Gail Simone's Blog, page 653
September 10, 2013
guavajagular:
Gail Simone has some fun art challenges. I know I...
Gail Simone has some fun art challenges. I know I have some young justice fans following me, so it’s about time I did some fan art for it anyway =)
Oh, man, I had such a stressful day…traveling from one city to another, running around finishing scripts and trying to conduct business and junk.
Then I get off the plane and all these amazing sketches! Look at Ace, he wants to share!
This is hilarious, thank you!
morgandea-art:
NEW TRY-OUT PAGE! Nightwing is naked but super...
NEW TRY-OUT PAGE! Nightwing is naked but super classy and is eating gelato in a bathtub. Try to put Ace the Bat-hound in there somewhere!
— GailSimone (@GailSimone)
September 10, 2013
Well, Nightwing didn’t quite make it to the bath, because Ace decided he wanted to play. (Good Bat Dog)
WHY ARE PEOPLE ON TUMBLR SO AMAZING!
This is the best picture of all time because it has; a) adorable puppy, and b) ASSWING!
Wonderful sketch!
Can you explain Virtue's powers? Or would that be a spoiler alert?
The prominent one is that she can ‘ride’ emotional trails. She can follow a trail of fear from a person who was terrified, perhaps, all the way to a scene where violence was committed, and THEN follow a trail from that scene of rage, possibly right to the killer. If the trail is fresh. She SEEMS to be working with the same spectrum of emotions as presented in the Green Lantern books.
What OTHER abilities she has, we are not yet shown…
choochoobear:
See? Sometimes I do fan service. Just not for...
See? Sometimes I do fan service. Just not for people who read my comic.
THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER.
And super-classy!
September 9, 2013
I always heard that what DC and Marvel owned was "Super-Hero," with the dash, not "superhero," without it. Was I wrong to think that?
I really don’t know anything about this topic, and I got a ton of questions about it. Sorry, I just don’t know.
what is the hardest, yet honest, bit of criticism that you have been given that made you change something about the way you work or write? (if any)
My very first story idea I pitched to a pro editor was to the editor of the animated Superman book. I had a good idea, it was an early version of Mary Zero, who ended up in Agent X, later.
I had the big conflict take place at the United Nations building. Seemed a sensible place, lots of conflict, easily recognized.
His notes back were positive, but they started with this…”Sigh. Do you have any idea how many rejected scripts I have that take place at the U.N. building?”
That hit me like a thunderbolt. It changed my writing forever. I am not sure he even meant it like this, but I took it to mean, “You sent me a cliché that EVERYONE ELSE has already sent me.”
That stung, I mean, I wanted to punch myself in the face. How dare I, in my very first pitch, send this editor a hacky, clichéd location that he’d seen a thousand times?
It drove me nuts. It made me realize I was still an amateur with a lot to learn.
So from then on, I have always tried to put a twist or a spin, something I haven’t seen before, on virtually everything. When I did use the U.N. building in a Wonder Woman story, it had EVERYTHING in it to make it unique, two-headed lions and flying elephants and who knows what else.
So that was the best writing advice I ever got, and he may not even have intended it as advice.
That same editor also gave me the WORST single piece of writing advice I ever got, when I was pitching that same story…”Don’t do anything too interesting.”
vanitygames:
Upon seeing that YouTube video that shows cats of...
Upon seeing that YouTube video that shows cats of any size react to cardboard boxes in much the same way, an acquaintance of mine expressed a desire to see Catman in the same imposition.
I tried, Trin. Hope it works for ya.
I am not sure I can express the delight this post gives me.
invisiblelad:
lubiddu:
peechingtonmariejust:
also wondering...
also wondering what percentage of minimum wage workers are women of color.
According to this article, 62.7% of all minimum wage workers are women. Of those, 15.9% are Black, 18.8% are Latina, and 3% are Asian (with 1.2% as “other”).
I don’t know how its possible to have forgotten that there’s a recession going on right now. A lot of people are having to think laterally just to keep food on the table, given inflation and the looming unemployment rate…its not exactly a market where one can be too choosy.
Raising the minimum wage ALWAYS WORKS. I don’t get this at all. It always helps in the end.
Just wanted to remind you that I love you, Gail. All your fans love you, sweetie. Never forget that.
Listen, I am amazed at the support I get.
When I put up some awful thing a troll or anony poster has said, it is honest to god as a joke. I don’t put it up for sympathy or to show how hard I have it or anything like that.
I figure there’s two kinds of criticism I get. Someone doesn’t like my work, fair enough, I don’t really feel that debating a reader is a good idea. I won’t change their mind, they just didn’t like it. And that is fine. I used to argue these things for accuracy and I just realized that only a jackass does that, follows a reader to tell them what they got wrong, it’s embarrassing.
The other is, I get a lot of over-the-top criticism from people that go FAR beyond disliking a story, it’s almost always personal. With those people, it is usually that they hate my politics (understandable), or resent opinionated females (way, way more common than it should be), or at some point, I disagreed with them and they’ve never forgiven me. I have DOZENS of those oddballs still hanging on after years and years. I don’t think that last group is really worth addressing or worrying over.
So all in all, it’s pretty rare the negative stuff gets to me. They are entitled to say what they want and think what they want.
But the secret truth is, sometimes the nice stuff, sometimes the very supportive stuff, can make me cry. Sometimes someone will say something so brutally kind or personal that I have to go step away from the computer for a while. People have told me things about how my stories meant something to them or something I said helped them and I just feel like the most fortunate person in the world. I don’t and never will understand it.
I can’t whine about the negative because the positive stuff has meant so much. I feel like I would be an ingrate to dwell on the bad when people have made such an effort to show the good.
I am just very, very fortunate, please don’t doubt that I am aware of it and am baffled by it all every single day.
'splain dat metahuman, sooperhuman, superhero dc marvel copyright bullshit ta me. i no understand that shit.
If I understand the question…
My understanding is that many years ago, DC and Marvel agreed to co-own the copyright or trademark (can’t remember), to the word, ‘superhero.’
What they were afraid of was some squatter opportunist buying the word and charging them to use it. If you’ve seen how people do that with domain names, I think that’s a pretty fair assumption. Some squatters have leased domain names for MILLIONS over the years.
But if DC and Marvel co-owned it, that wouldn’t happen.
Now, they don’t enforce it for normal use, I am told. You can put the word in your comic without paying a fee. In the early days, I heard they were sensitive about the word appearing in a book’s TITLE, like if you called your book SUPERHERO ACTION or whatever. But I’m not sure if even that is the case anymore.
My knowledge of this is second-hand, but that’s what I’ve heard.
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