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Reviews 44% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings An exploration of women as important figures in the comic book industry since the medium's beginnings in the early 1900s. Read More Read Less...
- Marisa Stotter
- Documentary
- Janelle Asselin
Jul 10, 2017 · She Makes Comics is a documentary film about women in the comics industry, which sets itself the ambitious task of starting at the very beginning of comics as a medium: the early...
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By Cliff Wheatley
Updated: Aug 16, 2021 11:59 pm
Posted: Dec 6, 2014 2:22 am
With things like Gamer Gate and “Fake Geek Girls” still fresh on the table, Sequart’s She Makes Comics is coming at a pivotal moment in the wider fan culture. Though Marisa Stotter’s documentary focuses on women in the comic book industry, there are similar struggles present throughout a wide variety of fandom and thus it's critical that it gets talked about in this manner. While She Makes Comics isn’t the defining piece of work to catalogue the importance of women in comics, it does plant a flag in the ground to let everyone know that things are, thankfully, changing.
Clocking in at only an hour and 10 minutes, She Makes Comics takes on the ambitious task of starting at the beginning. The film points out that women have always worked in comics, starting with the earliest of female newspaper cartoonists, through mainstream Silver Age artists like Ramona Fradon and Marie Severin, through the rise of figureheads like Jenette Kahn and Karen Berger, all the way up until the present with writers like Gail Simone and Kelly Sue DeConnick.
The breadth of interviews is impressive, as Stotter is able to talk with all of the most important figures when it comes to women in the comics industry, including most everyone listed above (save for Severin, presumably for health reasons), in addition to several voices that are able to add insightful commentary about various eras from different angles. She Makes Comics drips with passion, both from its interviewees and its filmmaker, for the comic book medium and for the fight against the sad realities that have plagued women in the industry for decades.This includes everything from not being taken seriously as an artist to cosplay harassment to judgmental eyes in a comic book shop. The real success of the film, however, is not simply describing or complaining about the problem, but addressing it head on and reinforcing the dedication with which they view comics; that comics are worth fighting this battle for. The sense of conviction is inspiring -- for anyone in any field, I would imagine -- but particularly so for women looking to break into the comic book world, either as a creator or as a fan.
Though not quite technically sound, if you’re a fan of the female creators working in comics today, She Makes Comics will give you some interesting, if brief, insight into the female struggle in an industry that’s been known as a boy’s club. It’s not a thorough exploration of the most impactful women in comics history, but it gives enough to be inf...
- Cliff Wheatley
- 5 min
She Makes Comics traces the fascinating history of women in the comics industry. Despite popular assumptions about the comics world, women have been writing, drawing, and reading comics since the medium’s beginnings in the late 19th century.
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Featuring dozens of interviews with such vital figures as Ramona Fradon, Trina Robbins, Joyce Farmer, Karen Berger, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Becky Cloonan, She Makes Comics is the first film to bring together the most influential women of the comics world.
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