Gail Simone's Blog, page 317
February 17, 2015
spudstudios:more #sketchbook #ladydarkannisia #redsonja
WOW! I...
more #sketchbook #ladydarkannisia #redsonja
WOW! I missed this sketch somehow…FANTASTIC!
jamie-is-awesome:The very talented Gail Simone picked up an...
The very talented Gail Simone picked up an outstanding contribution award. Well deserved. #gailsimone #lfcc #truebeliever #awards #comiccon
You know what’s a weird feeling?
When you are in another country (England) for a convention, and they ask you to be there for an awards ceremony, and they are giving out the first ever True Believer awards, and the first category is for Outstanding Contribution to Comics, and Stan Lee names a bunch of amazing people who are nominated, and you hear your own name, and then Stan Lee says you won, and then you go up and Stan Lee hands you the award, the first True Believer award given to anyone, voted on by readers, and you can’t even understand what your life has become.
faithtrustlittlebitofpixiedust:Misfit cake for my last day at...
faithtrustlittlebitofpixiedust:
Misfit cake for my last day at work! My coworkers rule #misfit#gailsimone#birdsofprey
Just a reminder of HOW CUTE THIS CAKE IS.
karnythia:
So I can finally announce that my first comic book will be coming out later this year as...
So I can finally announce that my first comic book will be coming out later this year as part of the Swords of Sorrow crossover event that Gail Simone is headlining. *twirls & twerks away*
Yay!
dynamitecomics:Get ready for Swords of SorrowThe all-female...
Get ready for Swords of Sorrow
The all-female crossover event from Gail Simone, Sergio Davila, and some of the best ladies in the butt-kicking business!
Can’t wait for you guys to read this!
Swords of Sorrow looks really cool and all, but don't you think the covers are more than a little cheesecakey?
»»>Fair question! There are a BUNCH of covers to the first issue and a couple of them were drawn or painted before the project was really all put together, so a couple are a bit on the cheesy side, but I thought for the most part, in a fun way. And the rest are spot on, kind of sexy but also terrifying, which I love, by people like Tula Lotay, Jenny Frison, and Robert Hack.
I have a slightly higher tolerance for cheesecake, if it’s done well, than many do, and I understand it, but there should be plenty of choices for issue one, and after that, I think they will all fit the tone of the series more closely.
It’s also true that three main characters don’t traditionally wear much…in the books, I think all Dejah Thoris wears is jewelry. But many, maybe most of the rest of the characters are fully clad and more covers will feature them, as well, characters like Lady Zorro, Miss Fury, Jane Porter, Masquerade and more.
We talked about this a lot while working on it, and if you are focusing on the Sonja, Dejah and Vampi (I mean the artists, not the readers), it’s definitely noticeable that they aren’t wearing much. When the full cast is in there, and all the covers are public, it’s a much fuller picture of what the series is like. Like I say, I like some cheesecake, if it’s done tastefully and there’s some balance. And OH, BOY will there be some balance.
WEIRDEST ARBY’S AD, EVER!You are awesome, Belle Chere!
WEIRDEST ARBY’S AD, EVER!
You are awesome, Belle Chere!
Wow!I finally get to talk about this!DYNAMITE COMICS and I are...
Wow!
I finally get to talk about this!
DYNAMITE COMICS and I are doing the ULTIMATE pulp heroine adventure book. It’s called WOMEN OF DYNAMITE—SWORDS OF SORROW, and I couldn’t possibly be any more excited.
Remember when crossovers were just plain fun to read, like having a jetpack while eating your favorite cereal? :)
I was telling people that when I was a kid, all my action figures played together, no one cared if one was from Star Wars and one was a superhero. That’s what this is like for me. We get to put Vampirella and Kato and Jane Porter and Jungle Girl and Miss Fury and lots, lots more, all in the same wild adventure.
