Comments on: Publishing: Is this a man’s world?

By: Delfina Coughlin

Delfina Coughlin — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:50:45 +0000

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By: Writing Guide

Writing Guide — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:14:33 +0000

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By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:46:41 +0000

Alexa – Wait a week and you’ll get to see Gail Simone’s announcement. She was hinting at “something exciting” next week on her Facebook profile today, and rumblings at DC have been that a huge, post-”Blackest Night” announcement is happening at that time. That said, I’d have preferred it were Simonson; Simone’s work is really hit or miss, and while she has some really notable hits, she also has some REALLY notable misses for my money.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:02:36 +0000

But Matt, even JK Rowling had to resort to using her initials to fool people (in the beginning, at least) about her gender. Stephenie Meyer got to use her real name because, well, there was no getting around that a woman wrote those books. They were teenage vampire romance, I don’t think anyone would have believed a man wrote those.

And Tom, you’re an idiot. Show me a woman who has been ALLOWED to do what Bendis and Johns have done, to have significant control over an entire superhero universe. And you can’t tell me none of them are up to it– right off the bat, I’d trust Gail Simone and Louise Simonson to come up with amazing universe-wide stories, but it will probably never happen.

By: Matt M.

Matt M. — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:08:05 +0000

Stephanie Meyer and J.K. Rowling are ROFLing. If you think awards matter, great. If you manage to connect with an audience, however, they’re precisely meaningless.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:24:47 +0000

Yeah, this is kind of what I’ve bee thinking/saying lately. There’s such homogeneity in the Marvel and DC’s go-to creators. And for the ones who aren’t Johns or Bendis, the majority of fresh names that come to Marvel and DC are male as well.

In mainstream comics stories, even with great comics with characters like Batwoman and Wonder Woman, the majority of the time men are the default heroes, the default point of view. It’s possible that that ingrained idea (it’s ingrained not just in the comics industry, but all over society) carries over to the idea of male comics creators being the default as well.

I admittedly don’t know too much about how people break into the mainstream comics industry, but as far as I can tell it seems to be a matter of who you know, and getting the chance to show those people the talent you’ve got.

If women are seen as unusual, as perpetual oddities that are by default viewed as outsiders and assumed to be inferior because of it, they’ll never be able to have the same effectiveness as men in networking, making the right connections and finding their way to success in mainstream comics.

By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:44:23 +0000

@Kyle Garrett – One of the ways that comics tend to be different from the mainstream book publishers, though, is that many (not all) of our awards ceremonies are pretty egalitarian in terms of who gets recognized. Things like Superman and Batman can win awards in comics, whereas there’s nobody handing out awards to Roberts–but there’s also nobody handing out (many) awards to Stephen King, either.

By: RJT

RJT — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:15:41 +0000

“Because they don’t bloody DESERVE IT! Let these women achieve HALF of what Bendis OR Johns have over the years and then come crying about bias. Whatever happened to EARNING praise and not having it expected automatically because you have a vadge (except in Rachel Pollack’s case)?”

You’re going to make a woman very happy one day.

By: Kyle Garret

Kyle Garret — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:04:40 +0000

Tom, that’s moronic. Nocenti and Simonson both wrote some classic stories and Simonson, at least, wrote X-Factor AND the New Mutants, but never got the kind of credit that Claremont did.
Regardless, go to some research on the subject. The comic book industry has been a boys’ club for decades, and for much of that a WHITE boys’ club. Diversity has been hard to come by at the big publishers.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:10:07 +0000

Typo in the headline.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:56:08 +0000

“Publishing: It this a man’s world?”

The hell does “it this” mean?

“you have diehards like Louise Simonson and Ann Nocenti and the return of talent like Kathryn Immonen and Devin Grayson, but you aren’t regularly seeing them in the spotlight the same way you are a Bendis or a Johns.”

Because they don’t bloody DESERVE IT! Let these women achieve HALF of what Bendis OR Johns have over the years and then come crying about bias. Whatever happened to EARNING praise and not having it expected automatically because you have a vadge (except in Rachel Pollack’s case)?

By: Janie Marin

Janie Marin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:46:50 +0000

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By: Janie Marin

Janie Marin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:46:14 +0000

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By: Kyle Garret

Kyle Garret — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:14:54 +0000

You’re mixing the issue. Baggott raises the question (and then ignores it), but the issue isn’t whether or not you have to be or write like a man to get PUBLISHED, it’s whether you have to be or write like a man to get awards for writing. Publishing itself isn’t the issue, it’s the institutions that choose the supposed “best” books.
So, yes, people are still eating up Nora Roberts’ books like crazy. Baggott’s point is that no one is giving Roberts’ any credit for that.