Ironically (or not, thanks Alanis Morrissette for forever making this confusing) this book was actually meant to offset the bleakness of Oates’ latest short story collection. It didn’t work.Both books were what you’d consider feminist works, featuring female authors, female protagonists and female perspectives. I figured this one might be lighter, it is cartoons, after all, but it wasn’t, not by much. And sometimes it just wasn’t good enough for the tone to matter. The other reason I was inte

Si no me equivoco, hice un poco de trampa y me salté el relato en prosa que metieron a mitad de esta antología de historietas. Aunque supongo que ese cuentito lo terminaré leyendo tarde o temprano, no creo que eso cambie mi idea global de este libro: una muy buena e interesante recopilación de comics cuyo único punto en común es haber sido realizados por mujeres. Según recuerdo, el que más me gustó fue el de Jill Thompson y el que menos me gustó fue uno que dije "Esto parece hecho por una nena d...

This was originally published as Sexy Chix in 2006. It's an anthology of short stories by female comix creators. Some of these stories were completely incoherent or marred by bad lettering that made them difficult to read. The best story was by Gail Simone and Rebecca Woods. The story by Diana Schutz is actually a 12 page prose story with a few accompanying illustrations by Amanda Conner. That one I skipped because I hate reading prose in my comics.

I rather suspect that editor Diana Schutz was given the task of collecting female comic artists and package them under a title likely to draw attention. Her answer was to use the word “sex” and add to the tease the slang word “Chix” These women deserve better. Many were established cartoonists without the anthology and all rate a more elevated term than “Sexy Chix”Too much about the title.In 101 pages a reader gets a sample of 16 women practicing in a field not then (2006) nor now (2021) known f...

Puh, ca. 2,6 Sterne, mit einem Augenzwinkern aufgerundet; da war die Erwartungshaltung etwas zu hoch angesetzt!?

Anthologies are notorious for having a wide range of quality; distressingly, that's true here more than usual. Some of the stories are okay, but others are mystifyingly bad - whether because the content is trivial (an otherwise acclaimed cartoonist gossiping up a tale of a friend who betrayed her), or because the craft of comic narrative isn't very polished, or because the "story" in question goes nowhere. One entry isn't even a comic at all, but rather a 12-page, 14-year-old text piece the auth...

Featuring 16 stories over 90 pages, Drawing Lines: An Anthology of Women Cartoonists is a very quick read. And as often happens with anthologies, the quality of the content varies considerably. The pieces that don't work, really don't work, either because of sloppy art, slapdash writing, or both. (Also, who likes every story in an anthology, anyway?) But enough of that, because the stories here that work well, really work well, and even if the anthology consisted only of those stories, this woul...

An anthology of stories written by women where most of them don't pass the Bechdel Test. The irony would be funny if it wasn't so sad

Eh, it was fine.It was far too short and some of the pieces felt dated now in 2020.

A messy anthology that “showcased” women cartoonist, but was pretty unremarkable. The title is, I don’t know, supposed to be a reclaiming of female characters in comic books, or a nod to the sexy chicks that write comics, but this collection didn’t work.... or I just don’t get what they were trying to do here. I think it was an “anything goes” kind of collection that showed female characters being everything but sexy... an interesting concept is still needed though!I really liked Colleen Coover’...

One of the best anthologies around. Some stories were a bit maudlin, but there was a terrific range of styles (artistic and writing) and more than enough winners to easily make the book worthwhile.Joyce Carol Oates/Laurenn McCubbin's collaboration was moving and intelligent, while Jill Thompson's hilarious yarn made me smile. Gail Simone reminded me that she can tell moving stories in addition to the fun ones; Meghan Kinder's career looks very promising (this being her first published work); and...

MOST of them were great but 2-3 weren't worth the time to read.

It took me a long time to track down a copy of this and I wish I could give it 3 1/2 stars, because there was some stuff I really liked about it and some stuff I just hated. But that's an anthology for you. The Jill Thomson piece was very cute but pretty light on story, which is OK. Really nice art about a mermaid with a crush on a fisherman who uses magic to snatch him away from his girl. Also the Gail Simone story about the hairdresser was very moving. I didn't like the Alexa Kichen piece at a...

Actual rating: 2.5This was a pretty mixed bag in terms of content. Some of the stories are quite poignant and well-illustrated. Others make me question how they got published. There isn't much in the way of an overarching theme other than gender, but several of the stories are quite evocative and emotional. Overall, I don't regret picking Sexy Chix (and what is with that name?!?!) up at my local used book store, but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to anyone.

I thought this will be like an academic book, instead it's the work of 21 artists. I like 90% of what I saw and read. Is a good compilation of stories and I will look for mor works of some of the authors.I also made an Spanish review here:https://pananime.com/LeAn/index.html

El mejor relato es el de Collen Coover. Hay otro par de historias de calidad y profundidad. La calidad de el resto de las historias es muy desigual, con algunas siendo directamente malas. Me resulta extraña e innecesaria la historia de Diana Schutz, no es ni remotamente una novela gráfica o un cómic; soy consciente de que esa afirmación puede ser superficial, pero ese extenso espacio que dedicaron a su prosa se pudo emplear en otra artista.

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.

This is an anthology of short, feminist cartoons. Honestly, I didn't like a single one of them, though a few were okay. Most of the stories lacked a critical engagement with feminism and the stories they were telling, but this could be because the stories are easily recognizable, and thus when I'm reading about them I want to go deeper. These are the horror stories every girl grows up hearing--rape, incest, sexual manipulation, abortion, etc. I wanted to see more about the stories and the women

Provocative collection edited by Diana Schutz with interesting pieces by Jill Thompson, Sarah Grace, Joelle Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Roberta Gregory and Lauren McCubbin. And that's just for starters.

Great compilation of many female graphic novelists' work. I was only familiar with a few of these creators, so I appreciated the exposure to new artists. I love the variety, and enjoyed nearly all of the stories. The book is a nice package, well designed. The only really strange thing about the book was that the editor included a short story that she wrote and got someone to illustrate for her. But it's really just prose with two illustrations (that don't even jive with the narrative). Misplaced...