Stereotypes In Comic Book

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The main strengths that are prominent within this article would definitely be the in-depth interviews and scripts from six women who were in the comic book industry during the timeframe of 1970s to 2000. To have those hands on sources makes the article more personable for the readers, especially the readers who are women. Instead of having speculations on how the women may have been treated within the industry and also how their work was look upon, having in person interview makes the sources a little more concrete. Also, in the sources involving the scripts as stated before, it shows that even though society sees the comic book industry as a mostly male-dominated industry, by using these scripts it shows that there were women who were writing …show more content…

The main limitation is the lack of resources pertaining to this topic of women in the comic book industry. Most of the article that have women and comics in the same sentence are talking about women character in the comic books and how they are either extremely over sexualized or a lack of women in comic in general. This may be a problem because there would not be a lot of sources to back up the claims in which the author is stating. However, saying that this is why the interviews are very important, because not only are they credible sources but they also could be the first core evidence for more people to use and make the topic grow bigger.
The article as a whole is pretty strong in the sense that throughout the article the author back up his claims and arguments with credible sources. Also there is a coherent theme within the entirety of the paper, it does not deviant from the topic at hand. There is a clear point that the author is attempting to make, and he makes it pretty clearly thru his writings. There may be some limitations in the paper besides the fact that there are not a lot of articles pertaining to women in the comic book industry, but none of them came up during the first reading of the

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