Gail Simone's Blog, page 965
July 27, 2012
fuckyeahwhocharted:
Batgirl 11: Heart of Cold Steel
Just picked...
Batgirl 11: Heart of Cold Steel
Just picked up the latest Batgirl… and so sorry Kulap, um, I mean Katharsis… it seems Gail gave you a mouthful of Babs’ knee.
For those new to Batgirl, book 10 (where Katharsis is introduced) is a great place to pick up this new Knightfall storyline. And it only gets better in 11. Give them a look - check out your local comic book shop and give ‘em a little business - I’m sure they’ll be happy to see you - and you’ll be amazed at some of the awesome stories and artwork that can be found there!
It’s Kulap’s own fault!
kryptongirl:
Only 11 hours left to pledge your support for...
Only 11 hours left to pledge your support for Halloween Eve on Kickstarter! Really want to pledge $20 so I can get signed copies of the script, too.
Reblogging.
Amy Reeder is a goddamn phenomenon and I am betting this book is better than ice cream made of MORE ice cream.
Today’s the last day to bid, there’s not much time.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1214128832/halloween-eve-comic-book
ealperin:
gailsimone:
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
AND THEN THEY KISS
Seriously
How is it...
AND THEN THEY KISS
Seriously
How is it possible that these two are not girlfriends?
Just look at them here
Dinah
We all know there is no way on earth that you are going to be sleeping on the couch tonight ;D
Why, I am ever so certain I have no idea what you mean.
Oh, Gail. ^___^ You’re the biggest Babsinah shipper out of all of us! :D You just knowthat
^___^
THEY ARE JUST PLAYING BOGGLE!
ORACLE IS WINNING!
Happy Birthday Nicola Scott!
confessionsofacomicshopaholic:
Today is Nicola Scott’s birthday and she is one of my absolute favorite comic book artists and thanks to another awesome lady Gail Simone’s post I was inspired to do my own post on my favorite art from Nicola. It’s actually very fitting because Gail Simone and Nicola Scott work so well together in my mind, and the minds of others I’m sure.
My first encounter with her art was in Gail’s Birds of Prey, of course. I loved the way she draws women of all sizes. Her Big Barda is probably my favorite.
Next up is Secret Six because let’s face it, when I think of the Six, Nicola’s art is the first thing that comes to mind.
My absolute favorite page of her art in all of her Secret Six run has to be this following page combining two of my great loves: Wonder Woman and Secret Six. Every panel blew me away.
Speaking of Wonder Woman, she draws Diana so beautifully. Her work, once again with Gail, on Wonder Woman was amazing as usual and here is one of my favorite representations of the Amazon princess by Nicola.
Last but not least, I really enjoyed Nicola’s run on Teen Titans. Her Ravages is probably my favorite. The way she can convey movement and action through her panels are pretty impressive.
Her Teen Titans are probably the best I’ve seen since, oh I don’t know, George Perez!
And because of that I jumped at the chance of owning some original art by the very talented, always amazing Nicola Scott. Here is the very last page of Teen Titans #100.
Happy Nicola Scott Appreciation Day everyone!
I don’t want to make a post about my comic sister about me, but that silent Secret Six page took me HOURS to write, without a bit of dialogue. It was incredibly complex, and with some other artists, I wouldn’t even have tried, knowing it would be beyond their capabilities.
Nicole, of course, nailed it immediately.
http://theharlequinrose.tumblr.com/po...
No matter how much I may-or-may-not end up enjoying the new Batman when I finally get to see it, I’m still still right pissed that they cast lilly-white-as-the-driven-snow-Britlander Tom Hardy for Bane.
As a Latino myself, I’ll say this, there are lilly-white-as-the-driven-snow Latinos. I’m dark as my native islander genes are strong, but my grandfather was whiter than most white people and had bright blue eyes. The same goes for my maternal great grandfather.
Don’t forget that Latino’s have strong Spaniard roots due to them having trouble keeping it in their pants.
