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"My name is Oliver Queen. For five years I was stranded on a package with only one goal: GET OUTTA OF HERE!!!"
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I posted a link on facebook to that article about not reading white cis male authors for a year. Immediately a family friend (white male) responded with: "'I thought: What if I only read stories by a certain type of author?' Well that just sounds prejudice." What is your best response to people who claim that such articles are exclusive and harmful?
The best thing that ever happened to me as a writer (and as a reader) was becoming a book reviewer, and having a monthly book column of books of all kinds, because it forced me to read out of my comfort zone. I knew all about SF and fantasy, and precious little about anything else. Suddenly I was reading everything: translated novels by Nobel Prize Winners, and gay porn, feminist novels and thick thrillers, shopping-and-fucking bestsellers and obscure literary curiosae, essays and classics and everything that publishers published. My horizons broadened, and what I wrote improved.
I’d suggest that the idea of not reading books by (whitecismaleauthors) for a year isn’t exclusive. It’s not saying boycott books by people like me, or never read us again. It’s saying, take a year out of your life and go and read books by people you’ve not encountered before.
I’d cheerfully take it further: read other genres, too, on your year away. Go and poke around in the areas of bookshops you don’t normally visit. Invest it in opening your head and letting new things and people in.
That’s not about exclusivity or prejudice or hate. It’s suggesting that you read new authors, visit new shelves and make new friends.
Okay, I have to tell my STORY OF COMPLETE AGONY AND PAIN regarding New Frontier. You will likely be amused at my complete inability to make a simple decision.
First, I’ll set the scene.
Darwyn Cooke had just come off of some well-respected works, and was a favorite with creators and a cult favorite with fans, but he hadn’t yet broken through to anything like the level of success and respect he has now. Simply put, the guy was (and is) a genius, but at that point, he hadn’t yet had that breakthrough smash.
On top of that, he had a reputation as being intimidating, someone who didn’t suffer fools gladly and I remember some editors actually being scared of him.
I had really enjoyed his work, Catwoman and Batman: Ego. I thought he was great, a cross between Jack Kirby and Ed Brubaker and Bruce Timm, but with a viewpoint all his own. I had mainly seen his art, but reading Batman: Ego showed he could write like a bastard, so I was a fan.
But nothing, NOTHING, prepared me for the first issue of New Frontier. I had gotten the impression from some of the solicit material that people at DC were excited about it, but not positive what it’s commercial chances would be. But that first issue blew my socks out of my head (or however that phrase goes). I hadn’t read anything like it, it felt epic and fresh, and it was very clear immediately that this was one of those books, like Dark Knight and Watchmen and Kingdom Come, that not only tell a thrilling tale in a new way, but set a new touchstone, a turning point somehow, for what superhero stories could be.
In short, it’s a comic that looks like a comic, reads like a comic, but FEELS like a novel, in a way that most of the big epic books of the past could only dream of.
It’s hard to remember this now, but incredibly, reaction was VERY mixed in the first couple days. Quite a few reviewers and commentators did not get it (at first reading, many came around later, to their credit). They seemed to feel that the book was not what they had been expecting, I guess. I couldn’t believe it. It was crazy. I felt this was the best new comic in years.
So it was kind of my mission. For a couple days online, it was all I could talk about. I argued with reviewers, I posted links everywhere, and generally made a total jackass of myself (what ELSE is new?) trying to tell people to get this book because DAMN! It’s amazing.
Don’t get me wrong, cream rises to the top and my ranting likely only turned people off from the book. I claim no credit for changing even a single mind. The book is just so good that I think it overwhelmed people at first. In fact, I vastly prefer it to Watchmen…it’s not even close.
Anyway, somehow, Darwyn found out about my ranting everywhere, and he sent me a short but sweet note, just saying that I was the only pro who was going around talking about the book and it meant a lot to him. I had never met him, but I sent back a typically gushing fan note.
Then we were at a convention together. I THINK it was WizardWorld LA. He was in the booth and I was in the booth and we both had crazy lines and I didn’t get to introduce myself or say hello right away. A little while later, he’s behind me, and he says, Hi, Gail, I’m Darwyn, and gives me a little smooch on the cheek, and tells me that it meant a lot to him, what I’d said, and he had a present for me which he would bring by later. It was such a sweet gesture, and he was so soft-spoken (Darwyn has a crazy sense of humor and once terrified Dan DiDio by waking Dan up from a dead sleep wearing a Winnie the Pooh costume, but he was terribly kind to me that day).
I was kind of on a cloud. I hadn’t been a pro all that long and I knew that Darwyn was one of those rare guys who makes masterpieces in his spare time. Just that he knew who I was felt very, very cool.
So, later that same day, Darwyn comes up with his huge art portfolio, and he says, “Gail, you have to choose.”
What? Choose what?
Here’s what he did. He had drawn me a gorgeous, gorgeous drawing of Black Canary, just her head and shoulders, on a huge piece of artboard, bigger than a page of comic art (which as most of you know, is much bigger than a comics page, it gets shrunk down for printing). It was simple but stunning, and he’d drawn it just for me. It’s glamour style, like a Lana Turner headshot or something.
