Gail Simone's Blog, page 1033
April 25, 2012
dumoktheartist:
gailsimone:
supervillainshowdown:
Giganta
Thi...
Giganta
This is a really nice drawing and a fun tweaking of the design…I actually like her with this hairstyle better than the canon version.
The Short hair doesn’t really fit her. Giganta is too girlie for the Buzz cut look.
That’s not a buzz cut, and why can’t short hair be girlie?
deluxvivens:
pyromantix:
tzoc-che:
nakkyy:
lastrealindians:
...
Rapid City, South Dakota – A member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated. Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken the day after he came home.
Vernon Traversie, who is completely blind, said his nightmare began when he had a heart attack while at the Heart Doctors office in Rapid City last August. He said they immediately sent him a few blocks away to Rapid City Regional Hospital for emergency surgery….read the rest: LAKOTA MAN ACCUSES HOSPITAL OF HEALTHCARE HATE CRIME, By Evelyn Red Lodge
Please read and reblog.
This is so awful it hurts.
I have no words.
YOU GUYS THIS IS THE AREA I COME FROM.
This hopefully explains a lot of the angry that I have.
Waiting for some creatively inspired headdress wearers to honor this indian man by activism on his behalf.
In the meantime, the rest of us can get busy on this.
Oh, dear god.
Some days, you wish there really WAS a hell for the people that did this.
girljanitor:
gailsimone:
girljanitor:
A Q&A with Comics...
A Q&A with Comics Artist Jennifer Cruté, author of The Life of a SubUrban Girl
You have to put a jester hat on any oppressor—be that oppressor a person, a group or your own mind. I feel that the skill of dark humor is something that is innate in most cartoonists/artists that had to or have to deal with the oppression of racism, prejudice, sexism, homophobia, etc. etc. This skill helps me to draw a funny image with a message that may disturb, but will most certainly inform and hopefully educate.
My heart goes out to her…we have actually had the opposite problem many times, where even after repeatedly asking an artist to draw an African American woman (or an African woman, such as Vixen), with more classically African features, we would routinely get back drawings that looked like blonde Barbie with dark, non-African hair. Even after including multiple photo references, even then we would get back women who looked identical to the white females. Even with POC artists, in many cases. Why is something so simple so hard?
Probably because of the scenario above, repeated 8945738976476279 times. And getting their work of PoC who look like PoC rejected 348975839478397 times. And because people gotta eat.
I am sure that’s true for some, which blows. I don’t want to take away from the excellent interview (can’t wait to see more of Jennifer’s work), but I should clarify. I have never had a black artist have problems delivering a black character with classical African features…the opposite is the case, so far, they delivered on that hugely each time it’s come up. I squealed with delight to have a story about two African American little girls actually LOOK the part for a short story a few years back. That was sheer bliss.
The POC artists I am talking about aren’t black…I suspect many of them live in countries with fewer citizens with African features. I should have been clearer on that, my fault entirely. I remember one artist, an incredibly talented guy otherwise, who just couldn’t understand what we were even asking for no matter how many different ways we tried to get it across. Urrrgh.
Anyway, I hope everyone reads the interview, Jennifer Crute sounds amazing and draws beautifully.
Sorry for the detour, there.
girljanitor:
A Q&A with Comics Artist Jennifer Cruté,...
A Q&A with Comics Artist Jennifer Cruté, author of The Life of a SubUrban Girl
You have to put a jester hat on any oppressor—be that oppressor a person, a group or your own mind. I feel that the skill of dark humor is something that is innate in most cartoonists/artists that had to or have to deal with the oppression of racism, prejudice, sexism, homophobia, etc. etc. This skill helps me to draw a funny image with a message that may disturb, but will most certainly inform and hopefully educate.
My heart goes out to her…we have actually had the opposite problem many times, where even after repeatedly asking an artist to draw an African American woman (or an African woman, such as Vixen), with more classically African features, we would routinely get back drawings that looked like blonde Barbie with dark, non-African hair.
Even after including multiple photo references, even then we would get back women who looked identical to the white females. Even with POC artists, in many cases.
