Gail Simone's Blog, page 905
October 5, 2012
kevindrakewriter:
thedailywhat:
WoW May Bring Down This...
WoW May Bring Down This Politician of the Day: So this is the age we live in — Maine state Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz is an avid World of Warcraft player, and she’s catching all kinds of hell for it from her Republican opponents.
Lachowicz is being called out for her “time-consuming double life,” and her opposition has even gone so far as to dig up forum posts that are proof of her “crude, vicious, and violent” behavior.
Putting aside Lachowicz’ actual legitimacy as a candidate for a minute, what’s notable is the way political vetting has extended to the virtual world — should politicians be forced to maintain constant professionalism online, or should the public forgive this sort of behavior?
[mainegop]
This make me want to vote for her even more!
I LIKE HER STABBING POLICY!
October 4, 2012
I really, really love your work. It's so unusual in comics (or any scifi/fantasy medium) to see a Bechdel test pass, let alone stories about women that don't create ridiculous pedestals or offensive caricatures. I actually used Birds of Prey to get my frie
Thank you for the kind words!
I had a dream of what Bop could be, and fortunately, I had mostly female editors who were willing to stand by it in the early days when the idea of a female team book that didn’t use up all the usual dude-driven tropes was still pretty wild.
I have to say again, I have to give huge, huge props to Chuck Dixon and Jordan Gorfinkle who created and wrote the book prior to me, they set up the whole thing and a lot of the most powerful female stuff came from their run. I disagree with darn near everything political with Chuck but conservative or not, he put his money where his mouth is with Bop and wrote a book unlike anything else out there, that actually WAS empowering to female readers. It acknowledged they existed.
I didn’t build that, as the saying is goes…Chuck and Jordan did.
I am very proud of what we had in Bop, which was many, many female leads, full of their own agency and motivation, who could care about each other and disagree with each other in a way we almost never see in action stories in the media.
Answering the question…I was poor as a kid, lived on a farm with no tv in the middle of nowhere. Comics were a bit of a luxury. I would read any comic I got until it was in tatters, really.
The first comic that made me a FAN was a Justice League comic. I should have been hopelessly lost…it was the middle chapter of a three parter, I think. It had the Justice Society guest-starring. It had a million characters and tons of continuity. And I got HOOKED by that. They always say that stuff turns readers on, but it hooked me good.
I didn’t know comics were monthly. I didn’t realize that since I’d gotten the comic second hand, the rest of the story wouldn’t just BE there at the only store in town that sold comics. So I kept showing up waiting for it to be there.
I got inspired to get into the industry by lots of things…the great Devin Grayson was making comics, that made it seem like something women could actually do. But the big one is, I had a parody column that editors and creators liked, and they drafted me. I was reluctant at first, but now I’m glad!
I really, really love your work. It's so unusual in comics (or any scifi/fantasy medium) to see a Bechdel test pass, let alone stories about women that don't create ridiculous pedestals or offensive caricatures. I actually used Birds of Prey to get my frie
Thank you for the kind words!
I had a dream of what Bop could be, and fortunately, I had mostly female editors who were willing to stand by it in the early days when the idea of a female team book that didn’t use up all the usual dude-driven tropes was still pretty wild.
I have to say again, I have to give huge, huge props to Chuck Dixon and Jordan Gorfinkle who created and wrote the book prior to me, they set up the whole thing and a lot of the most powerful female stuff came from their run. I disagree with darn near everything political with Chuck but conservative or not, he put his money where his mouth is with Bop and wrote a book unlike anything else out there, that actually WAS empowering to female readers. It acknowledged they existed.
I didn’t build that, as the saying is goes…Chuck and Jordan did.
I am very proud of what we had in Bop, which was many, many female leads, full of their own agency and motivation, who could care about each other and disagree with each other in a way we almost never see in action stories in the media.
Answering the question…I was poor as a kid, lived on a farm with no tv in the middle of nowhere. Comics were a bit of a luxury. I would read any comic I got until it was in tatters, really.
The first comic that made me a FAN was a Justice League comic. I should have been hopelessly lost…it was the middle chapter of a three parter, I think. It had the Justice Society guest-starring. It had a million characters and tons of continuity. And I got HOOKED by that. They always say that stuff turns readers on, but it hooked me good.
I didn’t know comics were monthly. I didn’t realize that since I’d gotten the comic second hand, the rest of the story wouldn’t just BE there at the only store in town that sold comics. So I kept showing up waiting for it to be there.
