The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.
I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.