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A Marvel Women's History Lesson, Part 2
Thoughts and reflections on the state of females in comics over the last decade and into today
Posted Apr 1, 2011 3:40 pm
Updated Apr 1, 2011 4:07 pm
By Valerie D’Orazio
More Than Just “Girl Power”
I’m starting this article with an anecdote from my own experience writing for Marvel Comics. When Associate Editor Jeanine Schaefer asked me to contribute a story to GIRL COMICS—a 2010 anthology featuring an all-female creative and editorial team—I really wracked my brain trying to come up with what I felt was a story “appropriate” for that type of publication. I decided it should star a plucky female super hero in an inspiring tale illustrating “Girl Power”; I assumed that was what was expected of me.