Author Katy Rex

I Read Comics Like A Girl is your weekly article talking about female representation in comics and all the best female-fronted titles out in print. Representation means a lot of things. We talk about it a...

I Read Comics Like A Girl is your weekly article talking about female representation in comics and all the best female-fronted titles out in print. I’m riding a Mad Max high right now. It feels like...

I read comics like a girl. We’ve started this dialogue so many times. It’s so strange to be confronted with opposition when all you’re asking for is to be acknowledged. And it’s equally strange to...

This is not about a velociraptor's ability to learn how to open doors; this article is about celebrating the brilliance and ingenuity of girls in some of our favorite comics this week. There are a lot of...

This week, the female-fronted comics on my list are reminding me how exciting it was to be a little girl. In many ways it was hard, but it was fun and I was 90% energy and 10% excitement, and there's something...

This has been a rough week, especially for women in comics, but if this week has shown us anything, it's that the face of comics is changing. There will always be fans who are unhappy about any kind of change,...

One of the most astonishing and exciting things about the comics coming out this year is how different they are from one another. This is feasibly the most incredible variety the market has had available since...

Girls, this is our year. We are superheros, we are villains, we are femme fatales and we are awkward nerds and we are fierce warriors, all in the pages of our favorite comic books. We’re still getting a lot...

Since I was little, I've been here for girls. Maybe it was because my neighborhood was largely little boys, and when we played together they wouldn't let me be a boy character-- and that's when it became clear...

Demo is a classic series from 2003-2004, an early collaboration between creators Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan. It is a series of single-issue vignettes with a unifying theme: feeling out of place, for one...