He’d drawn that just for me.
OR.
I could choose ANY original page of art from New Frontier.
I want you guys to think about that for a second. Remember, I had only been a pro for a while, and had only JUST let my cosmetology license lapse. And here was this genius saying, go ahead, any page you want from your favorite comic. You want the Wonder Woman in Asia page? You want Superman? You want the Thanagarian spaceship? Adam Strange? Steel as John Henry?
You know that scene in Karate Kid where Mr. Miyagi points to his yard full of cars and tells Daniel, simply, “Choose”? This was that, exactly. I mean…guh buh duh? What? Are you freaking KIDDING me?
I looked through the folder and it just seemed like every page was better than the last and wanted to go home with me and sleep on my pillow. Some of these pages really spoke to me, but on the other hand, he had drawn the Black Canary sketch for me specifically.
I must have looked like an idiot. I asked my husband, who also loved the book, what I should do and he had this look like, “Good LORD, don’t look at ME!”
In the end, I took the Black Canary sketch. As much as the New Frontier pages meant to me, they belonged to the world, and the BC sketch was meant to be mine, it was a gift from a master to someone just learning, and the kindness of the gesture has lasted ever since.
Every day, I pass this little gallery of original art that artists have given me, people like Ed Benes, Michael Golden, Eduardo Barretto, Alvin Lee, Nicola Scott, Talent Caldwell, and Bruce Timm. And every day it makes me happy to work in this industry with people like that, talented people who are so generous and amazing.
Thank you, Darwyn!
Funny couple postscripts.
First, I had hubby buy the sturdiest clear page protector we could find, and I didn’t trust the airlines so I carried that huge sketch everywhere I went from the moment I left the hotel, to the airport, on the flight, and on the way home. People kept stopping and saying, “Oh, it’s Marilyn!” and by the end I was saying, “No, it’s better, it’s the goddamn BLACK CANARY.”
Made it home without a bend or crease!
I forgot to say the best part, Darwyn said, “We HAVE to work together on something." It hasn’t happened yet, but that’s on my comic book bucket list for sure.
One other story I read recently that’s funny. I know this sounds obnoxious but the comp books we get from dc can really pile up over the course of the years. Apparently, Alan Moore had been receiving these books and finally said, "Please don’t send any more DC comp books to me, thank you, they are cluttering up my home.”
“Except New Frontier. You can keep sending that.”
Alan was right.
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Hemera, Start!
Um ano atrás, na data desta postagem, o nosso amado irmão e sócio Lucas Jock nos deixou. Mas antes de partir ele nos presenteou com o seu incrível legado, sua generosa contribuição e o sonho de continuar fazendo jogos com o mesmo amor e entusiasmo de sempre.
Então, é com grande motivação e a responsabilidade de honrar o compromisso com o nosso sonho conjunto que iniciamos o projeto mais ambicioso de nossas vidas até agora, o desenvolvimento do próximo título da TawStudio Entertainment: Hemera - Epiphany of the Mind.
Hemera é um jogo de plataforma 2D com foco em combate e exploração, onde damos vida a personagens com ricas animações quadro à quadro e cenários cuidadosamente ilustrados. Neste Devlog, iremos postar periodicamente algumas etapas do desenvolvimento do projeto e mais detalhes acerca do design e conteúdo, por isso, sintam-se à vontade para nos acompanhar nesta jornada e dar o seu feedback.
Nos próximos meses trabalharemos insanamente em uma versão demo, por isso, fiquem ligados!
O Sonho continua!
One year ago, in this very day, our beloved brother and partner Lucas Jock left us to shine brighter in heaven. But before his departure, he gifted us with his great legacy, a very generous contribution and the dream to keep on making games with the same love and enthusiasm we always did.
Then, it´s with great motivation and the responsability to honor our commitment to our common dream that we´ve initiated the development of our most ambicious project so far, TawStudio Entertainment´s next title: Hemera - Epiphany of the Mind.
Hemera is a 2D platformer game focused in combat and exploration features, where we bring to life characters with rich hand drawn animations and very carefully illustrated environment.
In this Devlog, we´ll periodically post some steps of the development and more details on the design and content of the project, so please follow us and keep track of this journey. Your feedback is more then wellcome! :)
The next months will be of insane hardwork and devotion to the project in order to bring up a DEMO as soon as possible, so stay tuned!
The Dream is on!
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When your spouse is a voice actor….
Harry Shum Jr: Alright I’m about to cook some dinner right no- Shelby Rabara [in her Peridot voice]: No one wants to eat your dinner you clod.
sometimes, even the most cheerful needs to be cheered up
so!! i really wanted to draw Mabel hugging and being really affectionate to her family, and generally just cheering them up, but then i was like ‘well, if she cheers everyone else up, who’d cheer up her up?’ and the last pic was born!!
if you’ll notice, each patch of grass has different thins in them!! one has yellow dandelions, one has white ones, and one has mushrooms. and the last pic has all three of them, to symbolize the family all coming together
it’s kinda hard to tell, but Ford is kissing Mabel on the head, haha
(i really like drawing Mabel in these colors)
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