Kevin Bolk has brilliantly subjected the male Avengers to kind of 'gaze' normally trained on their female counterparts. It's a very different picture
Check this out – it's both hilarious and brilliantly disturbing - artist Kevin Bolk's re-imagining of The Avengers, with the male superheroes depicted in the way female superheroes are usually drawn.
Bolt was prompted to draw the parody after seeing the promotional image for the new Avengers movie, writing a couple of months ago that it "would be awesome if only Black Widow wasn't in a ridiculous and impractical 'look at my ass' pose. It just seems unfair that everyone else gets to be heroic and she's just 'Ohai! Pin-Up!'"
Now it's the Hulk and his male friends who are arse-forwards, in an image which really does, as Tom Davenport puts it, highlight the "sexism in comic culture".
I'm with io9, who are hoping that "Bolk and...
Check this out – it's both hilarious and brilliantly disturbing - artist Kevin Bolk's re-imagining of The Avengers, with the male superheroes depicted in the way female superheroes are usually drawn.
Bolt was prompted to draw the parody after seeing the promotional image for the new Avengers movie, writing a couple of months ago that it "would be awesome if only Black Widow wasn't in a ridiculous and impractical 'look at my ass' pose. It just seems unfair that everyone else gets to be heroic and she's just 'Ohai! Pin-Up!'"
Now it's the Hulk and his male friends who are arse-forwards, in an image which really does, as Tom Davenport puts it, highlight the "sexism in comic culture".
I'm with io9, who are hoping that "Bolk and...
- 11/30/2011
- by Alison Flood
- The Guardian - Film News
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