Gail Simone's Blog, page 498

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Gail Simone is a lovely human being, but her handler at C2E2 today was a total ass to me. Also Neal Adams is a gift and I’m completely exhausted. That was basically my day today.

Wait…what?

Who was rude to you? That is unacceptable!

Can I ask what happened…

Okay, that was a con staffer. I didn’t hear any of that. I will have a talk with him today.

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gailsimone:

birdie-told-me:

Gail Simone is a lovely human being, but her handler at C2E2 today was a total ass to me. Also Neal Adams is a gift and I’m completely exhausted. That was basically my day today.

Wait…what?

Who was rude to you? That is unacceptable!

Can I ask what happened so I can kick their ass?

I apologize for whoever that was, I am furious to hear this!

Was it someone wearing a convention shirt?

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My first day of C2E2: Signed Birds of Prey #1 working script from Gail Simone and a Red Sonja print signed by artist Jenny Frison with one of my favorite quotes from the series so far written on it by Gail!

JEALOUS OF THAT PRINT!

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Scott Snyder took a pic of me for his twitter!

I also got him and Gail Simone to sign it :3

YOUR DRESS WAS AWESOME AND SO ARE YOU.

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I got the chance to meet with one of my favorite writers Gail Simone today!

She hated my Joker shirt :’(

I just said it was terrifying!

birdie-told-me:Gail Simone is a lovely human being, but her handler at C2E2 today was a total ass...

birdie-told-me:

Gail Simone is a lovely human being, but her handler at C2E2 today was a total ass to me. Also Neal Adams is a gift and I’m completely exhausted. That was basically my day today.

Wait…what?

Who was rude to you? That is unacceptable!

Can I ask what happened so I can kick their ass?

I apologize for whoever that was, I am furious to hear this!

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Can we stop pretending this isn’t deliberate?

I am not asking for a recast of Shana. Even with the assistance of colorism, it is still very difficult for non-white actresses to obtain major roles. If a white actress can be hired for the role? She will be. So every role cast to an actress of color should be held onto with all its might, for the opportunity may not come again. What I am asking for is the basic acknowledgement that colorism exists, it is in play here, and it is erasing black, Latina, Native, and Asian actresses of darker hues from the canvas. It is telling our daughters and our sisters that their skin tone is unfeminine and undesirable. That we should not be relegated to the back, in brief full-body shots in celluloid to provide contrast to the fairer lead, but that we are so unattractive that we should not be seen at all. That we must be adjusted—lightened—to be of worth. To be beautiful. To be wanted. An actress such as Lupita Nyong’o is held as an exception to the “rule” that women of darker hues are unattractive instead of as one mere example of a new rule—that women of all hues are equally beautiful.

I am not going to support the upcoming Jem and the Holograms film. I am no longer going to support any film or television show where a character once heralded as beautiful—due to and not in spite of her skin tone—has been lightened to make said character “acceptable.” Marketable. Not until at least one character makes it from the second dimension to the third with her melanin levels intact. And Hollywood has amazingly yet to give us that. Not even one character.

We are no longer going to accept the message that we are not wanted here and yet still leave our money on the counter as we make our way out.

We have other options now.

Thank You Thank You Thank You

Incredibly warm reception at C2e2 yesterday. People were lovely and my table was slammed the whole day. The panels had wonderful audiences and argh, it was just lovely.

Signing line was emotional, though, I cried a little twice and ALMOST cried a bunch of times. I SHOULD TOUGHEN UP.

Thank you so much for the kind words, and the lovely support, and so much more.

ALSO!  Lauren made me the most AMAZING SCARF! It’s purple and black and has BATS on it!

Hey I always wondered if you ever wrote a character as LGBTQ but couldn't get editorial approval to just be outright with it, for whatever reason, so you just went super subtle and got one past em?

I have snuck stuff past editors in the past but they are mainly contextual things, I would say.

If I want to write an LGBTQ character, I am not going to hide it, that feels very wrong. What I have done in the past is, I just go ahead and do it, and then if they want me to remove the character, they would have to ask me to remove the character, which they are reluctant to do, so the character gets in!

But again, I just haven’t had this problem at DC. Whenever a bit of anxiety about it comes up, it’s been elsewhere.

My C2E2 Schedule For Saturday!

I will be at my table most of the day (O18).

Except for

11:00-12:00 PANEL: DC COMICS NEW52   Rm. N427

12:30-1:30  PANEL: GAYS IN COMICS  Rm. 5401CD

3:00-4:00  SIGNING AT DARK HORSE BOOTH

 

My understanding is that Dark Horse has a C2e2 Exclusive Variant Edition for Tomb Raider available for purchase (It looks awesome) and also are giving away free Tomb Raider posters!  So come by for that, it will be fun!