Escher Girls

ami-angelwings:

A single panel comic created by York University students Jane Kim, Shayna Lauer, Helén Marton to raise awareness about sexual assault and combat victim blaming.
Article from the Toronto Star about it here.
This sounds like a good campaign, and taking a different tactic to raising awareness and getting people’s attention, hopefully people get the message and don’t just laugh it off.
I know the obvious point is “it would be ridiculous if Superman was blamed because he wore tights right? So why are we blaming rape victims by what they wore?” But, I think using Superman is also really powerful, because (besides the use of him in tights to send the message about clothing) it shows that no matter how physically powerful you are, or if you’re a man, you can still be assaulted. The clothing message is the obvious one, but by using a powerful superhero icon, there’s also the messages about not victim blaming people by speculating on if they could have fought back, or inventing ways of how they could have fought back (and therefore should have) or “but you’re so much bigger than them”, “why didn’t you try to escape?”, or that you must believe somebody has to be “weak” to be a victim of sexual assault (either claiming they must have wanted it because they’re not that “weak”, or insisting that they are because they were assaulted).
And if we can believe Superman can be assaulted, then maybe we can believe the non-powered people we meet IRL when they say so too.

I wanted to share this because it’s about superheroes, feminism and using superheroes to get a really important message out.

A single panel comic created by York University students Jane Kim, Shayna Lauer, Helén Marton to raise awareness about sexual assault and combat victim blaming.

Article from the Toronto Star about it here.

This sounds like a good campaign, and taking a different tactic to raising awareness and getting people’s attention, hopefully people get the message and don’t just laugh it off.

I know the obvious point is “it would be ridiculous if Superman was blamed because he wore tights right? So why are we blaming rape victims by what they wore?” But, I think using Superman is also really powerful, because (besides the use of him in tights to send the message about clothing) it shows that no matter how physically powerful you are, or if you’re a man, you can still be assaulted. The clothing message is the obvious one, but by using a powerful superhero icon, there’s also the messages about not victim blaming people by speculating on if they could have fought back, or inventing ways of how they could have fought back (and therefore should have) or “but you’re so much bigger than them”, “why didn’t you try to escape?”, or that you must believe somebody has to be “weak” to be a victim of sexual assault (either claiming they must have wanted it because they’re not that “weak”, or insisting that they are because they were assaulted).

And if we can believe Superman can be assaulted, then maybe we can believe the non-powered people we meet IRL when they say so too.

I wanted to share this because it’s about superheroes, feminism and using superheroes to get a really important message out.

Removed a picture and Ami has a personal tumblr now :)

Just a note that I removed the Fate CCC picture because it turned out it was fan art with the game overlay on top. I searched the picture when it was submitted to me and didn’t find evidence it was fan art and it looked like the screenshots of the rest of the game, so I didn’t know. Thanks to the people who pointed it out, and to the person who found the original picture link. :)

Also, for anybody interested, I finally have a personal tumblr! It’ll be just my own thoughts, reblogs, various activisty stuff, and also pictures that I found in the midst of my Escher Girls content hunting that don’t fit on Escher Girls but I want to share. (Like this one with Wolverine which is o_o)

Take care. :)

It looks like her left leg was just tacked haphazardly to the back of her right buttcheek to give us that oh so necessary boobs and butt. Also, there’s some serious static cling going on.

euniko submitted:

sexual superhero

LOL XD

Originally from Mundsen’s Bar (the comic has since been removed from the site for a reason I don’t know), and written by Martha Thomases and Valerie (D’Orazio) Gallagher, and drawn by Norm Breyfogle.

Sera submitted:

I think this is also from High school DxD. I don’t know if this is considered NSFW, but damn, this is really painful to look at.

In the morning rush, she forgot to put her body on straight.

deannambrigman:

A redraw I did as a warm up.

It is based on this piece I found on Escher Girls: http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/post/49873845579/time-traveling-waitress-submitted-i-saw-this-in

The main issue was the impossible pose, followed by the incorrect foreshortening.

Very cool, and menacing!

submitted by namidaaz

It’s like a superhero origin story… a lab accident leads to the creation of SWIVEL GIRL.

pointless-nonsense submitted:

Avengers #10. I opened the submit page here as soon as I saw Mike Deodato’s name in the credits, and I am not surprised at what I found.

It’s the long-lost daughter of camel girl and snake woman!

Wargoddessaur uses set square spine attack! It’s Super Effective!

How to Draw Comic Book Women the Rob Liefeld Way

By Tadja Dragoo who wanted to share a Liefeld parody walkthrough she made. :) Click on the link to see the full version complete with step by step instructions. (I had the pictures turned into an animated gif with her permission.)