Comics for women

The image above is new promotional art for Friends of Lulu, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting women readership and participation in the comics industry. One of the refreshing things about FoL is that while other nonprofits are trying to amp up fundraising by pimping sexed-up images of women (a recurring subject of skewering on this site, you might have noticed), Friends of Lulu strives to provide an alternative to the hypersexual reductionism that is all too common in modern superhero comics. I enjoyed meeting their estimable prez Valerie D'Orazio at their New York Comic Con today, before my own panel on comics copyright.