Hips Don’t Lie: The Problem With Hips (A Series)
The comic industry has serious issues with women’s hips. Of all the parts of the anatomy that comic artists get wrong, this one is the big one. It’s huge. I am honestly hugely impressed if I see a female comic character with normal looking hips that could hold shit, and a waist that isn’t thinner than the thickest part of her thigh. All of them do it, and it’s frustrating because some of those artists are really fucking good (I’m talking to you, Adam Hughes).
Here’s the low-down on women’s hips: They hold shit. Intestines, liver, kidneys, a few bits and bobs and sometimes, if one is so inclined, babbies:
See, those organs there? They’re kind of VITAL to our survival. When artists draw a woman who cannot hold her own damned organs, it’s kind of saying “We think that drawing a woman’s sexual appeal is more important than giving her the space and shape of a woman with all her internal organs.” Basically, to boil it down: “My hard-on is more important than your humanity.”
The worst is that a lot of these so-called styles are filled with basic rookie mistakes. This is first-year art school shit, guys! Get your head in the game! I’ll break it down to some basic fuck-ups that I spot, again and again, in the vain hope that some bastard will listen.
I’ll be publishing a post for the next few days with categorised mistakes, and how they can be fixed. So stay tuned and come see me rip the shit out of some very big names, yo.
The Mistakes List (Post by Post)
Even if you don’t feel the same way this person does about comics, this is still a an awesome resource!
