A discussion at DragonCon enitled Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Comics, consisting of Kelly Sue DeConnick, Laurenn McCubbins, Damien Williams, John Flowers, Tini Howard, Kari Storla, and Daniel Amrhein had many highlights You can read a number of them here.
DeConnick has been having meetings with network executives who are suddenly saying that they're looking for complex female protagonists, and[...]