Replies from the Komix For Girls? Wha? questionnaire! #01
Posted 10:14 AM by AD in Labels: essay, girls, komix, questionnaire
The questionnaire can be found here. These answers are from Mix!
Dapat may libre akong kopya ng komiks mo when it comes out, for being the first commenter or something.
1) Batman comics, a healthy smattering of other DC titles, never Marvel titles 'cause I'm a purist. Locally, some early Alanguilan, Vergara, and that comic 'sex, rock gods, and something something.' But my hands down favorite Arre was Trip to Tagaytay.
2) Nah, I just like wasting my cash/ time.
Superhero komiks kasi exciting. Insane plot twists abound that could never exist in any other genre and are taken as seriously as the Old Testament (he SHOT a GOD with a TIME BULLET. His used his MEMORIES as a WEAPON. BLACK RINGS bring the DEAD BACK TO LIFE) without sacrificing some sort of highly esoteric internal logic. Local comics kasi... well, baka makatisod ng magandang kwento.
3) Most my friends disagree when I claim that superhero comics are geared for girls. C'mon, look at those abs, that bulging package. Sure, the action and violence might make the boyz happy but dude. Seriously? Muscular men doing crotch-shot jumps right in my face? That's fangirl service. ...Or baka may kinalaman ito sa pag-buo ng 'ideal'/ impossible female fantasy of the perfect guy-- yung maginoo pero medyo bastos, can beat the shit outta the Joker but will never hurt you shtick-- parang yung super bishonen jerks ng shojo manga who still somehow get the girls. (see, sineseryoso ko ang survey mo)
Morrison, we already sort of talked about. Nancy Collins kasi... well, Swamp Thing just rocked all around.
Local, hm. Wala pa masyado akong nababasa that has blown me away...
5) I have to admit that the local komiks industry seems to be leagues ahead of other countries in terms of gender politics. Zatturnah at Trese pa lang as characters, panalo na tayo. Zatturnah and Trese writers, more so. And these are the two most popular Filipino komiks in recent memory (sabi ng source ko, si Dr. Pwet, PhD. Sorry, no reference. Gut instinct lang). As of conventions, there are women. Don't know what percentage of those women read a lot of comics, though I do feel the comics scene here is pretty friendly. AND I'LL TELL YOU MY OUTLANDISH THEORY AS TO WHY-- kasi largely middle class ang komiks scene dito ngayon. Insert here a tricky discourse on the 'castration' of the middle class male who averts himself from the 'macho' image for fear of being associated with the low-born working class but also avoids the too-feminine image of the homosexual who is seen as a deviant, resulting in a class of males who hide behind the guise of 'sensitivity' and will not step up for their women, etc, etc, bitter ranting. Tapos na ang panahon ng palengke komiks, the Pinoy golden age with Kafgu and Indio and such. YUN, dude komiks kung dude komiks.
6) I do want to make my own komiks, but I don't necessarily want to make it specifically for girls 'cause I'm not crazy.
Kasi... complicated mga babae eh. You always run the risk of generalizing and stereotyping women if you try to do something specifically geared toward them. Toys, dolls = creating unachievable body images. Hello kitty and such = stereotyping women as fragile, pink-loving, whatevers. Chick flick/ chick lit = as if to say that women are incapable of appreciating 'serious' literature. Twilight = well. Yung parang ganoon? I dunno why that is, either. I'm just saying there's that risk.
Also, I read somewhere that these two manga series (later turned into anime series) Yu yu Hakusho (ghost fighter) and Rurouni Kenshin (samurai X) were original conceived as shojo titles, as evidenced by the gaggle of bishonen boys. Even when they were turned into anime and garnered male audiences, the female audiences still outnumbered the male. Can these be considered 'geared for women?'
I think the key factors for making girl comics/ comics for girls are:
1. don't patronize your audience/ readers because they're women
2. a good story-- which is always asexual in nature
3. non-hideous looking male characters.
7) Um. Not really.
8) Just good stories, god. Less masturbation from artists who think action sequences/ squiggly motion lines = good story
9) masturbation from artists. Oo, ang daming magaling magdrowing sa Pilipinas. the indie sections of every komikon proves that. Pero bat walang marunong magkwento?
