Bitch rant whine

[secondlina]

Everybody I know is drawing pretty girls. I want to draw pretty girls too! PB and Marcelline for you all!

I saw this article quite recently, about someone being encouraged by an agent to eliminate the gay characters of her book so she can get them published. The agent even had the gull of telling her “if the book was very popular and sequels were demanded, (the character) could be revealed to be gay in later books, when readers were already invested in the series.”

WHAT.

Gay couples are not marketing ploys. They are not writing anomalies. Support homosexual literature, fanart and comics by writing, drawing, and publishing online and offline as much as possible. We do not back down.

In other annoying news, I am SO SO SO very tired of people that come up to us in the bookstore, ask us for advice on which comics to buy for their kids (while the kid is right there), have us pull out something that makes the kid happy and then have the parents check out the price and go "THIS MUCH for a comic? Something you'll read in two hours? We'll go get you a REAL book."

Or better yet "Manga is all boobs and violence."

Or my favorite "You should be ashamed of yourself, a fine lady like yourself reading comics. Honestly. Don't you want to get married and be a good wife?"

(Yeah, that last one is totally what the fuck).

OH WELL. Tomorrow is the Comiccon. That should help.

- Isa 

Comments

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I saw that article over at the sounis community. It's so stupid, gay teens should be able to find characters they can relate to as well. Not to mention the fact that it's a good way to show straight teens that there's nothing wrong with being gay. GRR!

Also, those customer quotes. *bangs head against wall* I get some customers like that when asking on what crafts they should get for their kid. I remember one guy complaining about the price of markers and decided to just go to the dollar store.