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logansrogue) wrote2010-11-04 07:13 pm
logansrogue) wrote2010-11-04 07:13 pm
Carrie and the Magnetism - The Real Story.
A lot of people ask me what my comics are about. I can sum them up all pretty well.
BirdMartiaN - Sci-Fi Parody of Superhero and Alien Lore.
The Muse - A woman is sent mad by seeing her own muse, is put on parole and babysat by Fae, then goes to challenge the Fae and recover her freedom.
But Carrie has always been hard to explain. It's been hard because, really, Carrie and the Magnetism isn't written for men in particular. So anything that I say about the surface story, seems pretty boring to the people I talk to (fashion, image, social struggles, inner power). I've been told, again and again, through either marketing, discussions or feedback, that this is a bad thing. I've found myself ashamed of a product that was heavily inspired by Jem, She-Ra, Xena, Buffy, Dark Angel, Wonder Woman, and strangely, The X-Men. Carrie and the Magnetism is the comic *I* want to write, that *I* want to read. It's pulpy, it's soapy, it's fun and it's tough. There's heart in this fucker, and I can't wait to show you that heart.
But I realised, reading one of my favourite blogs (Hoyden, actually) that the heart of Carrie and the Magnetism, the thing that the struggles of these two disparate groups of fashionable, tough women represent, is the two things that make things so tough for women today:
Real Honest-to-God Feminism, and the Feminism-Lite that women are "allowed" to adhere to in the current system.
There's a kind of girl-power, 'real women', 'dove soap', 'let's all use this shaver', 'oooh girls, let's have a shoe party' kind of feminism that the marketing companies and the television shows love to peddle. And they always, *always* use it in some kind of imagined "Battle of the Sexes". It's the sort of thing that keeps women in competition with each other. It's a sort of Faux-Feminism that means that nothing really changes, even though it has all the appearance of the paradigm having overturned the ways of the past.
It's not obvious, though. When reading Carrie, one might think it was about women superheroes and villains duking it out in funky outfits. But underneath, hopefully, it'll be more than that. I say hopefully cause, well, I don't know how good I am at this comic business just yet. :)
BirdMartiaN - Sci-Fi Parody of Superhero and Alien Lore.
The Muse - A woman is sent mad by seeing her own muse, is put on parole and babysat by Fae, then goes to challenge the Fae and recover her freedom.
But Carrie has always been hard to explain. It's been hard because, really, Carrie and the Magnetism isn't written for men in particular. So anything that I say about the surface story, seems pretty boring to the people I talk to (fashion, image, social struggles, inner power). I've been told, again and again, through either marketing, discussions or feedback, that this is a bad thing. I've found myself ashamed of a product that was heavily inspired by Jem, She-Ra, Xena, Buffy, Dark Angel, Wonder Woman, and strangely, The X-Men. Carrie and the Magnetism is the comic *I* want to write, that *I* want to read. It's pulpy, it's soapy, it's fun and it's tough. There's heart in this fucker, and I can't wait to show you that heart.
But I realised, reading one of my favourite blogs (Hoyden, actually) that the heart of Carrie and the Magnetism, the thing that the struggles of these two disparate groups of fashionable, tough women represent, is the two things that make things so tough for women today:
Real Honest-to-God Feminism, and the Feminism-Lite that women are "allowed" to adhere to in the current system.
There's a kind of girl-power, 'real women', 'dove soap', 'let's all use this shaver', 'oooh girls, let's have a shoe party' kind of feminism that the marketing companies and the television shows love to peddle. And they always, *always* use it in some kind of imagined "Battle of the Sexes". It's the sort of thing that keeps women in competition with each other. It's a sort of Faux-Feminism that means that nothing really changes, even though it has all the appearance of the paradigm having overturned the ways of the past.
It's not obvious, though. When reading Carrie, one might think it was about women superheroes and villains duking it out in funky outfits. But underneath, hopefully, it'll be more than that. I say hopefully cause, well, I don't know how good I am at this comic business just yet. :)