10) Nowhere.
Dapat may libre akong kopya ng komiks mo when it comes out, for being the first commenter or something.
1) Batman comics, a healthy smattering of other DC titles, never Marvel titles 'cause I'm a purist. Locally, some early Alanguilan, Vergara, and that comic 'sex, rock gods, and something something.' But my hands down favorite Arre was Trip to Tagaytay.
2) Nah, I just like wasting my cash/ time.
Superhero komiks kasi exciting. Insane plot twists abound that could never exist in any other genre and are taken as seriously as the Old Testament (he SHOT a GOD with a TIME BULLET. His used his MEMORIES as a WEAPON. BLACK RINGS bring the DEAD BACK TO LIFE) without sacrificing some sort of highly esoteric internal logic. Local comics kasi... well, baka makatisod ng magandang kwento.
3) Most my friends disagree when I claim that superhero comics are geared for girls. C'mon, look at those abs, that bulging package. Sure, the action and violence might make the boyz happy but dude. Seriously? Muscular men doing crotch-shot jumps right in my face? That's fangirl service. ...Or baka may kinalaman ito sa pag-buo ng 'ideal'/ impossible female fantasy of the perfect guy-- yung maginoo pero medyo bastos, can beat the shit outta the Joker but will never hurt you shtick-- parang yung super bishonen jerks ng shojo manga who still somehow get the girls. (see, sineseryoso ko ang survey mo)
Morrison, we already sort of talked about. Nancy Collins kasi... well, Swamp Thing just rocked all around.
Local, hm. Wala pa masyado akong nababasa that has blown me away...
5) I have to admit that the local komiks industry seems to be leagues ahead of other countries in terms of gender politics. Zatturnah at Trese pa lang as characters, panalo na tayo. Zatturnah and Trese writers, more so. And these are the two most popular Filipino komiks in recent memory (sabi ng source ko, si Dr. Pwet, PhD. Sorry, no reference. Gut instinct lang). As of conventions, there are women. Don't know what percentage of those women read a lot of comics, though I do feel the comics scene here is pretty friendly. AND I'LL TELL YOU MY OUTLANDISH THEORY AS TO WHY-- kasi largely middle class ang komiks scene dito ngayon. Insert here a tricky discourse on the 'castration' of the middle class male who averts himself from the 'macho' image for fear of being associated with the low-born working class but also avoids the too-feminine image of the homosexual who is seen as a deviant, resulting in a class of males who hide behind the guise of 'sensitivity' and will not step up for their women, etc, etc, bitter ranting. Tapos na ang panahon ng palengke komiks, the Pinoy golden age with Kafgu and Indio and such. YUN, dude komiks kung dude komiks.
6) I do want to make my own komiks, but I don't necessarily want to make it specifically for girls 'cause I'm not crazy.
Kasi... complicated mga babae eh. You always run the risk of generalizing and stereotyping women if you try to do something specifically geared toward them. Toys, dolls = creating unachievable body images. Hello kitty and such = stereotyping women as fragile, pink-loving, whatevers. Chick flick/ chick lit = as if to say that women are incapable of appreciating 'serious' literature. Twilight = well. Yung parang ganoon? I dunno why that is, either. I'm just saying there's that risk.
Also, I read somewhere that these two manga series (later turned into anime series) Yu yu Hakusho (ghost fighter) and Rurouni Kenshin (samurai X) were original conceived as shojo titles, as evidenced by the gaggle of bishonen boys. Even when they were turned into anime and garnered male audiences, the female audiences still outnumbered the male. Can these be considered 'geared for women?'
I think the key factors for making girl comics/ comics for girls are:
1. don't patronize your audience/ readers because they're women
2. a good story-- which is always asexual in nature
3. non-hideous looking male characters.
7) Um. Not really.
8) Just good stories, god. Less masturbation from artists who think action sequences/ squiggly motion lines = good story
9) masturbation from artists. Oo, ang daming magaling magdrowing sa Pilipinas. the indie sections of every komikon proves that. Pero bat walang marunong magkwento?
10) Nowhere.
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