Jess Fink

Sex in comics

“There’s nothing wrong with making art to titillate — that is the entire point of porn and erotica, after all — but it should above all be honest about what it is trying to do, and who it is trying to do it for. Superhero comics often ends up looking a lot like a really specialized form of erotica aimed exclusively at straight men, which is fine if it’s trying to be erotica aimed exclusively at straight men, but can be a pretty strange experience if you’re showing up for action-adventure tales of fantasy and drama that are intended to appeal to a wide audience for non-erotic reasons.”

From a great article about sex in comics by Laura Hudson.

We pissed some people off with the gender swapped Valentines, but we made far MORE people really happy and that is a great sign. I honestly wouldn’t want to make any ignorant people happy with my art.

The point of the Valentines was to draw something fun and sexy for Valentines day, but they also couldn’t help but display certain hypocrisies in the way men and women are portrayed in super hero comics.

A lot of people seem to think being sexy is only for females and being strong is only for males. However, as evidenced by every strong female athlete and every smoking hot male model, those people are wrong.

Diversity in comics is something that is very important to me. Much of the world and the people in it aren’t tailored for these pissed off people and they’ll have to get used to it someday, because a lot of other people like to read comics too.

More gender swapped Valentines for Comics Alliance!

Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask!

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/14/gender-swapped-valentines-harley-quinn-and-poison-ivy-sailor-moo/

Since Sailor Moon’s costume is based on the sailor style school uniforms girls wear in Japan I decided to base the male version costume on the boys uniforms. I think it gives him sort of a princely look. PRINCE OF THE MOOOOON. I bet his transformation sequence is sexy.

More Gender swapped Valentines for Comics Alliance!

Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy!

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/14/gender-swapped-valentines-harley-quinn-and-poison-ivy-sailor-moo/

More Gender swapped Valentines for Comics Alliance!

Wolverine and Emma Frost:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/13/gender-swapped-valentines-cyclops-jean-grey-white-queen-wolv/

This one was probably the most fun to do. I love the idea of a big, thick, muscular Wolverine lady. Maybe Ross Campbell could draw it! :O

Something I tried to keep in mind with all of these is that if a character likes to show off their hot body as a female, they will keep those personality traits as a male. If being a sexy exhibitionist truly is built into a character they wouldn’t knock it off and cover themselves up as a male, and vice versa for females.

Anyway, even MORE to come!

Love,
Jess

More Gender swapped Valentines for Comics Alliance!

Batman and Catwoman!
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/11/gender-swap-valentine-batman-catwoman/

I couldn’t resist putting Catman in the old back breaker pose so many female super heroes get put in. However, I just couldn’t bring myself to fully break his back, haha! I guess I still wanted it to be a little sexy? Not a complete parody? It’s more like his butt cheek is popping over to give a little “hey gurrl”.

More to come!

Love, Jess

$madamethursday: [Image: A drawing of Superman in a redesigned costume and pose meant to be in the style that many super heroines and women in comics wear and how they are posed. The traditional Superman suit now has very, very high heels, the front parts of the thigh, arm, chest, abdomen and hip areas are now removed, revealing bare skin. A tight red bikini-style bottom replaces the traditional red brief-style bottoms. He stands, cape in the wind, with his chest thrust forward and his bottom thrust back in a “sexy” stance.\ spastasmagoria: lady-condom: t1mco: Needless to say, this is the worst thing I’ve ever drawn. I’m sorry Superman. I’m so sorry. My beloved boyscout. Oh, Benevolent Blue. Ah ah ah forgive me this atrocity oh oh oh. Okay going to go watch Sherlock now wish me luck. Dayum <333333 We should redo ALL the male super heroes like this The high heels, though. THE HEELS. I love that. Because that is exactly the kind of shoes they put on women in comics and it makes me want to throw a brick at something EVERY SINGLE TIME. Apparently it’s too much to ask that artists think of something besides the male gaze long enough to at least give women in comics REASONABLE FUCKING FOOTWEAR. Seriously. I want to know what kind of skeletal structure they think women possess because not only do women apparently have SPINES MADE OF RUBBER BANDS AND FLEXISTRAWS so they can have both ass and tits facing the viewer, but apparently their hips and legs may be molded out of silly putty that ends in ANKLES AND FEET MADE OF SOME KIND OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ADAMANTIUM ALLOY AND DISALLOWS ANY NERVES OR NEED FOR BLOODFLOW because holy fuck the shoes. I seriously wonder how these women don’t have constant stress fractures or soft tissue injuries. There’s a reason athletes and soldiers wear either sneakers or boots or something like it. I really do want to get some high heels just like this, find the artists who draw them on comic book women, then make them run an obstacle course, run stairs in a stadium, try some pilates, and then run a mile in these EXACT SHOES before they sit back down at the drawing board. Because that’s what you’re having women in comics do. And for no other reason than it looks good to straight dudes.$

madamethursday:

[Image: A drawing of Superman in a redesigned costume and pose meant to be in the style that many super heroines and women in comics wear and how they are posed. The traditional Superman suit now has very, very high heels, the front parts of the thigh, arm, chest, abdomen and hip areas are now removed, revealing bare skin. A tight red bikini-style bottom replaces the traditional red brief-style bottoms. He stands, cape in the wind, with his chest thrust forward and his bottom thrust back in a “sexy” stance.\

spastasmagoria:

lady-condom:

t1mco:

Needless to say, this is the worst thing I’ve ever drawn.

I’m sorry Superman. I’m so sorry. My beloved boyscout. Oh, Benevolent Blue. Ah ah ah forgive me this atrocity oh oh oh.

Okay going to go watch Sherlock now wish me luck.

Dayum <333333

We should redo ALL the male super heroes like this

The high heels, though. THE HEELS. I love that. Because that is exactly the kind of shoes they put on women in comics and it makes me want to throw a brick at something EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Apparently it’s too much to ask that artists think of something besides the male gaze long enough to at least give women in comics REASONABLE FUCKING FOOTWEAR.

Seriously. I want to know what kind of skeletal structure they think women possess because not only do women apparently have SPINES MADE OF RUBBER BANDS AND FLEXISTRAWS so they can have both ass and tits facing the viewer, but apparently their hips and legs may be molded out of silly putty that ends in ANKLES AND FEET MADE OF SOME KIND OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ADAMANTIUM ALLOY AND DISALLOWS ANY NERVES OR NEED FOR BLOODFLOW because holy fuck the shoes. I seriously wonder how these women don’t have constant stress fractures or soft tissue injuries. There’s a reason athletes and soldiers wear either sneakers or boots or something like it.

I really do want to get some high heels just like this, find the artists who draw them on comic book women, then make them run an obstacle course, run stairs in a stadium, try some pilates, and then run a mile in these EXACT SHOES before they sit back down at the drawing board. Because that’s what you’re having women in comics do. And for no other reason than it looks good to straight dudes.