5/23/2023 0 Comments Kami garcia graphic novels![]() ![]() “So if you’re interested in speculative fiction and fantasy, but you don’t want it to be all, that joke of, ‘She boobed boobily down the stairs where her boobs looked around the corner first…’ If you want to get a type of fantasy that is not going to be misogynistic, it’s going to have progressive values, and is also going to be told in a very immediate sort of style, YA became the home for that.” ![]() They started out as teens and now they are turning into adults, but to me, it’s because young adult prose fiction is a bastion of a progressive kind of storytelling,” Stiefvater tells BUST. So, why do more women read YA? For Swamp Thing: Twin Branches author Maggie Stiefvater, it is because of the overall inclusivity of YA. In fact, according to a Pew study, women read more than men overall. YA fiction has always had a strong readership of girls and women. Many of the authors come from the YA genre. The imprint is, by creation, inclusive: most of the editors, artists, and all of the writers are women. ![]() One imprint that has been incredibly successful in attracting female readership and providing more writing jobs to women in graphic novels is DC’s imprint geared towards YA audiences, aptly titled DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults. ![]()
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