Kültürel Anlatılarda Amazon Kadını: Hareketli Bir Çizgi Roman Uygulaması

Abstract

Comics appealing to children and adults are created with male- dominated predominantly superheroes with infinite powers in an imaginary world. However, the rareness of female characters created in comics or creating them with objectification causes these female characters to become a product of popular culture. When the examples in the world are searched, it can be seen that there are aesthetically sexy and beautiful girls and women as super heroes and there is no comic practice created with characters embracing warrior and strong woman image in Turkey. For this reason, the scope of the thesis is restricted with “Amazon Women” based upon the female characters in Turkish culture. Besides, the thesis study in the context of “Fourth-Wave Feminism” occurring in today’s new feminist movements requires a sociological research due to the fact that a modern approach is addressed instead of a conventional insight in both the illustrations drawn and the scenario of the comic in the process of this practice. Consequently, a motion comic application with reference to cultural narrative myths based upon Amazon women encompassing strong female leaders is created in this study as opposed to the ones with primarily male characters and the ones keeping the female characters in the background. Therefore, this comic application is such as to support the creation of a motion comic composed of female characters with regard to the theoretical information.