{"id":25852,"date":"2017-07-27T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=25852"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:20:10","slug":"she-makes-comics-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/she-makes-comics-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"She Makes Comics (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Its ironic how closely \u201cShe Makes Comics\u201d has tied in to a key event in history, as Marisa Stotter\u2019s documentary was released almost at the same time Joan Lee, wife of Stan Lee died. Stan Lee is of course widely considered one of the godfathers of the comic book medium and superheroes. After Lee died, husband Stan was widely quoted as crediting much of his success and the success of Marvel to his wife, who acted as his muse and advisor for decades. So without Joan\u2019s influence comic books would have looked wildly different from today and \u201cShe Makes Comics\u201d celebrates the female influence of the medium.<\/p>\n

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Women have gone widely unnoticed and under credited since the creation of the medium, despite the fact that women have helped advance the art form since its conception. \u201cShe Makes Comics\u201d chronicles the very first notable female artist who dwelled in the slums making comics for her company, and how many female artists decided to change the art form for the better. \u201cShe Makes Comics\u201d is mostly a light and briskly paced historical documentary, but it does go over a lot of very disturbing footnotes in the history of women in comics. In particular how their complaints about rape humor in comics were dismissed by their male superiors, as well as the backlash they received for radically altering modern heroines to make them less like pin up models and more like actual warriors.<\/p>\n

Director Stotter discusses much of the history of the medium with women at the forefront, and sits down with a lot of very notable personalities and scholars. There are great interviews with Amy Dallen, Team Unicorn, groundbreaking DC Comics editor Karen Berger, Louise Simonson, Gail Simone, and even notable female comic book store owners working to change the industry. All in all, \u201cShe Makes Comics\u201d is a stellar and important historical document that breaks all stereotypes, and explores how important roles in the medium that have gone ignored for far too long.<\/p>\n

Now Available on ITunes, VOD, and Amazon VOD.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n