tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post6475984266319379171..comments2024-03-28T05:18:44.880-07:00Comments on comic bits online: Hypocrites of the Comic World United.....Terry Hooper-Scharfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-79751639921225632142014-08-26T06:29:22.882-07:002014-08-26T06:29:22.882-07:00I think I'm gonna be sick...I think I'm gonna be sick...Stranskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230455896573020104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-1233429611656960032014-08-25T12:43:30.667-07:002014-08-25T12:43:30.667-07:00Pansy Potter - go for it, I'm laughing already...Pansy Potter - go for it, I'm laughing already!TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-23514728610547751612014-08-25T06:37:00.597-07:002014-08-25T06:37:00.597-07:00I am NOW resisting drawing that Pansy Potter cover...I am NOW resisting drawing that Pansy Potter cover!!!!!!!!!Terry Hooper-Scharfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-6238402247335331542014-08-25T06:35:30.355-07:002014-08-25T06:35:30.355-07:00Hi,Steve. Yes, my point was that the comic fan and...Hi,Steve. Yes, my point was that the comic fan and blog community is loaded to the point of bursting with images far more "sexualised" than that Manara cover. Fan art -a fair bit by female artists as well as male are far more explicit than Manara's. The images themselves have had THOUSANDS of hits so are far more widely seen than the Manara one. When I mentioned this on Google+ yesterday several bloggers said "I didn't know Manara had done a Spider-Woman cover!" Which was followed by "Cool" "Wow-hot!" and so on. So it seems a little too staged a cover leak if all these Marvel fans had not seen/heard of it. Putting it in perspective: when I was a kid in Germany I saw my first female booby in a soap commercial. We used to -in very hot weather- splash around in the stream with nothing on. BUT when I got back to the UK I could not believe the repression (and I was only a kid!). "Sex sells" and the companies know it and the fans buy it. However, I would never ever use any "sexy image" to sell a book. A good eye-catching cover and good interiors. I'm sorry but I just broke out giggling imagining a similar cover featuring Pansy Potter -maybe Thomson needs to contact Manara -think of the press response in the UK and the fortune in free publicity!!!Terry Hooper-Scharfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-84874444804498622812014-08-25T05:15:36.208-07:002014-08-25T05:15:36.208-07:00I think part of the fuss is that it's a cover ...I think part of the fuss is that it's a cover image, albeit a variant. I don't think any of these images are from covers, and therefore less likely to be widely seen and cause offence - however valid anyone believes that offence to be. To me, any image by Manara will tick certain boxes and his spider-Woman cover says more about Matvel's publishing and marketing strategies than anything else. Steve Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03230447828296763938noreply@blogger.com