I definitely feel you on this one, but i really like to think the industry as a whole is moving in the right direction, especially in the past couple years there have been a lot of great comics that are changing the paradigm. There are so many I’m going to miss when I make this list but, here are a few of my personal favorite comics that you may be interested in to get you started.
- Saga - Hugely popular. Great female characters. Alana is the best.
- Sex Criminals - Incredibly sex positive and hilarious and endearing and I wish Suzie was around to tell me about the birds & the bees when I was a kid.
- Pretty Deadly - Written by kellysue, drawn by steinerfrommars, colored by jordiecolorsthings - essentially the triumvirate of badass female creators. Pretty Deadly is beautiful and complex - art in every sense of the word.
- Ms. Marvel - Written by gwillow, edited by Sana Amanat - Starring Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenage girl from New Jersey. THE breakout Marvel comic of the year.
- Captain Marvel - Also written by kellysue - Carol Danvers is a fighter pilot, an Avenger, and who I want to be when I grow up.
- Love & Rockets - The quintessential indie comic. It features some of the most iconic female characters ever and is epic in every way.
- Rachel Rising - terrymooreart creates some of the most realistic and engrossing characters I’ve ever come across, and I’m absolutely in love with his art.
- Wet Moon - I just read this for the first time recently, but it focuses around a group of girls in college and has the feel of an amazing early 2000s indie movie.
- The Big Feminist BUT - Comics about Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism
- Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life - A long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece recalling the summer of 1984, when Ulli Lust, a rebellious, punked-out 17-year-old, hitchhiked her way across Italy.
- Lumberjanes - A kickass comic by kickass women (gingerhaze, ohheygrace & brookeallen) about kickass girls at a super spooky summer camp.
I could keep going for a while and it’s criminal the amazing comics I’m leaving off this list, but that’s a good start! I’m sure people out there have plenty suggestions of their own. Reblog this list with your additions!