One of the funnest things for me is I, former hairdresser living in the boonies, got to write the first time in HISTORY that a character from Edgar Rice Burroughs gets to meet a character from the worlds of Robert E. Howard. I can’t tell you how much fun that was. And that’s just in issue two!
It’s a six issue mini, but even more fun, we have a bunch of companion books featuring the main characters going up against each other, like RED SONJA VS. JUNGLE GIRL and KATO VS. MASQUERADE and VAMPIRELLA VS. JENNIFER BLOOD. All huge fun, crossing dimensions, genres, eras, and worlds!
And the best part of all, I got to hand pick the writing teams for each of these books, and I chose from the hottest, most talented new female adventure writers to match the excitement of the concept. These are my She-Vengers!
G. WILLOW WILSON—brilliant writer of the smash hit MS. MARVEL!
MARGUERITE BENNETT-uber-hot new talent, writer of ANGELA and BATMAN!
NANCY A. COLLINS—Critically acclaimed writer of VAMPIRELLA!
MAIRGHREAD SCOTT—Talented writer of TRANSFORMERS: WINDBLADE!
ERICA SCHULTZ—Sensational writer of M3 and Marvel’s REVENGE!
LEAH MOORE—Incredible writer of SHERLOCK HOLMES and DAMSELS!
EMMA BEEBY—Gifted new talent, first female writer of JUDGE DREDD ever!
MIKKI KENDALL—Acclaimed SF author and activist in her comics debut!
We aren’t yet able to announce all the artists and line-ups and characters, we want to keep SOME things secret, but man alive, this is what comics events are meant to be, for me, just huge fun and impossible scenarios. But how fun is it to work with these killer women? TOO MUCH FUN.
It’s the first time most of these legendary pulp heroines have ever been in the same book, let alone the same story.
My idea was, what if the Pulp era had catered not just to guys, primarily, but also had female writers, titles, and characters? It’s the pulp era that never happened (but really should have), and it’s a big, fun, sprawling adventure with all the best toys!
Can’t wait for this to come out—we have been keeping silent about it for months and can finally start talking about it. HOORAY!
Come join us. WOMEN OF DYNAMITE—SWORDS OF SORROW!
Also, here are a couple covers to issue one, but the great Jenny Frison and Tula Lotay! Just a taste of what’s coming…the issues so far look absolutely gorgeous!
I would love to see Charise Carnes/Knightfall in Secret Six. It seems like 99% of super-villains in the Batman-verse are referred to as insane, and since the series is so well known it often makes me wonder whether it contributes to people stigmatizing men
I have said this a lot and I have been just as guilty of this as any other bat-writer, but I’m trying to do better. The shorthand in comics for decades has been mental illness = evil. The bat-verse in particular is thick with it.
I think it’s okay to keep the major villains with their problems but we have to balance it out, we have to show nuance and context, and we have to rethink how we design characters in the future. It’s going to be an ongoing process.
For Knightfall, you are exactly right, I wanted Batgirl to have a villain that was more like Bane, someone who has assets and determination equal to the hero of the book, but didn’t have that stock mental illness-as-origin-story that so many comic villains have.
I like Charise and I know I shouldn’t, but you know, the thing about her is, we think her methods are so deplorable and far-fetched, and I’m not sure they’re really that far-fetched at all. A state recently re-instituted the firing squad. We have shown again and again that many people don’t care if we torture prisoners, without trial or evidence. We have shown again and again that we don’t care about creating an eternal prison culture. We see large numbers of people at best apathetic and at worst downright joyful at police shootings of unarmed citizens.
Knightfall is s product of that thinking. It’s a big part of what Secret Six has been about, that lack of empathy and humanity is not strength, it’s not an asset. It reminds me of how the Punisher started as, essentially, a Spider-man villain, that eventually ended up glorifying the exact methods he was created to condemn.
There are people who are telling us every day that compassion and mercy are weaknesses. They’re wrong, and they are making everything worse by spewing that philosophy.
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