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hamleto-cchi:Kodansha Trailer Looks Ahead To “Attack On Titan”...

hamleto-cchi:

Kodansha Trailer Looks Ahead To “Attack On Titan” Comic Anthology Collection of original on sale 10.18.2016

Coming next month, Kodansha will be presenting Attack on Titan Anthology, the new collaboration between Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama and an all-star roster of Western comics creators, including a variety ranging from Scott Snyder (Batman) and Gail Simone (Birds of Prey) to Kate Leth (Kate or Die!) and Ronald Wimberly (Prince of Cats). With it now available for order, they’ve posted a promo trailer.

Contributors include:
   •   Eisner Award winner Scott Snyder (Batman)
   •   Eisner Award winner Michael Avon Oeming (Powers)
   •   Eisner Award winner Faith Erin Hicks (The Adventures of Superhero Girl)
   •   Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr (The team behind the new Batgirl)
   •   Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Batgirl)
   •   Eisner Award winner Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese, Dork)
   •   Crawford Award winner Genevieve Valentine (Catwoman)
   •   Top Cow Pilot winner Afua Richardson (Genius)
   •   Eisner Award nominees Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka (The Divine)
   •   Eisner Award winner Paolo Rivera (Mythos)
   •   Eisner Award nominee Phil Jimenez (The Invisibles, Infinite Crisis)
   •   Damion Scott (Ghost Rider)
   •   Eisner Award nominee Ronald Wimberly (Prince of Cats)
   •   Kevin Wada (The Wicked + The Divine)
   •   Eisner Award nominee Simon Spurrier (Judge Dredd)
   •   Writers Guild of America Award winner Rhianna Pratchett (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
   •   Jody Houser (Orphan Black)
   •   Eisner Award nominee Emi Lenox (Plutona)

Oct 2016 | 256 pages

A 32 page sampler can be read here.

biggoonie:Clean Room #15 by Jenny FrisonCLEAN ROOM...

biggoonie:

Clean Room #15 by Jenny Frison

CLEAN ROOM #15

Written by GAIL SIMONE
Art by SANYA ANWAR
Cover by JENNY FRISON
A young woman devastated by the violent loss of her husband finds comfort in Astrid Mueller’s teachings, only to face the woman herself in the most nightmarish reaches of the Clean Room!
On sale DECEMBER 28 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • MATURE READERS

nguyeningit:Daily doodle: #BlackCanary #cosplay #allsorts...

nguyeningit:

Daily doodle: #BlackCanary #cosplay #allsorts #allshapes #allsizes 

Yesterday Rose City Comic-Con’s Twitter shared a story from Gail Simone that just goes to show how the saying, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it all” has been slowly fading from our culture.

This is so damn fantastic.

bittervenezuelan:Gail Simone giving me the good shit on...

bittervenezuelan:

Gail Simone giving me the good shit on twitter

heroesandcomics:⚡️COMICS: VERTIGO Comics’ Clean Room...

heroesandcomics:

⚡️COMICS: VERTIGO Comics’ Clean Room #5!

Writer: Gail Simone 

Cover: Jenny Frison 

Animated by Brad Backofen.

This is so creepy and cool!

Hi Gail! I know you don't do direct quotes for college/uni papers and such, but is it okay for us to use some previous quotes in our assignments? You've said some amazing things about both feminism and sexism in the superhero genre and I would very much ju

Absolutely fine!

hi gail, i just wanted to let you know that your issue of batgirl where poison ivy has SAD continues to mean a lot to me. Ivy is my favorite character, and while I don't have SAD, i do have frequent stretches of apathy that sorta punch me in the face. I a

Thank you!

I am very proud of that story. Ign.com voted it the single best issue of any comic that year, which is pretty nice.

Ivy is a character I didn’t really get growing up, I didn’t really understand her very well. But I started thinking of her as someone who the whole world is trying to re-shape and push around, and that helped me define her as the ultimate in rebellion, the last honest person in some ways.

steveo263:gailsimone:littlemissonewhoisall:I love Gail Simone, but I cant help but hate her...

steveo263:

gailsimone:

littlemissonewhoisall:

I love Gail Simone, but I cant help but hate her Batgirl run for what it represents, and whenever someone calls her the best Batgirl writer, I want to scream Kelley Puckett’s name at them at the top of my lungs. 

