Lately, the news has been filled with articles about how women are being featured in advertisements, girls are being featured in comic books, and are getting attention in Hollywood. We love to hear this kind of news for two reasons. It’s about time. Females make up half the people and it’s about time we started seeing…
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“What bothers me is that a woman could never do what he does,” said one of my female CEO friends. “Imagine if a woman manager took a selfie every morning as she was leaving the house,” she added, demonstrating some of the poses that are regularly displayed on the pages of one of the top…
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At Gangly Sister, we’ve never hidden our geekiness, but we still get asked: “Why comic books?” or even “Do people still buy comic books?” In fact, when someone told us that was our real market, we thought the same thing. But the numbers are astonishing. Comic books have growing year-on-year sales consistently. And digital comics…
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I’ve been so busy trying to add value for women in tech that I forgot — you follow Gangly Sister because you want to know about Gangly Sister! Gangly Sister is moving from making video to making comic books for a number of reasons, mainly because it’s easier and more sustainable (read: makes enough money to…
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Women are taking an active role in funding one another’s businesses. This is a major step forward, and yet, the balance is still skewed. Most of the capital is still in the hands of men. For that matter, most of the experience is in the hands of men. At Gangly Sister, we’ve had positive experience with…
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As Women’s History Month rolls to a close, we’ve been thinking about what it takes to be a woman who makes history. As we are involved in making media to empower girls, it’s an important question. What does it mean to empower someone? What are the values and attributes someone needs to make a difference…
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I was amused this week by a tublr blog called Escher Girls which showcases female superheroes from comic books in impossible poses, and postulates how they could have gotten that way. (If you have samples, they are happy to receive your submissions. No pun intended, really.) As more and more of us stand up against…
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The reason I haven’t told you what I’m doing is because I have intimacy problems. A symptom of modern life is having intimacy problems. Instead of 10 good friends I have several hundred fairly good friends and several thousand non-intimate friends. So if I haven’t told you what I’m up to, no offense. I love…
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