There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.
If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.
I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.
There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.