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Adventure-Style Living: How Gender Affects the Money Comics Creators Make
Getting published is hard enough, but making even a meager living from comics is a really rough road.
Why Are Women and Transgender Comic Creators Getting Less of the Pie?
Men make up only 54 percent of comics creators, and submit work at approximately the same rates as women.
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.
Who Is Killing the Journalists in Mexico?
Journalists are being killed, wounded and threatened at an alarming rate in Mexico since the US/Mexican war on drugs accelerated into a bloodbath of deaths, wounding and torture beginning …
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” …