“Just go write your own comics” + “cheesecake sells” = PROFIT. So why aren’t more men making more comics about SuperCleavageEndowedG-String Girl?
I have been told that cheesecake sells, and the promotion of sexualised women is a financially viable commodity. I usually disagree with this point, but, assuming that this is correct, and cheesecake is a financial viable medium, why don’t more men produce their own comics? The word is that there’s a market for it. I’ve heard comic book bloggers and forum members say there’s a need for it. It’s been said to be profitable. Why don’t more men show the Tony Stark sort of entrepreneurial get go to get their own slice of the (American) pie?
Competition, reduction of competition, and a market opening
If you’re into comic books for the breasts and dollars, would it not become in your interest for Marvel and DC to be moved out this arena? You could motivate yourself with a burning dissatisfaction about the smallness of PowerGirl’s breasts by creating your own comics where you would be able to provide a commercially viable product for the market that seeks hand drawn women, drawn by men (and women), for other men (and women), in male pleasing sexualised poses.
You’d be able to make your Powergirl’s breasts as big as you pleased. Plus! With an upsurge in non sexualised comics, Marvel and DC would have taken those annoying comic book fans who want art and story and characterisation and all of those other problematic elements that relegate breasts to second place out of your way, and left you with a massively profitable market of men and women who just want sexualised content.
So, for the male gaze crew who promote the incorporation of sexualised women in mainstream comics, why not go make your own comics?
I’m told it’s profitable, right?