The idea of taking book covers with women in impossible poses and reproducing them with men trying to emulate them isn’t new – Jim Hines has been doing it as a fundraiser and whipping in fellow Sci-fi/fantasy authors to help him in the ensemble pieces – but I do like the idea of redrawing comic books with Hawkeye in the place of the distorted females.
Just cast an eye over the Hawkeye Initiative and join me in having a giggle.
These are genius, and helped me to articulate why I went with independent publishing for my own work: absolute artistic control, no white-washing, no pin-up girl treatment for my (female) action heroes… the list goes on. Thanks for writing about this!