Gail Simone's Blog, page 280
May 15, 2015
How much Arrow could an Arrow Arrow if an Arrow could Arrow Arrow?
I don’t know, but I ship Arrow and Arrow.
Question About American Comics In ChinaI am here at the first ever Shanghai Comic Convention,...
Question About American Comics In China
I am here at the first ever Shanghai Comic Convention, it’s going to be a ton of fun, but I realized, I have no idea how a reader in China gets their comics.
If you are informed about this, or live in mainland China…how do you read your comics? Do you get them in stores, or is there something like comixology, do they get pirated as torrents?
No judgment, I am just curious to know so I am better informed. Thank you!
Not sure if I've said this before, but I'd like to thank you for being such a huge inspiration to me as a young writer -- your BOP run were the first comic volumes I bought, and it really inspired me to keep writing! :) I was just so used to seeing women i
Thank you so much, that means a lot to me.
I talk about bop a lot, it was one of my favorite things to write ever. But its enduring legacy may well be that it was such an amazing gateway drug. I talk to women in all aspects of comics all the time who specifically came to comics because of those wonderful bop ladies. That is something I am very proud to have been part of.
Bop rules, I miss it a lot. Thank you again!
Interesting… Lemon Tea Pringles and Green Tea Ice Cream Oreos.Shanghai, your snacks are...
Interesting…
Lemon Tea Pringles and Green Tea Ice Cream Oreos.
Shanghai, your snacks are intriguing!
May 13, 2015
theimancameron:
gailsimone:
femmebotnoir:
New. Favorite....
New. Favorite. Panel. I might be late to reading this issue but my day is now made because of this moment.
He’s right, they are all hopeless S-E-X-ers.
S-E-Xers is now the word of the day!
Random Burden appearance!
breakyoursoulapart:
gailsimone:
wonderwomanfans:
Princess...
Princess Diana introduces her boyfriend to her mother, the Queen. From Wonder Woman #24, by Gail Simone and Bernard Chang, 2008.
My favorite bit of this is that the boyfriend isn’t above a little flattery and Hippolyta isn’t above a little ACCEPTANCE of that flattery.
SUCH a fun book to write.
My only criticism of your tenure was making a KING of Themyscria.
Beyond that, gold.ps. What does a Black Canary milkshake taste like?
To be fair, everyone except Zeus KNEW that was the worst idea ever.
Even Achilles didn’t want to be king.
And Black Canary’s milkshake is the best, obviously.
May 12, 2015
Dr. Lepore’s Lament
So I was the last person on the internet to find out about this little op-ed by Jill Lepore. When Harvard professors are throwing shade on you from the rarified heights of the New Yorker, you have officially arrived in life, or at least in comics. So I was rather chuffed by this piece, though I do want to respond to some of the points raised, because they tie into some of the broader conversations we’ve been having lately in the comics community. I’d like to give a shout-out to Valkyrie Leia Calderon for drawing my attention to this piece–you can read her thoughtful and candid open letter to Dr. Lepore here.
If you are an avid comic book reader and/or follower of industry trends, none of what I’m about to say will be news to you. However, for those of you who are new to the medium, returning to the medium, or just interested in the continuing debate on the role of gender in pop culture, I hope what follows will be useful and help flesh out the conversation.
First off, a funny tidbit: Dr. Lepore and I have met, though she probably doesn’t remember, as I was a scrappy teenager with a fauxhawk at the time. Way back when I was an undergraduate, she gave a guest lecture on the French and Indian Wars in an American History colloquium I was taking at Boston University. She struck me as very intelligent and thoughtful, a passionate historian.
So I was a bit surprised that someone who obviously values rigorous scholarship would analyze the first issue of a crossover event without any apparent knowledge of what a crossover event is, or what the heavily tongue-in-cheek “feminist paradise,” Arcadia, represents in the context of the Secret Wars and the wider Marvel Universe. (Does she know about the zombies? Somebody please tell her about the zombies.) Thus decontextualized, what Dr. Lepore is left with is a cover depicting a bunch of characters about whom she admits to knowing nothing, and one fifth of a story, which is perhaps why her analysis reads as so perplexingly shallow, even snarky.
PROUD to call her my friend, you guys.
Will DC ever do any kind of reprints of the Birds of Prey paperbacks? Silly question, but looking at Amazon some of the volumes are kind of up there in price. Being a person who prefers books to digital and who doesn't have a lot of money, it would be awes
The out of print books from my run are ridiculously expensive to buy most places.
There is some hope! Secret Six is now being collected in really reasonably priced collections, if the first one sells great, they will reprint the rest.
And they are doing a similar thing with Bop, starting with #1, well before my run. Hopefully, sales stay high and they will reprint the whole thing!
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