Girls with Big Books

Yesterday I wrote a post about webcomics and comics in general. I briefly mentioned xkcd, a webcomic that is extremely popular among nerdy people.

I want to pay special tribute to xkcd, because I think that Randall Munroe, who creates this minimalist stick-figure strip, has a great ability to think up the best in nerdy girls. The women in his comic are usually so intelligent and nerdy that they look rather sexy despite being nothing but a few simple black lines.

One of the nerdiest, sweetest, silliest, most romantic things I’ve ever seen

The one above depicts a girl who must be the most romantic geek ever, and one of my favorite fictional females. Original found here. 

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I have always loved reading typical newspaper comic strips. Unfortunately though, a lot of it them are pretty bad and unentertaining and, more relevant to this website, usually seriously lacking in any interesting female characters or creators.

Cathy, with her trademark explosive perspiration

One of the few cartoons created by a woman I saw in newspapers published around where I grew up was Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy. And that is a really bad strip. I have rarely found much humor in it, and most of the time it is concentrated on nothing but perpetuating stereotypes about how women care only about shopping, their own weight, food and weddings. Men, on the other hand, care about nothing other than technical gadgets. Women are of course not interested in those.
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