And while yes, they could and should have cast somebody of Latin descent, rather than a Brit (not like people haven’t done this before, such as casting a Jewish man to play the Spaniard in a Princess bride or all the Brits they cast to play Romans when they could just as easily cast Italian and Greek actors), complaining about the casting based only on skin color is rather ignorant on Latin culture.
Of course I know there are pale Latinos, there are pale people of just about every race out there, there are also darker white people. But this isn’t like the people who were complaining that the metis boy who played Aang in the last airbender looked too much like a white person (Metis people being pretty underrepresented in the media as well), this pretty much the exact definition of whitewashing a character. I didn’t say “I’m disappointed the actor for Bane had a melanin deficiency”, I said “I’m angry they made a character who was Latino in the source material into a white and British guy.” It was a big blockbuster role that could have gone to an underrepresented group, and instead Nolan gave it to another one of his white British BFFs. Not unlike when he did the exact same thing to Ra’s Al Ghul by flipping him from Arab warlord to Irish ninja. Are there European looking Middle Easterners out there? Yes! Does that make it okay to give Liam Neeson the role and erase any kind of connection to the middle East he might have (besides the Arabic name they didn’t pronounce right)? Neeson’s a great actor and all, but not Really, no.
I’m not really sure why you’re further defending it by saying “other movies do it”, because that just proves that yeah, it’s a pretty pervasive problem in Hollywood. I can say that I for one have been involved in some pretty drawn-out discussions over where this Western Media idea that all Grecians were the most Anglo Saxon lookin’ individuals on the planet came from (we ended up settling on the idea that it must have had something to do with Shakespeare).
There is no lack of WASPy guys running around in movies, they don’t really need help being hammered into even more roles.
hey you know what’s cool casting and judging actors based on acting merit
Did you happen to see the response of some fans when Idris Elba was cast as Heimdall?
http://theharlequinrose.tumblr.com/po...
No matter how much I may-or-may-not end up enjoying the new Batman when I finally get to see it, I’m still still right pissed that they cast lilly-white-as-the-driven-snow-Britlander Tom Hardy for Bane.
As a Latino myself, I’ll say this, there are lilly-white-as-the-driven-snow Latinos. I’m dark as my native islander genes are strong, but my grandfather was whiter than most white people and had bright blue eyes. The same goes for my maternal great grandfather.
Don’t forget that Latino’s have strong Spaniard roots due to them having trouble keeping it in their pants.
And while yes, they could and should have cast somebody of Latin descent, rather than a Brit (not like people haven’t done this before, such as casting a Jewish man to play the Spaniard in a Princess bride or all the Brits they cast to play Romans when they could just as easily cast Italian and Greek actors), complaining about the casting based only on skin color is rather ignorant on Latin culture.
Of course I know there are pale Latinos, there are pale people of just about every race out there, there are also darker white people. But this isn’t like the people who were complaining that the metis boy who played Aang in the last airbender looked too much like a white person (Metis people being pretty underrepresented in the media as well), this pretty much the exact definition of whitewashing a character. I didn’t say “I’m disappointed the actor for Bane had a melanin deficiency”, I said “I’m angry they made a character who was Latino in the source material into a white and British guy.” It was a big blockbuster role that could have gone to an underrepresented group, and instead Nolan gave it to another one of his white British BFFs. Not unlike when he did the exact same thing to Ra’s Al Ghul by flipping him from Arab warlord to Irish ninja. Are there European looking Middle Easterners out there? Yes! Does that make it okay to give Liam Neeson the role and erase any kind of connection to the middle East he might have (besides the Arabic name they didn’t pronounce right)? Neeson’s a great actor and all, but not Really, no.
I’m not really sure why you’re further defending it by saying “other movies do it”, because that just proves that yeah, it’s a pretty pervasive problem in Hollywood. I can say that I for one have been involved in some pretty drawn-out discussions over where this Western Media idea that all Grecians were the most Anglo Saxon lookin’ individuals on the planet came from (we ended up settling on the idea that it must have had something to do with Shakespeare).
There is no lack of WASPy guys running around in movies, they don’t really need help being hammered into even more roles.
