May 2012
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Question
If you have questions, feel free to ask, anonymously or not. I will answer and publish them as long as they are not repeats or purposely offensive.
Please respond to the question if you have something to say. I’ll discuss things with you until I feel like we’re going in circles or until it gets rude. Feel free to reblog or ask a question to respond. (Or ask an initial question)
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Anonymous asked: I'm tublr-less - Aly. I have a problem with how you determined gender in this study and come to the conclusion of no trans*people in the webcomics. I have a friend - 'Gary'; now when 'Gary' was born he was assigned the gender 'female' and his parents called him - 'Amy'. He had quite a bit of trouble with puberty etc, and transitioned in the late...
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Anonymous asked: I'm not sure that a randomly-chosen hundred comics is the best method to determine what's actually on the web. In the event, you appear to have missed most of the real, live, updating, well-known and widely-followed web comics that _I read every week_. Statistics isn't a monolithic thing: not every project yields up its best information with the same instrument. In short: I think...
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a boatful of monsters and miracles: “I think... →
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“I think there’s a perception that making an effort to be inclusive means artlessly shoehorning a bunch of unnatural “politically correct” material from a master checklist handed down from the Office of the Liberal Elite.
First of all, the OLE doesn’t hand those out, you have to request them. Second, you don’t need the list anyway. Just stop going out of your way to do things like...
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Ladydrawers Tumblr
The tumblr I reference where all the information on webcomic creators is, is officially starting to post. If I remember right, it’s going to post once a day and there was a 15-30 post queue worked up, so stay tuned.
http://ladydrawers.tumblr.com/
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colintedford asked: I was excited to learn from your comics that Ladydrawers has a tumblr (I've seen them on the poorly-organized Truthout), but that tumblr looks empty. They list a wordpress address there, and that has content (nothing recent, though sidebar links to Truthout comics look up to date).
Anonymous asked: Considering that only about 5-15% of the American population is LGBTQPA, doesn't it make logical sense that the webcomics would have roughly the same proportion? After all, webcomics are a business and are designed to appeal to their audience--not their creator. Thus, regardless of the sexuality or gender of the creator the main focus would be on the audience.
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About the Study: Overview
This was a research project that looked over the 25 latest installments of 100 web comics and studied the characters that appeared within.
A character was defined as:
Named. A title used as a name was accepted. For example, Captain was considered a name. My captain was not.
Appeared in more than one installment.
Spoke.
The webcomics had to fit the following parameters:
Published exclusively...
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FAQ
What webcomics were included in the study?
You say there were no trans* characters, but how do you know that for sure? You can’t always tell by appearance.
Popular webcomics weren’t in this study.
The webcomics I read weren’t in the study.
I don’t think this was a representative sample of webcomics.
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Webcomics in the study
1. Non Adventures of Wonderella 2. Locus 3. Misfile 4. Love is in the Blood 5. Look Straight Ahead 6. Family Man 7. Unsounded 8. Widdershins 9. Demonfist 10. Sam and Fuzzy 11. Girl Genius 12. The Academy 13. The Meek 14. Gadget Hovel 15. The Dreamland Chronicles 16. Distillum 17. Goodbye Chains 18. Scandanavia and the World 19. Meaty Yogurt...
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About the Study: Gender
Gender was by far the easiest to discern in the study. Pronouns, appearance, and style of dress were all taken into account.
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About the Study: Sexuality
Sexuality in these comics were discovered however possible. Of the 624 characters in the study, only 225 had a sexuality in evidence. Sexuality of characters was discovered using the character pages that so many webcomics have, and the content of the comics. Any mention of sexuality was used as well as any romantic or sexual content shown.
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About the Study: Race
Race was the most difficult to discover, but it was done to the best of my ability. Most frequently, race was decided by skin color and the origin of the character’s name. Occasionally there were additional visual cues or contextual clues, but those rarely appeared. Because of this, sometimes race could be decided and sometimes ethnicity was what came up instead.
This is an...
