tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post3895274294484481117..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1470: Kid Eternity and the Land of Amazons and wimpy menPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-24643619063829606422013-11-12T09:25:20.336-08:002013-11-12T09:25:20.336-08:00Brian, Daniel, my feeling is that Bryant was proba...Brian, Daniel, my feeling is that Bryant was probably drawing the women to look mannish, to make the males in the story that much more wimpy.<br />Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-91743614098713431802013-11-12T03:38:02.991-08:002013-11-12T03:38:02.991-08:00Mr Barnes—
I would agree that these women are not...<a href="/profile/15737535617796413548" rel="nofollow">Mr Barnes</a>—<br /><br />I would agree that these women are not well drawn, but I assure you that <a href="https://lh3.ggpht.com/-j5LNMs9auJo/ToiIx78Ml5I/AAAAAAAAWQU/92123lJq1Ys/s1600/National%2B28-30.jpg" rel="nofollow">Al Bryant was <em>capable</em> of much better</a>.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-52040664022867978682013-11-11T11:03:57.179-08:002013-11-11T11:03:57.179-08:00The great irony of this story was that the artist ...The great irony of this story was that the artist was pretty poor at drawing women; the women in the story looked like men!<br /><br />There is one other important lesson here -- nothing reverses a culture's decades of sexism like somebody you treated like a slave getting shot. I mean, that works, right?<br /><br />I'd love to have been a writer in the 40s. I'd constantly put up stories where some strong female went to 1940s New York and reversed the power structure, and the minute it happened, all the men go "it's so much better this way!" I don't think I'd get hired!Brian Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-60534431904341094602013-11-11T03:12:24.234-08:002013-11-11T03:12:24.234-08:00Al Bryant could do some wonderful work, …but this ...Al Bryant could do some wonderful work, …but this isn't it. I don't think that he was slacking; I think that he was trying to stick to the established style for this character. But it seems like a waste.<br /><br />At least this story doesn't fall to the level of chauvinism at which <a href="http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2012/12/number-1276-its-womans-world.html" rel="nofollow">“It’s a Woman’s World”</a> ended. Kid Eternity in fact summons a woman, Carry Nation, to smite a thug, though Kid could have summoned a man for that task. And Carry Nation tells the reader that Matilda's desire to be directed by a man is transitory.<br /><br />Unfortunately, Bryant didn't avail himself of a photo-reference for Ms Nation. <a href="http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/n/nation/images/large/028866square.jpg" rel="nofollow">Her appearance when young would have readily lent itself to comic-book depiction</a>, and <a href="http://indieopera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CarrieNation.jpg" rel="nofollow">in her later years, she looked like a stage caricature</a>.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com