My wife and I finally have the chance to do that we haven’t done since our son was born, take a whole week off and do things together as a family. During this week (Sunday the 11th through Friday the 16th), I’ll be posting awesome guest art and comics from other cool artists (not meaning that I think I’m cool or anything like that) whose work I admire and would love to share with you.
Today’s lovely guest art is by the wonderful Terry Blauer, co-creator of the comic Godseeker. Please check out her comic and say “Howdy” while you’re there!
BA-DA-BOOM !
Wow…. Curves!
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oy vey ist mir….
Uh, yeah. Wow.
You know, I never thought anyone could come so close to a “real Monica” outside of Pablo…
…inside of Pablo it’s too dark to tell.
Ba-dum-tish.
But the tattoo doesn’t work anymore!
swoon
Oh my…
Huh. This is NICE. I like the comparison between the form of the fertility goddess statue in Monica’s hand, and her own *ahem* generous figure.
I think that’s one of Shelly’s dolls – the one that represented Monica.
Actually, it’s a representation of the goddess statue from her comic “Godseeker”. Check it out, it’s pretty good.
finally…a cartoon with a real shape! Now thats real
Hot damn…
Best drawing by a guest artist. This drawing looks as if it was drawn from an individual. Can I get a date?
She seein’ anybody?
OMG, she looks just like my ex-wife!! (4′-11″ @135 lbs)
(Except for the hair which wasn’t that long, and this girl doesn’t have horns, fangs or a pitchfork. . .or so it seemed at the time)
easy…
Hubba-hubba! Now do Phix!
No. I’ll do Phix—(gets yanked off stage none too gently…)
Huh, She looks kind of chubby compared to her normal depiction in the comic strip.
Tough to disagree, but I’m not sure “chubby” is really the right word.
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Curvy Monica….I approve.
very nice
Nonetheless, I will be so glad when Paul gets back!
You can say that again.
That house has gables, almost victorian.
Hooo golly. Me like!
It’s nice work, but I thought one of the key points of Monica was that the rest of her body didn’t match her breasts. I’m not gonna lie, this depiction of her kind of irritates me- even as a cello shaped kind of gal, I’m tired of “real women” heavily implying that thin women, and thin women with disproportional breasts aren’t real themselves.
Well, I admit, I just really like drawing hips. This has nothing to do with that absurd “real woman” bullshit thats been floating around these past several years. As a living stick person those ads annoy the crap out of me! I’m 26 for craps sake, if I’m not a “real woman” what the hell am I? Someones imaginary friend?? Such bull.
Nope, I’m afraid this is just a product of my personal enjoyment of drawing hips. She is still pretty dang thin for her cup size- but she’s got the same waist/breat size as one of my poor co-workers who always got the exact same kind of guff as our Monica does.
“Oh no, I’m thin! Society at large thinks I’m more desirable than curvy women! There’s no room in my wallet for all my $100 bills and my diamond shoes are too tight!!”
OK, sorry for snapping like that, but it needs to be said: The “real woman ‘bullshit’” isn’t about making naturally thin women feel bad for being thin – it’s about making curvy women feel good for being curvy. Women & girls – not all, obviously, but a few – are developing eating disorders because they’re convinced that skinny equals sexy, but curvy equals ugly. That’s the message that the “real woman” campaigns are trying to counteract.
Ahhh, I getcha.
I agree, that’s the message they should be going for, but that’s not the message most people get. I don’t like being defined as not a “real woman” because I don’t have “curves”. Womanhood is not based on ones figure- by being thin or being curvy. I am staunchly against ANY campaign that defines womanhood based on physical appearance. That includes cosmopolitan magazine, 17 magazine, and the statement that “real women” have curves. If the “real women have curves” campaign really advocated that women can and should come in all shapes and sizes I would be all for it. Sadly, that’s not how it’s gone.
I’d like to point out, the heroin of my webcomic is a decidedly curvy woman. I’m all for showing that women of all kinds of sizes are healthy and attractive. But any campaign that brings one group up by attacking another is not cool in my book.
But no group is being attacked, and thin women are not being told that they are not “real.” And I’m sure the campaign DOES advocate that real women come in all shapes & sizes, but the focus is on curves because so many women are starving themselves to death.
Au contraire. Look- from Sir Mixalot’s quote against ‘Bean-pole dames in the magazines’ to ANTM’s season ten winner Whitney Thompson’s quote in Seventeen magazine, which (and I’m paraphrasing) said that most models wouldn’t be considered attractive in the South because they were so thin that they looked like little boys- thin women have been disparaged as whiny pathetic under-eaters who aren’t beautiful, healthy or strong inside or out.
Now, I think the argument here is that you are thinking of the ‘Campaign for Real Beauty‘ being put on by Dove, which does indeed spotlight women of all sizes ages and colors. Terry is using the word “campaign” in the more general and not ad-specific context to refer to the trend of curvier chicks moving past the point of seeing themselves as healthy and equally beautiful to thinking that they’re actually superior to their thinner counterparts. Real Women Have Curves is the actual title of a movie starring America Ferrera- think about how that sounds from the perspective of a woman not thusly endowed.
I’m all for women (and men) not starving, drugging, and puking themselves skinny just because they think that’s what people want. But I’m also against women padding their bras and using products like the “Booty Pop” to give themselves curves they don’t have because people don’t think they’re feminine enough since their metabolisms work overtime. Not all thin women are swimming in “diamond shoes” by the way. I’ve known black girls on wellfare who were naturally thin and hated the slender legs and smaller hips that a lot of women envy because our culture dictates that women be ‘thicker’. My mom actually tells all of my smaller friends that they need “to eat some pork chops” even though she’s aware that I have to go behind her back and apologize profuseley for her making them feel inferior yet again.
Real beauty and femininity doesn’t come from your measurements. That’s what everyone needs to wake up to.
Yes, the Dove campaign is precisely what I was thinking of, because I thought that’s what Terry was talking about. Apologies for the confusion.
But it still seems to me that thin people (of both genders) are practically revered as gods in society/media/culture/etc, compared to the treatment heavier people get. The fat guy is never the hero, never wins the fight & never gets the girl. If any of those events do happen, the fat guy still has some flaw – clumsy, socially awkward, dull-witted or what-have-you – that prevents other guys from wishing they were him. It’s inevitable & invariable.
It seems we’re looking at the same issue from opposite ends of a spectrum, preventing any accord. Can we just agree to disagree?
What? No! I insist you argue about this with me for at least the next six months! How dare you try to act like a reasonable adult and come to an acceptable compromise?
Fight me! FIGHT ME!
Nah, just kiddin’. A truce then. But I do agree with you on the point of larger men. I never did really think about it, but yeah, there are dozens of fat female heroines that get critical acclaim for not being thin, no such luck on the guys’ end. Even with the ‘fat man, hot wife’ trend in sitcoms, the male half of that couple is always the loveable screwup…wow.
Thanks for arguing your point courteously, and for offering me another perspective…/subject for a thesis…maybe.
No trouble at all; thank you for the same courtesy, and for giving me some new things to think about too.
So THATS what Monica looks like in ‘real’ style-sweeeet
For some reason, I’m suddenly thinking of CotC. (That is meant as a compliment.)
Hey, now that’s my figure! Or, it is when I’m about five pounds lighter…