As an alternative to STABBY RAGE...

[buggery]

Yeah, I've seen all the same scans showing that WIZARD magazine can hire utter tools to talk about (and demonstrate) drawing female comics characters that the rest of LJ-based comics fandom is frothing about today. Not gonna rant, per se. Plenty of that going on, and I just don't have the energy for a rant today.

Instead, a somewhat more zen approach:

Big Beautiful Wonder Woman, the blog of a WW fan who believes Diana is a prime example of women looking better the less they look ...well, like Michael Turner's vision of Supergirl.

All the art at BBWW is by other artists, and the blogger accepts and displays any art of Wonder Woman drawn with more heft to her than she's allowed to have officially. This means, sadly unsurprisingly, both that some of the art poses Wonder Woman like a girly pinup, and that some of it is drawn by artists who can't conceive of a fat woman being anything but unattractive.

That said, the second image currently on display (by Pedro Caraca) is possibly the least representative of the dozens of pieces of artwork contributed to BBWW; and while I wish I could say the third image (by Colin McK) is equally unrepresentative, truthfully there is a fair amount of cheesecake here -- which remains exploitative even if the women are drawn with less-unrealistic bodies, or bodies unrealistic in ways other than the comics-industry standard.

For me, though, it's worth scrolling past that crap in order to appreciate art like the image currently at the top of the page, by Tom Burgos, or like the sixth image on the current page, by Juan 'JayTee' Tesorero, or even better, less-recently-posted art like this one from July by Mike Manley of Diana -- and Clark.

More somewhat-less insanely-image-heavy links for the dialup set...

23 Sep 06 (most recent) post with art by Tom Burgos****
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sassypants-saturday-post-tom-burgos.html

21 Sep 06 post with art by Pedro Caraca,* Colin McK,* Vinicius Visentini,* & Fernando de Sousa Lima**
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/09/were-still-here.html

30 Aug 06 post with art by Juan Tesorero (JayTee),**** Gerson Witte,* & Andre Valvassori***
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/whole-world-is-waiting-for-you-monster.html

23 Aug 06 post with art by Adam Koford***
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/part-two-electric-boogaloo-adam-koford.html

22 Aug 06 post with art by Dave Curd,** Stephen Sakurai,*** Jason Loo,**** & Aaron Conley***
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-adore-mi-amore-bbww-roundup-part.html
(the image link for Loo's art appears to be broken, but can be found on his blog here:
http://astroloo.blogspot.com/2006/08/fat-wonder-woman.html )

19 Aug 06 post with art by Jason Yungbluth***
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/little-late-night-bite-jason-yungbluth.html

16 Aug 06 post with art by Adam Koford****
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/offset-old-school-and-oh-so-cool-adam.html

16 Aug 06 (separate) post with art by Mike Oeming***
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/little-in-middle-but-she-got-much-back.html

16 Aug 06 (separate) post with art by Bonaia Rosado**
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/cutest-wittle-wunner-wummin-bonaia.html

08 Aug 06 post with art by Bryan Lee O'Malley**
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/lady-in-red-bryan-lee-omalley.html

05 Aug 06 post with art by Nik Holmes*** ZOMBIE WARNING
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/dead-to-me-nik-holmes.html

02 Aug 06 post with art by Kelli Nelson****
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/woah-kelli-nelson.html

01 Aug 06 post with art by Andy Smith*
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-you-can-eat-andy-smith.html

01 Aug 06 (separate) post with art by Joel Carroll****
http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/2006/08/big-bottomed-girls-joel-carroll.html

The asterisks (* to ****) beside each artist's name denote the number of stars I've rated the art by that artist in the referenced post, based on my own biased view of how offensive (*) or empowered (****) the depiction of Diana in the image is. Possibly this is of use even to those with spiffy fast connections, now that I think about it.


70s Porn Star Buddha says: Feed your soul, feed your body.

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

This is very interesting, because the less flattering ones got me thinking how, whenever large people are depicted in the media, nine times out of ten they are presented in direct relation to food. It's as if the fat body cannot be conceived of as doing anything other than eating (probably excessively). Or, in rare instances, crushing with its large weight. It's very unusual to see a woman of size (even moderate size) shown doing "stuff", and if she is shown alongside food, some kind of moral weight is attached to it. The large-woman-with-food is either a monstrous/gleeful excessive consumer, an excessive consumer desperately struggling with her monstrous urges, or a person who nurtures others, possibly a bit too much, as evidenced by her size. When I was growing up, magazines would have fat characters (eg Bessie Bunter), and you didn't just see that they were fat, you had to see them scoffing cream buns too.

It's quite odd when you think about it.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Well said.

Ruby
making a note to look through the site soon, with the handy guide.

[padraigbiqul.livejournal.com]

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