Irish artists are putting females in the comic frames

So you thought comic books were dominated by muscle-bound men? There Irish artists will make you think again, writes Don O’Mahony

THE most recent comic book movie to arrive at cinemas is The Diary of a Teenage Girl, an adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s semi autobiographical hybrid graphic novel. A subplot to the tale of teenage sexual awakening concerns the protagonist Minnie Goetze’s aspiration to make comics like her underground comic hero Aline Kominsky. In one entry Minnie relates how she received a postcard from Kominsky.

“She said she never got a letter from a girl before, just from greasy fan-boys who think she’s cute. Now I feel even more inspired to draw,” she gushes.