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With FanX approaching, women storytellers talk about the move toward equality in fandom

Salt Lake Tribune | April 14, 2019

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“I’ve never drawn female characters whose outfits are basically spaghetti on their bodies,” D’Errico said in a phone interview from Vancouver, B.C. “I’m too logical that way. … My characters wear clothing that is very functional.”

D’Errico is a painter and comic-book artist and writer who is part of a growing movement to expand “fan culture” — that space for superheroes, space aliens, vampires and other fantastical beings found in comic books and genre TV and movies — past the stereotype as a clubhouse for nerdy males.

(Photo courtesy of the author) Utah author M.K. Hutchins, whose works include the fantasy novel Drift, is one of the creators who will attend FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention in the Salt Palace, April 19-20, 2019.
(Photo courtesy of the author) Utah author Ali Cross, whose works include the Desolation book series and the Minnie Kim: Vampire Girl books, is one of the creators who will attend FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention in the Salt Palace, April 19-20, 2019.
(Photo courtesy of the artist) Canadian artist Camilla D'Errico, whose works include the comic book series Tanpopo and the HelmetGirls drawings, is one of the creators who will attend FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention in the Salt Palace, April 19-20, 2019.

And conventions, like the spring FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention that runs Friday and Saturday at the Salt Palace Convention Center, are where some of that expansion is happening.

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