."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kristenradtke/draw-naked
"Comics has been the perfect medium for capturing discomfort that is very real but isn’t visible to others."
"I wanted to depict my bipolar moods in a visceral way - for myself and for the reader - so I drew myself loopy, stark, realistic, cartoony, abstracted, in ink, pencil, polished, sketchy… Embodying and externalizing my feelings in the self-portraits, when I really nailed them, was truly cathartic."
"I want to see women’s bodies portrayed in a non-gratuitous, nonobjectified, honest way… I think it’s important to see women in comics who are not commodities or sex objects, but complex humans with their own desires, hungers, lust, and love."
"What bothers me about women’s bodies I see in many comics is that they seem so removed from the woman herself. Their primary function is to be on display for the reader… This is bad not just from a ‘that’s sexist’ standpoint, but from a storytelling one as well."
"We need women’s bodies in our stories, having sex and getting our periods and eating food and doing whatever bodies do, so that the things our bodies do are normalized and present - so that boys don’t grow up thinking women are gross or whores or pigs or any other horrible epithet."
"I look forward to the time when honest depictions of women’s bodies are a normal thing to look at, instead of some kind of statement."
"It’s challenging to be any kind of female in this world, and it’s challenging to be any kind of cartoonist… Women need to create comics or our realities will be erased, ignored, or distorted."
"You are asking a middle-aged female if an industry, which traditionally supports and advances the ethos of primarily young white males, has presented challenges to her in the almost 40 years she’s been producing comics. Where do I start?"
"There are so few opportunities to see non-heterosexual and female-centered depictions of sex… As a gay person, I know firsthand the despair that comes from believing you’re the only one, of not being able to imagine having a sex life - because you haven’t seen it."