dear tumblr. i need comic book sources!

you know how those posts are going around about the innacuracies of female characters in comic books? with their spines bent out of shape and ridiculous proportions? well, i’m writing my paper on the images in comic books of women and i need some juicy sources (like publisher, book # and page) that i can use to illustrate my point to infer that looking at these fictional chicks does weird stuff to people. they can be images of women with impossible proportions, ridiculous outfits, or that just tend to be shown in gender-biased situations. examples with pictures would be preferable, but i’m willing to do some digging to find them myself.

note: they can be from any comic, but the main ones i’m focusing on are DC, Marvel, Shonen Jump, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Chao, and Nakayoshi. i don’t have any examples currently from Chao or Nakayoshi so if you know some from those serializations PLEASE send them this way.

reblog this with sources and/or send me some at my email! lychee.dragondragon@gmail.com. especially if you find some really good ones! as long as they’re not pornographic serializations i can probably use anything you throw at me! 

thankyou!~

i love science fiction

especially graphic novels. i’ve already given my two cents about Franken Fran, but i’m reading the two most recent volumes and i’m always impressed by the level of research put into them.

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this manga has some cute and silly panels

me circa 2006

ne、ne

sazandodile:

divineretribution:

bakuhatsuai:

iarechou:

deejayshorty:

monstermanga:

…make me wanna cry

 ねぇねぇ、by 追川うそ

All my tears, you may have it ;A;

Crying forever

;____; *SNIFFLES LOUDLY*

;A;

SOBBING ;^;

thats one of the dogs from Dogs: Bullets and Carnage

i

monstars…!

(also i did tear up especially when this is playing while you read)

(via macchabee)

i have to share you some of the shoujou titles i found

i have no idea what “My Darling is now eating meat.” is about, nor what “Mean body temerature” could be, but i’m depserately curous about “Pudding in a horizontal line”.

did i mention how much i love science fiction?

oops <3

fuck all these ideas are just so COOL~~~

a minute or two for Franken Fran! by Katsuhisa Kigitsu

(^ fan art, that i did not create nor do i own)

i think i reblogged this anyway but i’ll do it again because Franken Fran is one of my most adored and favorite comics. sticking medical-science fiction into a manga, along with classic horror elements makes for a superb read and visually stimulating artistic eyecandy. gritty, gnarly, gory, and streamlined, this is a sci-fi/horror/gore comic i did not think i would be so fond of when i first read it.

the art style lends itself well to those who enjoy the anime touch, while not compromising proportion, accuracy and creativity. no sugoi kawaii desudesu here (although there are some really cute scenes here and there). the artist favors realism over stylization, and the attention to the realism really pleases me as an artist. i don’t know how many interesting plots or complex and intriguing relationships have been stamped over with shitty rendering and blatant violation of the rules of gravity. that just ruins the entire thing for me. if those stories were told in simple writing or novel form, i might get into them easier. but with FF, i got into the art first, then found how wacked out and beyond-the-safety-zone-of-thought it was. and i love it.

a lot of what Kigitsu offers in FF is the odd, the weird, and the tings you think of that you probably wouldn’t say out loud in a normal public setting. it goes from just some thing strange (like a dude with a human head and a cat’s body) to repairing a girls body after a serious accident by initiating a pupate metamorphosis and recuperation in her genetic code. she literally turns into a  grasshopper or something. :o here’s a small situational example: in one conversation Fran is making a deal with a client and in the middle of talking her eyeballs fall out into her soup. and she puts them back in. this obviously breaches the realm of reality but the story keeps going and the character continues to exist in a functioning state. its not a ‘WOAH LOOK AT THAT COOL AOFWUHFOJ” moment. okay her guests are a little freaked but it goes back to normal after a minute or so. in another situation, Fran is trapped after a rock slide cut them off in a tunnel with a tour crew and her assistant, (who by the way is basically a walking/functioning human-shaped sack with a bunch of zippers all over her body that carry extra organs and tissues for any operation Fran needs) and she ends up operating on nearly everyone in the tunnel they are trapped in, in order to save them. in the end though, they die one by one of fever or blood loss and she takes their now useless organs back to her lab with her. would you think of something like that as a story??? now, after reading Franken Fran, i’ve got all kinds of interesting ideas in my head o_o

not to say that gore and monsters is a negative or bad thing (breaker for something you probably don’t want to show at work or school)

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