Gail Simone

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Gail Simone (born July 29, 1974 ) is an American comic book writer . She specializes in action comedies and is the current writer of the Birds of Prey series for DC Comics .

Career

Gail Simone studied theater at the University of Oregon in the 1980s. In 1999 Simone started her website Women in Refrigerators , on which she devotes herself to comic scenes in which women are portrayed as victims of violence or similar plot elements and used to make the male superhero take action. She later started her column You'll All Be Sorry! on the Comic Book Resources website. The topics ranged from short, satirical summaries of old and new comic series to parodies of fan fiction . Simone started working for Bongo Comics , writing stories for Simpsons Comics , one of the annuals of the Treehouse of Horror Specials, and for the Bart Simpson comic. She also wrote for the Simpsons - comic strips .

From 2002 to 2003 Simone was working at the publishing house Marvel Comics and wrote for the series Deadpool , which later Agent X was. She left Marvel after a conflict with the Agent X editor and went to DC Comics , where her Birds of Prey was transferred. Simone later took over Action Comics from writer Chuck Austen for a short time . Simone worked on other projects, including the Villains United miniseries , in which she revived the character Catman . She also wrote a two-issue story arc for the ongoing Teen Titans comic book series.

She has also written for Action Comics and Legion of Super-Heroes , a Rose and Thorn miniseries, Killer Princesses (with Lea Hernandez ) for Oni Press , the Gus Beezer specials for Marvel Comics and Gen 13 for Wildstorm . From 2006 to 2008, Simone worked on Atom with cartoonists John Byrne and Trevor Scott and wrote the episode Double Date for the Justice League Unlimited television series . In 2007 she wrote an episode of the short film series Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series , an adaptation of Tomb Raider . from 2008 she wrote for Wonder Woman and Secret Six . In 2010 she was the author of an episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave And The Bold .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Gene Gustines: Wonder Woman Gets a New Voice, and It's Female , New York Times , Nov. 27, 2007
  2. ↑ Interview with Silver Bullet Comicbooks ( Memento from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Interview on Gail Simone's work for Tomb Raider Animated Series

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SURNAME Simone, Gail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1974