Long posts, recommendations of gender-sensitive superhero comics for kids/teens, suicide mention
I grew up with Marvel superhero comics, felt Sue Storm‘s empowerment when she took on the name of Invisible Woman (instead of Girl), and cried when Jean Grey took her own life.
Yet when asked to recommend interesting and fun superhero comics for children and teenager, I had a hard time coming up with material that wasn‘t exclusively written by and about masculine, hetero, white and able-bodied men.
Long posts, recommendations of gender-sensitive superhero comics for kids/teens
*Until* I met superhero enthusiast and expert Dr. Carolyn Cocca, who had a talk at the annual meeting of the German society for Comics Studies in Cologne last fall.
She came up with this incredible impromptu list of socially conscious, kid-friendly superhero comics, and after having asked for her permission, I would like to share it with everyone interested in the following toots.
