Claymore readers might be interested in this post on women warriors and the male gaze. Spoilers through v. 15. I kind of noodled in the comments, but my brain is too dead to come up with anything coherent.

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Joy Kim recently posted on female friendships in shoujo, and I found myself doing a lot of "It's not shoujo, but..." Ergo, another list ( Read more... )

This was a spontaneous panel attended by coffeeandink (Mely), akycha, heavenscalyx (HC), mystickeeper (MK), takumashii (T), fourthage (Nienna), and Alaya Dawn Johnson (ADJ). Names I'll be referring to them by in parentheses.

I don't remember the description that I wrote up for the panel suggestions, but here's the one I posted to the Wiscon community:

Most bodies in shoujo manga are thin and wispy, with ( Read more... )

Because I desperately want to babble about shoujo manga to people:

Shoujo BodiesMost bodies in shoujo manga are thin and wispy, with an emphasis on androgyny. Many of the men tend to lack muscle definition (think Yuu Watase), while the women are much less curvy than their shounen manga counterparts. What does this mean to us? What other body types ( Read more... )

This week, I went with cychi and A. to see the Tezuka Osamu exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in SF ( Read more... )

Out of McCloud's three books on comics (the other two being Understanding Comics and Making Comics), this is the weakest. This is largely because this is McCloud's book on the future of comics, and it was published in 2000 ( Read more... )

This is a general introduction to creating shoujo manga, done in manga format. It's slightly gimmicky; we follow little panda Satomi in her quest to become a shoujo mangaka, but I forgive it for the gimmick because I am so amused by Satomi and Mr. Manga Star, her hard-ass editor ( Read more... )

(subtitle: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels)

I think this is McCloud's third book on comics/manga/graphic novels, the first two being Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. Like the other two, this one is written in comic format. It sounds gimmicky, but it actually isn't, as McCloud uses the format to illustrate how ( Read more... )

These are going to be brief notes rather than an actual argument, largely because my brain is still broken from watching all of FMA and from the beginning episodes of Princess Tutu ( Read more... )

• The culture shock side


• The gender side