Beginning in the 1980s, illustrators (largely male) began depicting superheroes, both male and female, with exaggerated sexual characteristics. Males, for example, were often drawn as having muscular, thick necks with comparatively smaller heads. Females were given long legs and large breasts and were often scantily clad to show off these characteristics (Robbins, 2002). As McGrath (2007) pointed out, superheroes were also given form-fitting outfits that accentuate the body. Perhaps part of this can be explained by looking at those who create the comics. Men continue to be responsible for comics (e.g., writers, artists, editors) and continue to outnumber women as characters. There are, however, beginning to be female comic writers who challenge and push against these norms by using their own stories and art to move in from the margins (Allison, 2014). It is also important to note a lack of scholarship in this area. Stabile (2009), for example, argued that many comic superheroes include overt sexism. Aside from this, few scholars have examined the relationships between gender in comic characters and power, sexuality, and so forth (Austin, 2015).