I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.
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.
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.
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.
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.
Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.