With things like Gamer Gate and “Fake Geek Girls” still fresh on the table, Sequart’s She Makes Comics is coming at a pivotal moment in the wider fan culture. Though Marisa Stotter’s documentary focuses on women in the comic book industry, there are similar struggles present throughout a wide variety of fandom and thus it's critical that it gets talked about in this manner. While She Makes Comics isn’t the defining piece of work to catalogue the importance of women in comics, it does plant a flag in the ground to let everyone know that things are, thankfully, changing.
Clocking in at only an hour and 10 minutes, She Makes Comics takes on the ambitious task of starting at the beginning. The film points out that women have always worked in comics, starting with the earliest of female newspaper cartoonists, through mainstream Silver Age artists like Ramona Fradon and Marie Severin, through the rise of figureheads like Jenette Kahn and Karen Berger, all the way up until the present with writers like Gail Simone and Kelly Sue DeConnick.
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