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noysh's review
3.0
A collection of shorts by women creators at Marvel. There's a lot of really good stuff in here and a couple of incomprehensible pieces. There's also a handful of spotlights on women creators who worked for Marvel from the 60s to the 90s. Good stuff!
jess_d84's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed discovering some new illustrators and writers in this comic book showcase of female talent within the industry as much as I enjoyed reading the bios of some of the women pioneers to the industry.
Well worth a read!
Well worth a read!
christalbotheindl's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't quite understand why these particular comics were picked. To be honest, only a few of them were interesting and the rest were filler-style comics that focused on the softer side, which would have been fine if it hadn't been almost the whole books worth. It seemed a little off, like the editor decided that if someone wanted to read comics written by women, they wanted to read stereotypical storylines (romance, hair dressing, etc.).
An example of how ridiculous it was at times was the story of Ann Nocenti who we're told did all kinds of writing for different comics and eventually became a writer for Daredevil where we're told she stayed for four years, creating the character Typhoid Mary and integrating her own political and social beliefs, which was unheard of. Then, the selected comic input as an example of her work is a pretty throw-away comic set in a bar where people are hooking up. What a disappointment!
The most interesting part of Girl Comics were the stories about the writers, inkers, and colorists themselves - both how long they'd been in the industry and how they got there (basically a man had to vouch for them and place them in the spot they were in). It was nice to see that some of these women got their start in the 40's and at the same time incredibly disappointing that they had to be reliant on the men around them to get a foot in the door.
I also rather liked one of the squares in the Jubilee comic, since she looked like me, if I were feminine. But that is neither here nor there. All in all, I'm a little disappointed that I spent my Denver Comic Con self-imposed book limit on this book.
An example of how ridiculous it was at times was the story of Ann Nocenti who we're told did all kinds of writing for different comics and eventually became a writer for Daredevil where we're told she stayed for four years, creating the character Typhoid Mary and integrating her own political and social beliefs, which was unheard of. Then, the selected comic input as an example of her work is a pretty throw-away comic set in a bar where people are hooking up. What a disappointment!
The most interesting part of Girl Comics were the stories about the writers, inkers, and colorists themselves - both how long they'd been in the industry and how they got there (basically a man had to vouch for them and place them in the spot they were in). It was nice to see that some of these women got their start in the 40's and at the same time incredibly disappointing that they had to be reliant on the men around them to get a foot in the door.
I also rather liked one of the squares in the Jubilee comic, since she looked like me, if I were feminine. But that is neither here nor there. All in all, I'm a little disappointed that I spent my Denver Comic Con self-imposed book limit on this book.
blkmymorris's review against another edition
4.0
As with an anthology, it's a mixed bag. Some good, some bad. This is mostly filler. It's great to read the articles on women who worked at Marvel.
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