Why is something so simple so hard?
supervillainshowdown:
Giganta
This is a really nice drawing...
Giganta
This is a really nice drawing and a fun tweaking of the design…I actually like her with this hairstyle better than the canon version.
April 24, 2012
billcorbett:
HARPO = answer to previous...
HARPO = answer to previous (http://billcorbett.tumblr.com/post/21767268924/no-googling-or-other-internet-magic-now-who-is)!
(And the woman with him in the previous pic was his wife Susan Fleming.)
End quiz! If that’s what it was!
Still makes me laugh HARD.
APE IN A CAPE: After Some Debate...
… I decided to post this note, or most of it. I have removed the names so that the writer is anonymous. This was sent to me on an account where I am no longer a moderator, so I can’t respond directly, so it seemed fair to post a short response here.
I actually got a lot of letters like this for a…
I don’t see how having a pro-LGBTQ agenda is in any way a bad thing Gail and I thank you for including LGBTQ characters in your work. I hope that we’re going to see some in Batgirl soon as your one of the few writers in comics who actually seems to be bothered with including anything other than nothing but white heterosexuals in your work and you write excellent LGBTQ characters.
And the DCU has a serious need for more of them
There are barely any lesbian characters, even fewer gay male characters, perhaps a total of two bisexuals that I can think of and I have yet to see one single Transgender character in a mainstream superhero comic book.
I loved Catman and I loved him even more when you revealed he was Bi. I hope that when he next appears you get the chance to make this canon because there is no such thing as having too many LGBTQ characters in comic books
I PROMISE I am working on it. There were and are lgbtq characters in both Firestorm and Batgirl, but they haven’t been revealed yet and now I have left Firestorm, so both a prominent lgbtq character and a prominent pwd hero I had developed will probably not appear in Firestorm, sadly.
I do have two new projects I am working on that await final approval. If they go through, well, they are two of the most diverse casts ever at either DC or Marvel AND they kick very much mucho lots bookoo ass.
I am sorry it takes longer for this stuff to actually appear than hoped, no one is sadder about that than the creators involved.
There's A Place In My Headcanon
Where Zinda’s getting drunk and partying, where Liana, Scandal and Knockout are married and rearing a little hellraiser toddler, where Creote and Savant are enjoying a sandy beach somewhere, where Dinah and Barbara and Helena are still best friends and where Ryan Choi is heading up the Justice League.
Dang, I just became a fanficcer. ;)
I miss Creote & Savant!!! They were a lovely, messed up couple.
HEY, you! It’s my favorite Marine!
:)
You guys going to make it to Geek Girl Con, by chance?
mixedupqueen:
theweekmagazine:
Planned Parenthood clinics in...
Planned Parenthood clinics in at least 11 states have noted suspiciously similar walk-ins in recent weeks by young women suggesting they want an abortion only if they are pregnant with a girl.
The apparently coordinated series of “hoax visits” has Planned Parenthood bracing for another “propaganda campaign” by anti-abortion activists who selectively edit secretly videotaped visits to “promote misinformation about Planned Parenthood and our services,” spokeswoman Chloe Cooney tells The Huffington Post.
Keep reading
Hoax visits or not….if Planned Parenthood is really doing things as they should- they have nothing to worry about… Shouldn’t have any reason to prepare, or brace themselves.
Similarly to when secret shoppers or health inspectors visit businesses….. If everythings legitimate, then there isn’t anything to stress about, no matter how many videos are taken.
Just my 2 cents.
I’m sorry, but that;
1) Seems incredibly naive, and
2) Assumes a sense of fairplay on behalf of the people doing the hoaxing.
For some, a camera is a tool of journalism. For others, it is a weapon of distortion, where the hoaxer, in this case, has ALL the tools, all the film, all the editing capabilities, and 100% of the agency with which the material is presented. A committed film crew can make a saint look like the devil without much effort. What do you think the possibility of distortion and unfavorable editing would be in this situation?
Because I would propose that that likelihood is darn near absolute.
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