FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Sunday, September 30, 2012
YEAR 1986: CARRIE KELLEY
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Year 1986 remains most noteworthy in the annals of American comics for having simultaneously introduced two superlative graphic novels: ...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
YEAR 1985: FEMFORCE
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Americomics' long-running FEMFORCE was not the first comics-feature to present an all-female team of heroes, but it's certainly ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
YEAR 1984: SUPERGIRL
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The debut of Kara Zor-El for the first time in an audiovisual medium may (according to fannish scuttlebutt) have led to the death of the...
Friday, August 24, 2012
YEAR 1983: AMETHYST, PRINCESS OF GEMWORLD
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In some ways DC Comics exceeded Marvel in its depiction of femmes formidables in the Golden and Silver Ages, though Marvel's breakou...
Thursday, August 16, 2012
YEAR 1982: V.I. WARSHAWSKI
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Though there had been tough lady detectives in earlier eras, ranging from Bertha Cool in the 1930s to Honey West in the 1950s, many sour...
Thursday, August 9, 2012
YEAR 1981: ELEKTRA
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Technically, Elektra's another character who first appeared in a comic in late 1980, as she first appears in DAREDEVIL #168, dated J...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
YEAR 1980: STARFIRE AND RAVEN
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Both Starfire and Raven make their first appearances in a hype-preview in DC COMICS PRESENTS #26 (Oct 80), leading up to the de...
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