Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy Book Announced

The original Star Wars trilogy (and even the prequels) have been criticized before for not having enough representation for women, but ever since The Force Awakens in 2015, we've been seeing some great female characters in the form of Rey, Jyn Erso, and Qi'Ra. Now Lucasfilm has announced a book celebrating the Women of the Galaxy.

Check out the cover:

Source: StarWars.com

Here's also an official description:

The women of the Star Wars universe are a diverse galaxy of heroes and villains, renegades and rogues, caretakers and, sometimes, unscrupulous scum.

Now StarWars.com is thrilled to exclusively announce a new book from Chronicle Books that celebrates this eclectic mix of female characters from the films, cartoons, novels, comics, and video games — Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy by Star Wars fan and journalist Amy Ratcliffe, arriving October 2018 in hardcover.

Featuring Leia Organa, Rey, Ahsoka Tano, Jyn Erso, Rose Tico, Maz Kanata, and many more — including characters from Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Resistance — the book gathers 75 profiles with text by Ratcliffe and all-new, incredible artwork from 18 talented female and non-binary artists. The amazing lineup of illustrators includes Alice X. Zhang, Amy Beth Christenson, Annie Stoll, Annie Wu, Christina Chung, Cryssy Cheung, Eli Baum, Elsa Charretier, Geneva B., Jen Aberin Johnson, Jen Bartel, Jenny Parks, Karen Hallion, Little Corvus, Sara Alfageeh, Sara Kipin, Sarah Wilkinson, and Viviane Tanner.

It's worth noting that the book will include artwork from the upcoming animated series, Star Wars Resistance. We don't have a look at any characters on the show yet, but hopefully this means we'll get some reveals before the book's release this coming October.

Lucasfilm has recently been getting some flak from angry fanboys about the newer Star Wars movies having an SJW agenda, but considering how there were barely any women in the original trilogy, I think it's fine that they are trying to even things out.

Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy comes out this October.

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