I got inspired to get into the industry by lots of things…the great Devin Grayson was making comics, that made it seem like something women could actually do. But the big one is, I had a parody column that editors and creators liked, and they drafted me. I was reluctant at first, but now I’m glad!
I really, really love your work. It's so unusual in comics (or any scifi/fantasy medium) to see a Bechdel test pass, let alone stories about women that don't create ridiculous pedestals or offensive caricatures. I actually used Birds of Prey to get my frie
Thank you for the kind words!
I had a dream of what Bop could be, and fortunately, I had mostly female editors who were willing to stand by it in the early days when the idea of a female team book that didn’t use up all the usual dude-driven tropes was still pretty wild.
I have to say again, I have to give huge, huge props to Chuck Dixon and Jordan Gorfinkle who created and wrote the book prior to me, they set up the whole thing and a lot of the most powerful female stuff came from their run. I disagree with darn near everything political with Chuck but conservative or not, he put his money where his mouth is with Bop and wrote a book unlike anything else out there, that actually WAS empowering to female readers. It acknowledged they existed.
I didn’t build that, as the saying is goes…Chuck and Jordan did.
I am very proud of what we had in Bop, which was many, many female leads, full of their own agency and motivation, who could care about each other and disagree with each other in a way we almost never see in action stories in the media.
Answering the question…I was poor as a kid, lived on a farm with no tv in the middle of nowhere. Comics were a bit of a luxury. I would read any comic I got until it was in tatters, really.
The first comic that made me a FAN was a Justice League comic. I should have been hopelessly lost…it was the middle chapter of a three parter, I think. It had the Justice Society guest-starring. It had a million characters and tons of continuity. And I got HOOKED by that. They always say that stuff turns readers on, but it hooked me good.
I didn’t know comics were monthly. I didn’t realize that since I’d gotten the comic second hand, the rest of the story wouldn’t just BE there at the only store in town that sold comics. So I kept showing up waiting for it to be there.
I got inspired to get into the industry by lots of things…the great Devin Grayson was making comics, that made it seem like something women could actually do. But the big one is, I had a parody column that editors and creators liked, and they drafted me. I was reluctant at first, but now I’m glad!
I really, really love your work. It's so unusual in comics (or any scifi/fantasy medium) to see a Bechdel test pass, let alone stories about women that don't create ridiculous pedestals or offensive caricatures. I actually used Birds of Prey to get my frie
Thank you for the kind words!
I had a dream of what Bop could be, and fortunately, I had mostly female editors who were willing to stand by it in the early days when the idea of a female team book that didn’t use up all the usual dude-driven tropes was still pretty wild.
I have to say again, I have to give huge, huge props to Chuck Dixon and Jordan Gorfinkle who created and wrote the book prior to me, they set up the whole thing and a lot of the most powerful female stuff came from their run. I disagree with darn near everything political with Chuck but conservative or not, he put his money where his mouth is with Bop and wrote a book unlike anything else out there, that actually WAS empowering to female readers. It acknowledged they existed.
I didn’t build that, as the saying is goes…Chuck and Jordan did.
I am very proud of what we had in Bop, which was many, many female leads, full of their own agency and motivation, who could care about each other and disagree with each other in a way we almost never see in action stories in the media.
Answering the question…I was poor as a kid, lived on a farm with no tv in the middle of nowhere. Comics were a bit of a luxury. I would read any comic I got until it was in tatters, really.
The first comic that made me a FAN was a Justice League comic. I should have been hopelessly lost…it was the middle chapter of a three parter, I think. It had the Justice Society guest-starring. It had a million characters and tons of continuity. And I got HOOKED by that. They always say that stuff turns readers on, but it hooked me good.
I didn’t know comics were monthly. I didn’t realize that since I’d gotten the comic second hand, the rest of the story wouldn’t just BE there at the only store in town that sold comics. So I kept showing up waiting for it to be there.
I got inspired to get into the industry by lots of things…the great Devin Grayson was making comics, that made it seem like something women could actually do. But the big one is, I had a parody column that editors and creators liked, and they drafted me. I was reluctant at first, but now I’m glad!
Dammit.
Cass, COME BACK.
Dammit.
Cass, COME BACK.
terribletriplefeatures:
Chicks Love Capes
Photo by...
Thiiiiis…
is probably the sexiest thing I have ever seen.
Look at that. I say unto you. LOOK.
For god’s sake, does cosplay get any cooler than that?
Gail Simone's Blog
- Gail Simone's profile
- 1223 followers
