Girls with Big Books

I know that I’ve been writing a lot about xkcd lately, but I felt the need for one more post about it.

One of my favorite girls from the comic that I haven’t mentioned yet is Joanna, the girl with the EMP-cannon in the strip “Pix Plz”. Sometimes I feel that we need girls like her in real life, to handle the obnoxious Internet-goers, and make the Internet more welcoming to female nerds.

So, in tribute to her and to xkcd I tried to draw some fan art depicting Joanna. I’m really not good at drawing, but I thought that if I start posting a few things I draw, it might make me practice and get better.

Joanna

And why is she wearing goggles, you might ask? Well, of course it is because she’s a blogger! She is making a fashion statement and foregoes the classical red cape though.

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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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