24 August 2012
A couple of weeks ago, Comics Alliance ran an article that asked artists – all male – to compare heroes’ physiques with those of Olympic competitors.
CA has now posed the same question to a group of female artists:
Two weeks ago we ran an article on ComicsAlliance. We asked four artists to rank male and female superheroes by size and describe which athletic types they resembled. The aim was to see if an unspoken consensus exists about what superheroes should look like or if they all belonged to the same generic model.
All four of the artists we spoke to were men. If you’re looking to represent the demographic diversity of the superhero industry that’s sadly a pretty accurate sample. But it didn’t allow us to see if there was a difference in the way male and female artists perceive superhero body shapes, and we thought that was an interesting question. So we reached out to some of the best female artists working in superhero comics today to see how they ranked the heroes.
To read the new article, click here: Superhero Body Diversity: Female Artists Offer Their Take