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Comic book trend of the 1980s/90s
For information on bad girl art on movie posters, see Bad girl movies.
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Bad girl art is a superheroine artwork style trend that emerged during the 1990s.
History
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The term "bad girl art" was coined in the 1990s as an allusion – and contrast – to the "good girl art" movement that started in the 1940s, and is used to refer to the trend of femme fatale heroines that started in the early 1990s. The "bad girl" art trend was derived from the exaggerated visual styles of the male and female form first used in the late 80s by artists such as Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee. The precursors to the trend were Vampirella, created by Forrest J Ackerman and publisher James Warren in 1969, and Marvel Comics' Elektra, created by Frank Miller in 1981.
"Bad girl" characters dress in revealing costumes, possess shapely physiques, are morally ambiguous, wield supernatural powers or are of a supernatural nature, and have no compunction about killing their enemies.
^ Conroy, Mike (2004). 500 Great Comic Book Action Heroes. London: Collins & Brown. pp. 198–199. ISBN9781844110049.
^ Gabilliet, Jean-Paul; Beaty, Bart; Nguyen, Nick (2010). Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books (1st ed.). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 102–103. ISBN9781604732672.
Further reading
Lavin, Maud (March–April 1994). "What's So Bad About 'Bad Girl' Art?". Ms. Magazine. 4. Lang Communications: 80–83.
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