Gail Simone's Blog, page 71

Who has the best butt in comics: Nightwing or Spider-Man?

Nightwing because it won’t shoot you with webbing when you try to get a look at it.

"Is the idea that it equates being a woman with having a vagina?" Pretty much. It was especially difficult seeing it become a symbol of the women's march in January, which was an event that was not terribly inclusive if you weren't a straight-white-cis lad

I am a feminist but I’m pretty fucking sick of non-inclusive feminism entirely.

The fact that you knit makes me unbearably happy. That's all.

I actually have crocheted most of my life, I haven’t knitted that much. I just started a little while ago to make the hats for the LoveIsLove benefit!

Today is the penultimate issue of CLEAN ROOM (for now!).This has been the project I am probably the...

Today is the penultimate issue of CLEAN ROOM (for now!).

This has been the project I am probably the most proud of. I feel it’s not really like anything else on the stands.

I cannot thank the people who worked on it enough. Without their brilliance and dedication, it would just be me scratching illegible words on the side of a chicken coop somewhere in Des Moines.

Thank you so, so, so much to Shelly Bond, who was our greatest champion for this book and provided daily inspiration, thank you to Rowena Yow for holding the lifeline.

Thank you to one of my favorite editors, one of the industry’s real hidden gems, Molly Mahan. I loved working with her on Red Sonja so much I stalked her until she moved to Vertigo to edit this book. Thank you to the wonderful Jamie Rich, who always tells the truth and I love him for it, and Margarita Howell, who is just incredibly reliable and encouraging and lovely.

Thank you to Quinton Winters, who brought just a deadly and subtle color sense to our book, that’s brought extra meaning and depth to everything.

Thank you to Todd Klein, how we got the best letterer in comics, I will never know.

And the three artistic wonder children, I cannot thank these people enough. This has not been a normal book, and these three brought every weird tool in their weird toolbox to make you unsettled.

Jenny Frison. I am proud to say I knew she was a superstar long before most. I fell in love with her work the first time I saw it, in Chicago, many years ago. I knew she could kill a cover, I didn’t know she could do what she did with CLEAN ROOM. She should get an Eisner. She should get ALL the Eisners.

Jon Davis-Hunt. I love this guy. Jon was making great money working on video games and quit that to devote his time to CLEAN ROOM. As the initial artist, he set the tone and designed the look of everything, and when anyone else on the team was tired, Jon would write a letter and sign it BOOOOOM! and we couldn’t help but be happy. One of the best artists I’ve ever worked with and I may forgive Warren Ellis for stealing him one day, possibly around the year 3283.

Walter Geovani. Another person stolen from our Red Sonja run. Walter stepped into an impossible task, following a brilliant artist on a book he designed. But because Walter is Walter, and talented beyond words, he made it work, and every page was a delightful revelation. I have a lot of artists I love working with, but some seem to have a direct line to the sad weird landscape of my brain’s interior, and Walter is one of those guys. Just the best.

I’m sure I’m forgetting someone. I want to say that I’ve had a huge blast on this book, I hope we’re not done for good. And thank you so much to Vertigo for being so great and supportive.

Hopefully, more Astrid and Killian and Spark and Chloe and Haverlins and Duncan and Capone and Entities to come!

THANK YOU ALL!

theamazingchickenman:It is now one of my life goals to give Gail Simone a high five.TUMBLR HIGH...

theamazingchickenman:

It is now one of my life goals to give Gail Simone a high five.

TUMBLR HIGH FIVE RIGHT THERE!

SLAP!

you're the only comics writer who's never let me down, thanks mom

Wait a minute, are you SURE I’m your mom? :)

Hello! I have a few super heroes in mind but I want to make sure that they are going to be good heroes. Do you have an advice on how to make proper super heroes?

I am not sure I understand the question, it might be a little bit too open-ended. Can you narrow down what you mean for me?

Ignoring the hate from your brave anons, what are your thoughts on pussy hats being transphobic?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I just heard someone present that idea for the first time a couple days ago, and I’m not sure I understand the idea behind it 100%.

I don’t claim any special insight or understanding, I’m cis and straight and white and like a lot of people like that, sometimes I can miss something problematic even if it’s staring me right in the face. 

Is the idea that it equates being a woman with having a vagina? My understanding with the hats was that the ‘pussy’ part was always playing a word game, that they were meant to look more like cat ears, hence the ‘pussy,’ or at least I have heard that many times.

I am happy to hear if I am missing your point. This stuff is important, I would never want to deliberately heap any more crap on trans folk, there’s more than enough people doing that already. 

Hi, Gail! I'll be going to Megacon to see you again this year and would love to get one of those hats. I googled and checked the Megacon site but didn't see information about a benefit? Will it be an auction or will you be selling them individually?

Ah, this is an excellent question!

I am not sure how many I will have, but it appears it won’t be enough. So I am going to leave it up to the benefit organizers what to do with them. They are considering just selling them, or auctioning them, or giving them away as prizes. So I don’t know yet, sorry!

You are talented and funny and I really enjoy your work.

Aw!

Thanks! I am having fun.  :)