Whether we like it or not comics as an overall in comic history have been sexist. But as time has passed comics have been becoming alot less sexist. Women used to be portayed as the average housewife doing all the right things. When women have a powerful role in a comic book they are always portayed as a sex symbol. This is inherently sexist and offensive to alot of women. Some people may say comics are sexist because of the lack of female heroes. But in reality most of the comic book fans are male so it really takes the theory away. If most comic book fans are male than it gives the comic book writers and inscentive and reason to make most of the charecters male. We need to realize this is a business people are looking to make money in. Feelings are going to get hurt this is a busniess and people need to realize that.
To begin with, I really do like the idea of reading a comic about comics. I think it's a great idea and it's very well executed. As I was reading the first two chapters, I was surprised at how many examples there were of art in recent (and ancient, in some cases) history that are variations of "sequential visual art" and thus the foundations of modern comics. I'd never even thought about it before and it was hard to believe how many different kinds there were. I also love all the discussion about how our human brains automatically interpret certain images in a specific way, how we see others constantly but we identify ourselves when we look at cartoons, and how inanimate objects automatically becomes extensions of our bodies. The pyramid of styles was very interesting too as a way to conceptualize and almost graph or "place" a specific art style in comics. In Comic Book Nation , I enjoyed reading about the evolution of early comics from "funnies...
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