#comic book writer

[trippercrazy]

Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance

[yourdailyqueer]

Victor Nordahl

Gender: Non binary (he/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A 

Ethnicity: White - Norwegian

Occupation: Graphic artist, comic writer

[screamingeyepress]

Jamie Delano Talks Hellblazer, Writing, and Creative Freedom in Comics

From the Early Days of John Constantine to Novels and Creator-Owned Projects

Jaimie Delano is a British comics writer. He was part of the first post-Alan Moore “British Invasion” of writers which started to feature in American comics in the 1980s. Best known as the first writer of the comic book series Hellblazer, featuring John Constantine.

How did you get started in Comics?

Around 1980, I was looking for a way to stop being a taxi driver and realise my long-held ambition to earn a basic living through word-manipulation when a friend suggested comics might be a route to that objective and offered me some introductions to editors in the business.

When you started writing Hellblazer was it hard coming up with plots for a monthly horror series?

Writing – in any format on any title – is always hard, and anyone who says it isn’t is a liar. Blank-page terror, with deadlines looming, is a burdensome condition in which to place oneself. Writing is an awful chore… just one damn word after another until you reach The End. Which of course you never do. At least not while you’re still breathing.

What do you think of the adaptions of Hellblazer?

My old mum always said: If you can’t say anything, it’s better to say nothing at all. I watched the Keanu Reeves movie and didn’t like it; so I didn’t watch the TV stuff. People I respect have told me it was decent though.

Read On: https://www.screamingeyepress.com/interviews/jamie-delano/

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE MOST UN-KAWII MOVIE EVER MADE GETS THE MOST KAWAII-STYLE MOVIE POSTER EVER MADE.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1424x2016 -- Spotlight on a 2003 Japanese/Chirashi flyer and/or mini poster for the American biographical documentary comedy drama film "American Splendor," chronicling the life of comic book writer Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) and the comic book series of the same name.

Source: https://mx.pinterest.com/pin/150096600050778148.

[professorambrius]

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Stan Lee

A Happy Birthday in Heaven to the legendary and "the Man" himself, Stan Lee.

Comic Book writer, Pop Culture Icon, and King of the Cameo, Stan Lee would have turned 102 years old today.

EXCELSIOR!

[dissvicious]

two months ago my latest book came out after 3 years of work, a 240 pages watercolor painting graphic novel about a very harsh topic. it is selling well and getting really good reviews - and I'm proud of it, it's a good book and it helped a lot of people by the reviews I'm getting.

and instead of working on the promotion and else I decided to cut off all my professional networks and involve myself at 100% in my one piece hyperfixation, discovering the anime, making an AU and a webcomic. It's infinitely less good than everything I wrote before, it's often poorly made and just shitpost, and the first time I write in another language than french

And it was the best fucking professional decision I ever made.

[raymondsalvador]

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[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I remember when Larry Hama was promoting the Snake Eyes movie I was baffled since the movie does a disservice to Snake Eyes as a character. But a few weeks ago I heard that he's doing signatures to help pay for his medical bills because he has very bad arthritis to the point he can't draw much anymore. It's a sad trend that many older comic book creators had to resort to this because they got screwed over by the companies they worked for. Another example would be Peter David.

This made me wonder if he promoted the Snake Eyes movie just to help pay his medical bills because Hasbro fucked him over.

[gwiazdaerydanu]

Talentless Hack Comic Book "Writer" Feigns Not Understanding Why COMICS ARE DE*D!!!

An attention seeking mainstream comic writing failure takes to social media to wonder why their industry has been destroyed!! I have a few ideas on that.

[esonetwork]

The Earth Station One Podcast - Comic Writer / Artist Ron Randall

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The Earth Station One Podcast - Comic Writer / Artist Ron Randall

Mike and Mike chat with comic writer and artist Ron Randall about his journey from attending the Kubert School to working on a number of DC comics (including one written by Alan Moore) to crowdfunding his creator-owned project, Trekker. But even Mercy cannot save him from the Geek Seat. All this, along with Angela’s A Geek Girls Take and Shout Outs.

We want to hear from you! Feedback is always welcome. Please write to us at feedback@earthstationone.com and subscribe and rate the show on Apple Podcast, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, wherever fine podcasts are found, and now we can be found on our own YouTube Channel.

