Feminist comic books for kids
Is it too much to ask for… non-sexist pulp? An exciting story with heroes, villains, monsters, maybe some space ships and giant squids, and some non-irritating female characters?
Recommended Works
Suggested Works
- Go Girl by Trina Robbins
- PS 238 - An elementary school for children of superheroes
- The X-Men - Some of the specific runs, like Dark Phoenix.
- Young Justice - For kids
- Teen Titans
- JLA Unlimited
- Star Wars: Legend series (upcoming) by John Ostrander. "[A] lot of the characters are female and look reasonably authoritative and tough. In other words, there are female fighters and generals, and they’re not all drawn to look like they’re 17 with a Hollywood boob job."
- Movies & TV: "Batman cartoons are slightly less stupid and sexist than Superman ones, and the stories aren’t completely insipid."
- Neotopia
- Little Lit series, ed. Art Spiegelman
- Fables and Runways
- Yotsuba@!
- Corrector Yui
- Kamichama Karin
- Leave It To Chance by James Robinson
- Polly and the Pirates by Ted Naifeh
- Courtney Crumrin by Ted Naifeh
- Runaways - A group of teenagers; story not sexist; points for positive portrayals of gay characters. Story a little advanced for a 6-year-old.
- Franny K. Stein, mad scientist. Heavily illustrated but not a comic book & not a superhero
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds. Not quite a superhero, but she flies around on a cool glider and is a scientist with a laboratory and experiments, and is never helpless or captured.
- Akiko - comic book, but not a superhero. A great adventurer with friends.
- Young Avengers - points for positive portrayals of gay characters; geared for kids around 10yo
- Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
- Girl Genius: A Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance & Mad Science by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/