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Anne Elizabeth Moore and a host of artists explore important topics through graphic journalism.
Varieties of Gender Harassment
Perceptions of women as content in comics could contribute to a hostile work environment - one that affects home life, career longevity and, as we'll see next week, income.
What We Look Like: A Comic About Women in Media
“What We Look Like,” with Anne Elizabeth Moore and Robyn Chapman, is a follow-up to “Ladydrawer's” look at women's participation in the labor force. This time, we look at …
What We Do: A Comic About Women in the Labor Force
The last installment of Ladydrawers looked at gendered discrepencies in media hiring practices (catch up on all the strips here) and how the gender of the labor pool might …
The Gender of Media Creators Affects What We See
For Women's History Month, “Ladydrawers” offers part two of our look at gender disparity in hiring practices across all media (see Mickey Zacchilli's first strip here), an issue underscored …
Julie Doucet: How Does It Feel to Be Placed Among the Comic Greats?
This week in “Ladydrawers” (catch up here), we have the third installment of our interview with one of the most important and talented female artists in North America - …
Women in Media – They’re Not Only Missing From Comics
For the last six months, Ladydrawers (catch up on the previous strips here) has been tracking gender disparity in both the content and hired labor pool of comics. As …
Comic Artist Alison Bechdel: The Personal Is Political
The final installment of Anne Elizabeth Moore's exclusive interview with Alison Bechdel appears on Ladydrawers today, illustrated by Gabrielle Gamboa. The bestselling and critically acclaimed author of “Fun Home” …
How to Draw Comics the New 52 Way: Women Get “Fridged” Again
Earlier this year, DC Comics announced it would “re-boot” its entire spate of 52 monthly superhero books and start all storylines from scratch, with all new creators. The radical …
Julie Doucet: It’s Amazing I’m Able to Make a Living
This week in Ladydrawers, we continue hearing from one of the most important and talented female comics artists in North America—Julie Doucet. As she told us in the first …
Ladydrawers: Alison Bechdel Interview (Part 2)
Ladydrawers continues our look at challenges faced by women comics artists with Part 2 of Anne Elizabeth Moore's exclusive interview with Alison Bechdel, illustrated by Gabrielle Gamboa. In it, …