Gail Simone's Blog, page 427
August 6, 2014
thehappysorceress:
So, my custom Lady Blackhawk figure is...
So, my custom Lady Blackhawk figure is finished!
Made by Adam Crohn of AC Custom Figures, it was the first female figure he’d made & I think he did a pretty darn good job of it.
You can see more pictures of her here. And when she arrives, you know I’ll be using her in Action Figure Theater!
OH MY GOD WANT.
queercomicsblog:
It’s time for the very first Queer...
It’s time for the very first Queer Comics giveaway contest! We’re really excited to see who’s out there and excited about queer comics and comic creators, and the contest is pretty damn important too. Do you want to see comics made by and about people who are #queerlikeme and you? Share with us!
You could win one or all of the comics above and more:
A copy of Batgirl #19 by Gail Simone, with our favorite bisexual BFF from the batgirl series, Alysia Yeoh. This is her coming out issue, as well as a very tense issue for the Gordon family.
Multiple issues of the diverse and super-queer Young Avengers series by Kieron Gillen, including #11 (shown), #13, and #6.
Issues of The Movement by Gail Simone, featuring multiple queer (and queer readable) young adult characters.
A whole bunch of our favorite new comic The Pride by Joe Glass, which features a whole cast and crew of queer characters, playing for and against stereotypes and labels and generally just being its own marking stone in LGBT comics.
A near mint original copy of Engima #1 by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo, featuring one of the best superhero m/m romances in comics to date from the early 90s.
And a whole lot more! Comics featuring queer and queer-interpreted characters like Deadpool, Harley Quinn, Red Sonja, Hercules, Wonder Woman, and the Wolverine.And here’re the nuts and bolts:
The giveaway is open to everyone, international or from the United States.
This contest (whether it’s first wave, or the whole shebang, will end August 23nd at 10pm EST.
Your selfie (if you post one) should have about a sentence worth of your thoughts on queer rep, or your own identity, and the phrase/hashtag “#queerlikeme.”If you enter from twitter:
You gotta be following queercomics’ tweets (or you won’t see who wins!).
You should ‘@ reply’ us in your tweet if you can, and you must tag it #queerlikeme somewhere in the body.If you enter from Tumblr:
You must be following queercomicsblog to win.
You must reblog this post.
You can reblog as many times and as often as you want.
Tag your seflie/thoughts about queer representation in comics #queerlikeme and #queercomics.
Reblogs = one entry into the single comics giveaway (up to four comics of ever type, plus a special tumblr-exclusive surprise.) Photo/text entries = two additional entries and a chance to win the whole set.
These are wonderful peeps. Check it out!
What's been happening in the Randy Queen situation, and what the timeline was
This is a repost from my personal blog:
Okay, so I didn’t originally plan to make a blog post about what’s been happening, but given how much media attention this has gotten, I feel like I should make a post just to clarify what’s going on, and the timeline of events thus far.
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I’ve said it before and I will say it again. IF Randy goes forward with this ridiculous nonsense, I will do everything in my power to raise money for Ami and Escher Girls, for their rigorous defense.
August 5, 2014
Who Is Coming To Boston Comic Con?
Come let me look at you, dammit!
I will be at table c810, all three days. I have a couple panels, I think but I don’t remember what they are, offhand.
I will also have scripts available on a first-come, first-served basis.
I don’t charge for signatures and am delighted to sigh however many books you bring.
Everyone come say hi!
bludd61:
From Blackest Night: Suicide Squad #67.
I once went...
From Blackest Night: Suicide Squad #67.
I once went to a huge video game company’s complex, ACCLAIM (makers of the Mortal Kombat games, among others) and while I spoke mostly with the story and art people there, I did speak with some of the people doing the actual programming, and I offered the opinion that it seemed like it would be a difficult job.
And one of them said yes, it was, but that there were rewards, and that, for example, ‘right now I am doing a piece of really fun coding.’
That always stuck with me, that there are bits of every job that people look forward to, even the ones I would have a hard time relating to, apparently.
This is like that…I knew the moment we were assigned a Suicide Squad/Secret Six crossover that this fight was going to happen, Bronze Tiger vs. Catman. I knew it HAD to happen. Even though there were two writers, I knew I wanted to write this bit. Even though the other writer, John Ostrander, was the guy who made the Tiger cool, I WAS DYING TO WRITE THIS.
There are lots of bits in every script that are what I call, ‘necessary choreography,’ that is to say, bits of stuff that need to be included because the story calls for it, and your job is to make it interesting and not purely expository. Character needs to get in a car and drive across town? You have to make that not boring.
But the bits like this, they are the most fun, because your job really is not to mess them up, to just let them be as fun as they obviously WANT to be.
Fight between Bronze Tiger and Catman? Yes. That’s for me, thanks.
Can you come to the Dallas comic con?
Not this year, sadly. Sorry!
Comics Awards For Women and PoC
Comics Awards For Women and PoC
CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) recently launched the “Cupcake Award,” a $250 microgrant to self-publish a new comic that comes with mentorship from Annie Koyama (the powerhouse behind Koyama Press) and a free table at next year’s show. CAKE is a young comics show, just going in to their fourth year, and they work to distinguish themselves by nurturing and supporting early-career comic…
eschergirls:
So yesterday I found out that Randy Queen (artist...
So yesterday I found out that Randy Queen (artist of DarkChylde) filed a bunch of DMCA takedown notices to Tumblr to remove posts of his covers on this blog (the entire posts, not just the images). I’ve also gotten messages from other users that he’s had their stuff removed too (redraws, etc that have been featured here). Non-critical Tumblr posts of his art/covers and those praising his work appear to be unaffected.
I’m writing this to let other people who run sites that might have criticized his work ( thehawkeyeinitiative, bikiniarmorbattledamage, boobsdontworkthatway, repair-her-armor, comicartcorrections etc) know that he seems to use DMCA takedowns to remove pages that are critical of his work. And, to be prepared that he might have Tumblr remove your posts without warning (there was no prior communication of any kind, or conventional requests for removal).
Also, if you’ve submitted redraws of his stuff to these sites, you might want to ask them to put them private for now (if he complains about a submission you’ve made, Tumblr will count it as a complaint against your account).
To date, Mr. Queen is the only artist who has taken this kind of action - other artists and publishers seem to understand Escher Girls & other similar sites are fair use and criticism, and that fan discussion, positive or negative, is important and helpful to their business. (In fact, the creators I’ve interacted with are either fans of EG, or expressed disagreement but know that it’s fan criticism.)
If anybody is curious about what his DarkChylde art looked like and why they were featured on this blog you can find them here.
(Don’t harass him on his Facebook or Tumblr by the way. I’m not interested in having a feud with him, just letting people know what’s going on.)
Update: He has now filed a DMCA takedown with Tumblr to remove this post. This post is still up on Escher Girls, but every single reblog of it has been removed.
Saying it again as clearly as I can.
These bullying tactics by Randy Queen are DEAD WRONG and this is completely unacceptable.
Mr. Queen, LEAVE THESE PEOPLE ALONE.
You are absolutely in the wrong on this, and are only making yourself look worse by further threats.
would you ever consider coming to vancouver fan expo?
Oh, yeah, I love Vancouver. I think they invited me this year but I was already booked somewhere. But I am wild for that whole area.
August 4, 2014
I can't even put into words how happy I am to hear you're going to be at Boston Comic-Con! Things have been a tad bit rough lately, so finding that out has really made my day. Is it alright if I have you sign my first volume of your Batgirl?
I would be honored, and I hope you have the best time ever.
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