You said it better, but yeah, I mean…this character was created specifically as Latino, in a series where (if I am remembering correctly) the only other Latinos of note were a criminal and a crooked cop.
I love the trilogy, but I can’t see any good reason to whitewash Bane.
I'll so offend, to make offence a skill: Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American...
Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,
Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,
Conceivably, if the book had not reached the…
WHAT WORLD DOES THIS PERSON LIVE IN.
ceebee-eebee:
In honor of Nicola Scott’s bday, I think it’s...
In honor of Nicola Scott’s bday, I think it’s about time I post my pieces from her again. Because they never get old. ::happy sigh:: HAPPY BDAY, NIC! YOU’RE THE BEST!
Again, is there some subtext here I am missing?
WHAT IS THE SUBTEXT?
palaceoffunk:
“Not too many years ago, I can imagine that this story might have generated heated...
“Not too many years ago, I can imagine that this story might have generated heated comments about the sexualized fantasies about black men. And yeah, there was one. And having checked out that blogger, I strongly suspect that he belongs to a much older generation than young adults. Otherwise, I’m happily surprised to say there has been not a blip of protest. So what does the lack of any racial outrage or puzzlement or fervor amidst the tremendous rain of positive reviews possibly say? Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, perhaps there might be some backlash. The first young African American reader who responded to me loved the book. But then, she’s the kind of free spirit who would eschew limiting herself to a single category. Or perhaps — and this is what I hope — the YA generation sees race in a way that is unique to them, unique in our history. After all, they have arrived on the scene decades past the integration of schools and Jim Crow, even well past the days of The Cosby Show. Soap-mouth-washing words that were forbidden in my youth now populate rap songs so often I wonder if, happily, they have lost their vile connotations. I have endeavored to raise my children with a color-free mentality. My son once mentioned that his color was white while mine was tan. This was said with no more feeling than if he’d been describing the different colors of our bedrooms. No doubt most kids today would laugh at or find puzzling an incident that I now see influenced the way I thought about race in a blink of an instant.”
—
Victoria Foyt, excerpt from Interracial Relationships Seen Through Eyes of Young Adults.
She seems to be operating under the misconception that racism and races are a thing of the past. This new generation does not understand racism and that colorblindness is a way in which we can move forward in this racism-free future.
Racism does still exist. Colorblindness is simply a tool that erases the idea of racism and the experiences related to it. You’re not helping, Ms. Foyt. You’re a part of the problem.
And your friends, your editors, the people who did not stop you from doing this are to. You should step back and listen to the people who are telling you this is racist and you should not dismiss them as ‘too old to understand this new generation’ or ‘too closed minded for the genre’.
The way this book is described, it sounds like you’re allowing us (white people) to perpetuated damning stereotypes and racist fears about a world run by people of color.
You CANNOT turn racism on it’s head and write about the experiences of racism from the white perspective because you DO NOT know those experiences. We’re white. We never will. We cannot understand them because we will never suffer through them.
We can pretend to be colorblind because the effects of racism don’t hurt us, but they’re still screwing over everyone else. That’s privilege—our inability to see how we benefit, harm and affect things like this because they’re not immediately visible to us as white people.
And if I’ve said something wrong, someone call me out. Similarly, I’m sure someone more informed and articulate can tackle this.
(via curiousmeans)
Yep, thank you. Also, that dig of “if such a category still exists” in regards to a Black community of readers show, once again, how absolutely ignorant and vile she is. Has she even walked down the aisle of a book story to the “Black Literature” section? We didn’t put ourselves there, sequestered away from the rest of the books. You put a Black face on the cover, have it written by a Black author, and it becomes “Black lit.” You put a girl masquerading in blackface, written by a white author, and all of a sudden it’s universal YA lit.
Racism is still here you asshole. You’re contributing to it.
“I’m raising my kids as colorblind, so here’s a bunch of blackface in a book about race race race and by the way, race, and more blackface, and this one girl I totally know who is black loved it (you wouldn’t know her, she lives in Canada).
Also, I am going to build my defense up against criticism that I haven’t received yet, is everyone cool with that? Thanks!
Ps. More blackface.”
July 26, 2012
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