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Limit Break Comics to Launch Fractured Realms at Thought Bubble 2023

Limit Break Comics to Launch Fractured Realms at Thought Bubble 2023 #comics #comicbooks #thoughtbubble

Dublin based comic collective Limit Break Comics will launch Fractured Realms, an anthology of Norse Horror comics, at Thought Bubble 2023. The book is the third myth-anthology to be published by Limit Break Comics, following the success of Turning Roads and Down Below. Thought Bubble 2023 takes place November 11 and 12 at the Harrogate Convention Centre in North Yorkshire. Valhalla Awaits. In…

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Rasa Von Werder (also known as Kellie Everts; born Rasa Sofija Jakstas, July 16, 1945) is a German author, former stripper, female bodybuilder, photographer, evangelist, mystic, contemplative, and founder of a church. 

She understands both Christianity and Yoga. She believes her Mission is to empower women, and to restore the worship of God as Mother

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Times have changed, or have they?

Sometime ago on the Escher Girls blog, I think, there was somebody who tried submitting their artwork of Batwoman to various publishing houses, but said that the editors found their rendition of her too fat, having a wide waist and too small breasts. Times might have changed for the better these days, the more women get into the comics industry. Or have they?

It does give insight into how and why so many superhero cartoonists are conditioned to draw women in a particular way, it's not that big breasts are impossible in the real world. But that female characters are often given really narrow waists, often to give the illusion of having wider hips. It's possible for someone to have a somewhat narrower waist, but the funny thing about having wider hips is that when paired with a normal waistline the torso looks wider.

It's not that these superhero cartoonists who draw women in a particular way are necessarily bad artists, but that due to those standards the way they draw women is kind of highly idealised. I feel these editors who rejected their artwork were thinking of Frank Cho's women, who all tend to have big breasts and narrow waists. It might be a sexier look, but I feel this is what many superhero cartoonists ended up striving for, regardless of their own actual preferences.

Comes to think of it this way, it's kind of rare for superhero cartoonists to draw female characters as having any real body fat as what somebody pointed out. One might wonder why almost none of them give their female characters somewhat flabby arms and thighs, it's not that I'm against muscular women. But whenever they draw women at all, they're either skinny but buxom or muscular but buxom.

But not buxom and kind of flabby, despite having some muscle tone. Oddly enough, if women tend to have more body fat than men do, giving female characters somewhat flabby arms and thighs despite being fit would hit the sweet spot between making them look like they actually exercise and still being recognisably female. It sounds kind of gender essentialist of me to say this, but I actually look like this.

I have flabby arms, despite having noticeable biceps, and flabby thighs despite having muscular calves. I suppose most superhero cartoonists keep on giving female characters either skinny but buxom physiques or muscular but buxom physiques (think Kellie Everts/Rasa von Werder), mostly because I feel it's going to be hard making a character look female in certain, much subtler ways.

It's not anatomically inaccurate, but I feel there's a subtlety to female body fat that's there in fairly fit women though hard to pull off without going into extremes for many superhero cartoonists.

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