Round 1 of Miss Frizzle costume has begun.

Doctor Who Burlesque Concept - 4th Doctor

I like looking at things and imagining how to turn them into burlesque costumes. There’s a lot of iconic imagery in Doctor Who that makes for some pretty swanky burlesque concepts. Gonna do a whole series of them, but I had to start with Doc #4 and that long, long scarf.

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. 

I love beautiful, impractical, painful, ridiculous shoes. I also know when not to wear them. One of those times is “during fight practice.”

(via jessfink)

thesavagesalad:

Liberating Super-man by *RobinRone

HERE HAVE THIS GLORIOUS PICTURE TO ACCOMPANY YOU WHILST YOU READ THIS FLAWLESS ARTICLE

Steel buns.

(via duessa)

Inspired by this Comics Alliance article, which stated, regarding many female comic characters, “They read like men’s voices coming out of women’s faces.”

This isn’t to say men can’t write good women, or shouldn’t write women. It’s great when anyone writes fantastic female characters. But as far as I’m concerned, a lot of comic writers have never written women at all, only hollow wooden sex puppets.

(Prints of this if you want them.)

yamino:

So, the reason I was looking up aforementioned photos earlier was to reference this.

I had a bit of a rant on twitter today about how tired I am of seeing “action girls” and superheroines always wearing extremely revealing clothes that make NO SENSE for their job.

I haven’t read a whole lot of superhero comics, mainly for this reason.  They are so full of shameless fanservice and fap material and the way female characters are CONSISTENTLY portrayed is really annoying.

Now, I have nothing against women flaunting their sexuality, or having big boobs, or wearing revealing costumes.  What I do have a problem with is when EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER is dressed like some kind of fetish model, while the guys are pretty much always all covered, with costumes that emphasize their strength/character rather than their glorious bubble butts.

I guess what I’m saying is, if you’re okay with giving all your female characters skimpy bathing suits and boob-windows for crime-fighting suits, why not give us some guys in similar outfits?  Fair is fair.

Also, this guy’s name is Moon Man, and he’s up for grabs.  I’m giving him to you for free, Marvel and DC! Go wild.

Moon Man! I am rolling!

coelasquid:

rosalarian:

ladiesmakingcomics:

jillthompson:

For those of you who haven’t seen my version of WonderWoman, here she is again! I’d love to do an Original Graphic Novel!

YES PLEASE.

I’d read it!

I think my absolute favourite thing about this is that she actually looks Mediterranean.

Yeah, all the redesigns I see of her (by people not at DC) attempt to bring some kind of Greek elements to her costume, which I love. It makes sense for the character, looks nice, retains elements of her original costume, and is interesting.

I didn’t draw this, but I approve this message.

(via itswalky)

jessfink:

A quick sketch of Harley Quinn as a fella based on the new DCU version of Harley seen here: http://tinyurl.com/4xdjr2t

A lot of people have been pissed about this re design and a lot of ladies don’t like it. I am one of them! It is a dumb costume.

Megan Rosalarian Gedris has been redrawing ladies costumes with dudes wearing them and it’s good fun: http://tinyurl.com/3tnx2qb

Now, here’s the thing, I think this boy Harley looks crazy hot. The costume is pretty dumb in all design respects but I like hot dudes and if I saw this on the cover of a comic I would pick it up. HOWEVER I would assume that the comic would be FILLED with sex. Gay sex, straight sex, bondage/corset sex. That’s because this outfit looks designed for sex, certainly not beating people up.

If Harley wore this she wouldn’t be able to inflict much damage because she’d be stopping every 5 seconds to tug the top of her shitty, hot topic corset up, and EVERY lady knows what that feels like.

I’m not into super heroes, I know basically nothing about them other than what I watched on Batman the animated series. I also think one of the reasons I got into that show and not super hero comics is because female characters were treated well. They were sexy, but they did it without flopping their tits out all over the place  and looking like they belonged in penthouse for no good reason. They fit the stories they were in and the personalities they had. I was so fucking thrilled when the character Red Claw was introduced because she had MUSCLES, she was thick and butch and I had never seen that on a super hero lady before, HOW SHOCKING! I think it’s kind of sad how shocked I was by this character:

Once again,women aren’t asking for sexuality to be stripped from comics, we are just asking for characters that make sense to the story they are in.

Oh god, I totally do think this boy-Harley would be in a gay bondage comic. I would read that. But like she said, that’s soooooooo not the point of Harley Quinn.

Glad to see so many other people joining in this fun.