Now here’s one of the reasons I shelled out five books for a subscription to Metafilter, posts like these leading me to blogs like Busty Girl Comics and cartoonists like Rampaige. I love the artwork on these cartoons, it reminds me of Chynna Clugston’s art on Blue Monday, loose, somewhat manga influenced and cute.
For all the annoyances the internet can bring you daily more faster and more often than traditional media could, you have to thank it for something like this. Fifteen-twenty years ago a series of cartoons about the real problems large breasted women face would at most have been a self published mini comic, maybe getting half a paragraph in a TCJ column, mostly gone unnoticed otherwise. That’s progress.
Alex
April 17, 2012 at 1:32 amI liked the artwork, but I hardly think it’s progress. I saw this also, and clicked through and saw a ton of creepazoid comments from guys in some form of “Hawt!” I can’t remember where I saw it or where I saw the comments, and I’m also not even remotely suggesting that’s an element of your post (far from it), but I’m still left with a bad taste in my mouth when viewing the cartoons. The women are varied and realistic in that series, but still “typically” attractive, and some of the ones I looked at were “Benefits of big boobs!” and really, anyone who doesn’t know the benefits and drawbacks of big boobs is kind of an idiot.
I dunno, I guess I’m saying that I kind of liked them, but as a woman I also think that calling them “progress” is a fundamental misunderstanding of the issues.
I think you and I agree on far more things than we disagree on, for the record. :)
I think stuff like this is progress: http://liliane.comicgenesis.com/ Unfortunately her comics kind of died after she had a kid. I’m hoping that means she’s focusing too much on lucrative illustrating of kids’ books than anything sinister. Discovered her online years ago and bought one of her books back when there was a queer bookstore in town, which has sadly since gone out of business. But I probably never would have discovered her without the internet. I dunno. I’m probably not saying there shouldn’t be busty problems comics. I feel in an ideal world there’s room for everything.