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A Diamond Previews Full Of Women, In May

Published Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:00:46 -0500

Last updated Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:06:24 -0500

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Well, presidential candidates can have binders full of women. Why not catalogues?

The next edition of Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly catalogue, for comics shipping in July, will have a very female feel.

Not so much the cover, though Dick Grayson does have quite the female following.

But on the insight, Previews is taking the opportunity to highlight work by female creators, or featuring female leads or sometimes both.

And, putting their money where their mouth is, giving retailers a little extra discount on certain graphic novels.

Previews also features an interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick, talking about the current gender disconnect in comics, with Kelly saying,

Women are WILDLY under-represented both on the production side and on the page. This is not just a comics problem, it's an cultural problem…

Doing away with the myth that women don't create or read comics would be a great place to start. There remains this pervasive notion that we don't have more women readers because superhero comics are 90% of our industry in this country and superhero comics don't and can't appeal to women…

It's simply not true. There is nothing inherently masculine about heroism, or the pulp aesthetic or power fantasies — believe me, I'm a five foot tall woman. I can teach any man in any room about power fantasies — I promise. Superheroes aren't inherently masculine any more than opera, Shakespeare or myth.

Diamond are also encouraging retailers to use in store posters, shelf talkers and headers to highlight certain tiles… will your store soon feature the likes of these?