She’s the best BARBARA GORDON writer, sure, but best Batgirl writer? Not even close.

I hope it’s okay to respond to this, it came up in my feed thing.

It’s absolutely fine to hate my work for any reason or no reason at all, I don’t take any offense at that. But beyond that, I agree with you pretty much on best Batgirl writers.

For me, the best are Kelly Puckett for Cass, Bryan Q. Miller for Steph, and Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty for Barbara in Batgirl: Year One.

I am proud of what we did and I think there’s a lot of great stuff in my run, but having a favorite Batgirl writer is like having a favorite Beatle, everyone has one and everyone’s absolutely correct in their choice, you know?

Respectfully, the problem with this is:

Comparing the Batgirls as equal doesn’t work.

Cass was one of the first (the first?) women of color to headline a Big Two series. To this day she is by far the longest-running. Beating the next-closest by about six times. As far as I can figure, the only character of color in history to have a longer Big Two single run was Shang-Chi’s original Master of Kung Fu series.

(Black Panther has had many more issues as a solo star but has never had a single run get to issue seventy without a cancellation and relaunch)

Cass has an importance from a social justice/diversity standpoint that is regularly ignored. The narrative that it was A Real Shame that she lost her title, her codename, and disappeared for years is incomplete: it was also one of the biggest backwards steps in terms of diversity in the history of Big Two comics. And that is entirely ignored.

So when people are skeptical of Steph having been Batgirl or Babs being back as Batgirl, it’s not about (or not just about playing favorites), it’s about how once we had a Batgirl who was a big step forward and she was violently and dismissively tossed aside for white girls.

I don’t disagree with any of that, I didn’t feel we were comparing Batgirls however, so much as Batgirl writers. I was very pissed about Cass, so much so that I didn’t really give Steph a fair chance until her book was almost cancelled. I don’t to this day understand taking Cass out of the picture. It makes no sense, and the reasons I have heard just don’t add up.

So, yeah, I don’t get it. From a purely commercial viewpoint, Cass and Barb have proven success as far as sales are concerned. She needs her own book. Hopefully someone is working towards that, as I have banged my head against the wall on that for years.

Submissions for a Mental Health Anthology

Submissions for a Mental Health Anthology :

internationalschoolofcomics:

Comics creator and #BlackComicsMonth founder Tee “Vixen” Franklin looks to conquer the stigma of mental illness, and she’s snagged the likes of Scott Snyder, Gail Simone and Maguerite Bennet to help her deliver what she hopes to be the final blow to the stigma attached to the 1 in 4 Americans who suffer from some form of mental illness. She also needs your help! Submissions are open beginning September 30 through October 31, and she is looking for stories from those who have dealt with the myriad of disorders, whether it is your own battle or with someone in your family. Please go check out her submission guidlines for further details, and sorry, it’s only for those 18 and up.

littlemissonewhoisall:I love Gail Simone, but I cant help but hate her Batgirl run for what it...

littlemissonewhoisall:

I love Gail Simone, but I cant help but hate her Batgirl run for what it represents, and whenever someone calls her the best Batgirl writer, I want to scream Kelley Puckett’s name at them at the top of my lungs. 

She’s the best BARBARA GORDON writer, sure, but best Batgirl writer? Not even close.

I hope it’s okay to respond to this, it came up in my feed thing.

It’s absolutely fine to hate my work for any reason or no reason at all, I don’t take any offense at that. But beyond that, I agree with you pretty much on best Batgirl writers.

For me, the best are Kelly Puckett for Cass, Bryan Q. Miller for Steph, and Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty for Barbara in Batgirl: Year One.

I am proud of what we did and I think there’s a lot of great stuff in my run, but having a favorite Batgirl writer is like having a favorite Beatle, everyone has one and everyone’s absolutely correct in their choice, you know?