Gail Simone's Blog, page 805
February 7, 2013
Did you have a say on the Batgirl story in Young Romance?
No, it happened during that weird Twilight time when I wasn’t on Batgirl anymore.
silentsmack:
iamdavidbrothers:
I want you to keep this...
I want you to keep this two-page story by Matt Wayne, John Paul Leon, Noelle Giddings, and Dave Sharpe in mind this month. I want you to think of this every time someone — anyone, myself included — invokes Dwayne McDuffie’s name.
I want you to think about what they have to gain when they say the man’s name.
Always reblog this when I see it pop up on here.
There are a LOT of latecomers to the McDuffie train, pro and fan alike. A lot of readers who never bought his books talk about what a big influence he was routinely.
He was a real human being. He was a great friend. He’s a big part of why I have a writing career at all. He’s the reason I have animation credits. He was my hero and my adviser and my inspiration.
I’m glad he’s a legend now that he’s gone, but he was pretty ****ing legendary to a lot of us when he was ALIVE, too.
On that cover, shouldn't Black Canary be able to shatter the ice with the canary cry?
Well, she’s underwater. I’m not sure the cry carries the same underwater, we never explored that…but a bigger problem would be if she is out of breath. In that case, she couldn’t unleash the cry.
Also, the villain is called the CRUMBLER.
tricksterrune:
My Black Canary, Misfit and Huntress...
My Black Canary, Misfit and Huntress paperdolls.
All are based on the Hetalia dolls - I modified the existing templates with photoshop.
I can’t give you the pattern how to build them right now, it’s on another harddrive. I plan to make more DC chars - Lady Blackhawk, Dove, Batgirl - but I don’t have time right now.
For my templates for DC Rogues, JLI, Sherlock, Marvel and Doctor Who chars, go here
all you need to build your own paperdolls is a template, a pair of scissors (though I prefer an x-acto knife) and some glue. And about 20 to 30 minutes.
Wait, what what what?
LOOK AT THOSE!
Just A Bit Of Housecleaning
Hate to say this but I still get enough letters about these three things that even responding to each one is really time consuming, so I unfortunately have to post this every once in a while.
There’s a couple things I can’t really help with, for time or legal reasons.
1) I cannot read your unsolicited pitch, story, or springboard, legally. I still get maybe twenty of these a week. I CANNOT read them. It is sadly just a waste of your time to send them to me. I wish you all the success in the world, I am happy you are creating, but I can’t read it, under any circumstances.
2) I cannot help you with your homework/thesis/school paper, etc. I just can’t. I get up to thirty such requests a week sometimes, a day never goes by without one such request. I would like to help, but it is simply far, far too time consuming and believe me, the VAST, VAST majority of questions these folks ask me for their papers are topics I have covered endlessly here and elsewhere, which makes me a little impatient anyway. If you value my time so little that you can’t look up and see if I’ve covered a topic endlessly already, odds are we have started off on a bad footing.
But the thing is, it takes hours to answer these questions well, and a tiny number of people would see it and most of it is redundant. If I can’t do it for one person, I have to simply flatly say I can’t to it for anyone.
I try to answer as many questions as humanly possible, but I have to do it where lots of people can see it or I end up answering the same question endlessly forever, and I can’t do that. I’m sorry.
3) I can’t really help you become a writer. I can answer SPECIFIC questions of craft and the industry, sometimes, here where it can hopefully benefit more people than just one. But I can’t find you an artist or an editor or an agent, I can’t tell you what your next step is. I do have an article that I link to every so often here, and it might help. Please read this and if you still have questions, go ahead and ask.
http://gailsimone.tumblr.com/post/4654769851/brutal-tips-on-breaking-into-comics-warning-long
Thank you, really sorry I have to keep posting this to those of you who have seen it before.
Ever plan to attend a con in England?
I attended two just a year ago, in Leeds and in London. The closest I will be this year is Octocon in Dublin, In October, I think!
How do you decide which Conventions to attend?
It used to be relatively easy, I chose cons based on a few things; if it was in a place I had not been to so I could meet new readers, if it was in a place I wanted to explore, or if it was a sizable enough con that I could meet a LOT of readers, those things were the priorities…if a con was in Singapore, for example, and I wanted so see that country AND not that many Western creators had been there, that was a goer.
But lately other things come up sometimes, too…if a con is run by people who have been super-supportive, or if a con has a guest list with a lot of people I would like to meet, or simply loyalty to organizers who have been good to me, those things make a big difference. The signing I am doing on Saturday is because the store owner has been hugely and unfailingly kind and supportive.
But now I am being asked to far more cons than I can possibly attend, at least two are turned down for every one I can attend. It’s gotten a little difficult…I don’t want to disappoint people and I’d like to attend and support a lot of smaller cons, but at this point, I am pretty clearly completely booked all the way into 2014. So the answer is, I just do the best I can and try to choose wisely!
February 6, 2013
"I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking..."
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Never forget that Eric Clapton is an openly racist asshole. Beyond being the guy whose shtick was whiting up blues and Bob Marley joints for boomers, I mean.
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A big supporter of the keep England white campaign
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this cracker really said wogs and coons doe
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And as usual, I had no goddamn idea. Go to hell, Clapton.
biacomcafe:
As you see, I had veeeery interesting classes till...
As you see, I had veeeery interesting classes till now
Hahaha, look at Bane and Scandal!
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