Escher Girls

Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF?

This is a blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, such as how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and/or sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous, impossible or disturbing ways that sacrifice storytelling.

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two photos of a ferret sleeping with body twisted at 90 degree angles

"Eschergirls are ferrets"

disposabledolls submitted:

eschergirls are ferrets

I immediately thought of you when I saw this. You probably see worse every day though.

redraw of swords of sorrow cover with red sonya having full chain mail and vampirella having a more classic dracula look, and less bendy bodies

Redraw: Swords of Sorrow

jones-wannabe submitted:

cover of spanish language comic magazine dibujarte, a pink haired man in a blue trenchcoat is standing back to back with a red head woman in a green tight top and pants, the perspective is looking up at them and she is swiveling for us to see both her butt and breasts

Admire your snake goddess!

prince-kraehe submitted:

So, there’s this Mexican drawing magazine, “DibujArte”.

That’s actually pretty nice.

panel of squirrel girl attacking Wolverine in a realistic art-style with Squirrel girl's back bent at almost 90 degrees at her ribs, her butt sticking out behind her

S for Squirrel and fighting position

foreveranonymousfa submitted:

ad for winx club game with bloom standing sideways, her face facing us, her body is snakelike and bent under her breasts

Winx Club, now accepting snakes

Submitted by danacita

If wishes were horses, fairies would be centaurs I guess?

(Submitted as promotional picture in an article in Spanish about a Winx Club video game)

photo of Grimm Fairy Tales comic cover with a black haired woman and a white haired woman facing opposite directions and waving their hands, both are wearing cleavage exposing outfits, with cinched in waists and round floating breasts, the leg of the black haired woman is bending like plasticine

Snow White and the 4 balloons

khantrapositive submitted:

Her legs are made of taffy! TAFFY!

Snow White except it was a cursed caramel apple so it turned her into a taffy girl

Comic panel with ninja girl with long black hair crouching next to a fence, her far leg appears detached from her hip

I think there's going to be an opening for a new executive assistant soon

The dangers inherent in carrying her sword like that are evidenced by it apparently having cut off her leg. Also, she's going to be leaving fingerprints all over the crime scene.

(Panel from Executive Assistant Iris Vol. 1, Aspen Comics)