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[mollysunder]

Sky and Viktor's relationship is such a horror movie to me. You've got a man who was frustrated by the limitations placed on his life that were out of his control, like his class, mobility, and general health. Despite everything, he manages to rise beyond his station and avoid being an assistant for the rest of his life.

Then you've got a woman from the same background who admires him and all that he's accomplished in spite of the similar class based prejudices they faced all the while she's his assistant. She works up the courage to take leap of faith and reach out to him with her own research to show what's possible if they worked together as equals. And then he gets her killed!

Sky's death isn't the end of it because while it affects Viktor it is in no way meaningful to Sky's life or value as a person whatsoever. Even the pendant he wears in her memory is based on the design of her notebook, but that was just her notebook's cover, she probably bought it from a store and the design itself is probably mass produced. Why not use Sky's signature that was in her letter and in the notebook, the thing part if the notebook with real value?

Then Sky's brought back in s2 and she really only exists to be Viktor's assistant again, who he kills, again! But this time it's different because this time Viktor's making a conscious decision to look Sky in the eye and kill her... to prove he's changed.

In the middle of all this, in no way has Sky's death been mourned by her family or anyone else who could have known her. Jayce wasn't affected by the reveal, he didn't think it was important to tell Heimerdinger, or anyone who knew her. Nothing about her life, death, or disappearance has spurred any emotional reaction or even curiosity about what happened to her.

Sky's new life was also extremely isolated because she became further tied to him (in some ways you could say she was defined by him). Viktor never mentioned Sky to anyone in the material plane during his commune arc, so she only exists to him and she has no way to communicate with others, she's just there for Viktor's sake.

Then in the finale we learn this all a part of a big time loop where Viktor actively set the wheels in motion to have him and Jayce create hextech together, but if everything follows as is, that means Sky is violently killed in those timelines too. That means Viktor weighed the costs and decided over and over and over again that Sky was expendable enough to let her die for his plan to work eventually. How is that not murder at this point?

What's worse is that post-finale Sky's humanity is a point of dispute amongst the fandom, the VAs, and the writers themselves. Sky's the hexcore manipulating Viktor. No, Sky's a manifestion of Viktor's guilt. No, she's actually supposed to represent his humanity/conscious made physical. And in none of these arguments do they discuss Sky as a person, she's just an object meant to serve Viktor both in the narrative sense and literal sense as his assistant.

The most absolutely maddening part is that with Viktor's new bio on the League site, not only have most traces of Viktor had been scrubbed by Piltover's archive, but Sky's life has been completely wiped. Her death was implied to have been swept under the rug, and only described as the "loss of life" consequence from his Hexcore experiment.

Viktor was afraid of dying a senseless death (created by the conditions Piltover condemned his birth to) in obscurity and then he turned it into Sky's destiny.

[themirepirate]

was reading Sherlock holmes and this popped into my head

[yourdailyqueer]

Crystal Frasier

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: N/A 

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Artist, comic writer, game designer

Note: Is Intersex

[screamingeyepress]

J.M. DeMatteis Interview: Writing Marvel & DC’s Biggest Heroes

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, J. M. DeMatteis was a professional musician and rock music journalist before entering the comic book field. DeMatteis has written almost all of the major DC and Marvel icons—including memorable runs on Spider-Man (his classic “Kraven’s Last Hunt” was voted number one in a 2012 Comic Book Resources poll of Spider-Man stories and number twelve in a 2017 CBR poll of the greatest comic book stories of all time.

Read the interview here: https://www.screamingeyepress.com/interviews/j-m-dematteis/

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

GET YOUR HEALTHY DOSE OF AMERICAN STYLE SPLENDOR RIGHT HERE -- THE VERY FINEST.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on late, great American comic book writer Harvey Pekar, posing with a copy of "American Splendor" Vol. 1 #5 (c. 1980), in his Cleveland Heights, Ohio, home, c. 1986. 📸: Unknown/undisclosed.

ROBERT CRUMB: "You turned yourself into a comic hero?"

HARVEY PEKAR: "Sorta, yeah. But no idealized shit. No phony bullshit. The real thing, y'know? Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."

-- "American Splendor" (2003), written & directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini

Sources: https://tytempletonart.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/harvey-pekar-part-1 & Worcester Telegram.

[professorambrius]

Remembering Stan Lee

Today marks 6 years since we lost the Man himself, the incredible Stan Lee.