Feminists Love Y

Being a modern day gal I subscribe to a awesome feminist magazine called Bust. If you read my previous post about female characters in comics, you get an idea why I feel a bit conflicted at times defending my title of comic fan to some of the non-comic reading feminists out there. It can be a hard title to defend, with the typical person thinking women in comics = big racks and not much more. So with this in mind, imagine my surprise when my favorite feminist magazine has a feature on a comic book artist *gasp*!

Bust compiled a list of "Men We Love" for various reasons and various backgrounds. For example, they had Chuck D. and Spike Jonze and Dim Mak records owner Steve Aoki listed as some kick-ass guys for various reasons. Contained in one of these pages I found a feature on Brian K. Vaughn who is most known for his work on Y: The Last Man.

In the feature Brian K. Vaughn talks about scouring feminist literature to get an idea of why armies of women would want to fight the last man on earth. He either is, or came across as the sensitive gender equalist, which can be hard to do. While I have heard lots about the series (if you haven't you have been living under a rock), I was never totally inclined to pick it up. I now am willing to change my mind and am unashamed in saying that I will probably pick it up now (or borrow some of Dylan's). Does that make me a follower? Sure, why not.

Oh yeah, now that it's been optioned as a movie, it will be interesting to see how this story unfolds. A comic book based movie that women AND men will want to see? That would be history in the making.