Comments | greygirlbeast: "And the fact you're always waking in the night, night."

greygirlbeast

"And the fact you're always waking in the night, night."

Mar 31, 2012 13:26

This isn't The Hunger Games icon I want, but I don't think the one I want exists, and I haven't had time to make it. So, this is my "placeholder."

If you've not read this article - "White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in The Hunger Games," by Anna Holmes - over at the New Yorker website, then you ought stop reading this silly and, ultimately ( Read more... )

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aarongp March 31 2012, 21:31:29 UTC

Yesterday, Rachel Edidin - my editor at Dark Horse - tweeted a link to this photograph:

Wow. Such a great looking cover. I even love the typography.

And there's Dancy. BIG. And it sort of freaks me out, in a good way, seeing this.

And congrats again on having all this happen on your own terms. I'm rapt that this project ended up at Dark Horse as the majority of titles I read are Dark Horse titles.

There's something marvellous about being able to collect a new title right from its first issue as it is being published. I recently did this with the first 50 issue run of the Dark Horse Conan title. It was the first time--for various reasons--that I'd managed to do this.

Alabaster will be my second.

opalblack April 1 2012, 00:21:48 UTC

This whole Hunger Games thing has put me off ever writing a white/Caucasian character in anything, ever.

papersteven April 1 2012, 02:34:57 UTC

I want that giant Dancy!

chris_walsh April 1 2012, 04:38:55 UTC

I'm a sucker for - nay, a slave to - option number two, which means you'll rarely find identical versions of my stories in different publications.

So it's more like a tune-up. Getting under the story's hood and turning a few screws, instead of rebuilding it from the chassis up. (Whoa. I sound like I actually know how to tune up a car.)

Out of curiosity, have you ever had a moment like what Harlan talked about with "Paladin of the Lost Hour," where he eventually realized that the first-published version had exactly the wrong action, so he rewrote accordingly?

highway_west April 1 2012, 06:49:47 UTC

Sorry about your cat. :(

I'm confused about the Rue issue. Am I just completely misremembering the entire book? I read it last year and maybe I am misremembering. Wasn't she supposed to be a black girl?