Escher Girls is fabulous. I have a love/hate relationship with comics; because on one hand, juxtaposed sequential visual art about ass-kicking individuals. On the other hand, softcore porn. No issues with porn, but that's not what I'm reading comics for. Somehow it makes comics easier to stomach, knowing that I'm not the only one calling shenanigans.
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| I find your armor both functional and tasteful! |
There have been
quite a
few articles recently addressing this issue, all of them enlightening in different ways, and the comment sections enlightening in quite a different way.
And with all of this talk of
broken spines, I can't help but be reminded of the nymph with the broken back.
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Aw, did you fall out of your tree?
Daniel Tixier |
The "
nymph with the broken back" refers to a sub-genre of art, most from the
1800's and early 1900's where naked women are contorted like they have a broken back; usually on the ground, or occasionally floating. They were almost
always specified as "nymphs" (i.e. the
super sexiest), and sometimes the artist
actually indicated that they had broken backs.
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Don't mind me, just napping naked on the road.
Georges Callot |
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| Jules Garnier |
While I don't think the similarities extend very far (the nymphs' broken back is teh sex because vulnerability, whereas the broken back of comic book fame is willful anatomy negligence), it does intrigue. Sexually idealized women with broken backs is kind of specific, and it's interesting that it's spawned twice.
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Ol' floppy head.
Paul Albert Laurens |
I wonder if people back in the day recognized how goofy as hell these look.
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Probably not.
Marvel |
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