Comics Are For Girls Now… Honest

This short Washington Times piece on the new market for girls' comics is strangely irksome in the details. A short list:

It doesn't get around to manga until like the tenth graph, and never interviews anyone who comes from that part of the field or can speak authoritatively about it. And while I guess one might be able argue that manga cemented an American female comics readership rather than created one in partnership with anime -- which I'd guess is the real gateway for a majority of the costumes they're seeing -- the article focuses almost exclusively on the fruits of the post-manga explosion. Also, I don't really think that a significant number of men born in 1928 were in charge at either of the two majors post-1980, if the CMX imprint was DC's big product push I probably wouldn't have had to look up three weeks ago to see if it was publishing yet, the writer slightly undercuts Trina Robbins' characterization of the number of late-'40s comics readers in the very next paragraph, the article makes Fiona Avery's hiring at Marvel sound like a negotiation for privileges on Planet of the Slave Women, and we learn that DC is working with Jill Thompson now.

It's obvious these things aren't written by or for comics-savvy folk, but still.
 
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