[...] been thinking about the discussion of whether the NY Times was incorrect in calling Gail Simone “the first woman to serve as ‘ongoing writer’ in the character’s 66-year [...]

That presumes you take my word for it, of course.

kdb

But thanks for confirming your penis. Now I can stop asking people.

You mean the one I wrote?

I would assume they wouldn’t count that based on the fact that the primary writer had a penis, though Trina and I did talk through the story ahead of time and it was built around villains she chose that she fondly remembered from her youth. And of course, neither Trina nor I did that book as a regular or ongoing assignment. Glad you liked it, though!

Mindy Newell, however, was indeed the regular writer for six months pre-Crisis.

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But the writer did a nice job, he was a very intense and dedicated reporter, and a very likable guy, as well.

But certainly, I feel bad that it looks like the achievements of Mindy and others are being sort of plowed over, and I’m going to do my best to make sure that impression is not perpetuated in the future.

Best,

Gail

::sigh:: Sorry about that,
Tim Liebe
“Where’s the friggin’ DELETE POST key, anyway?”

It’s the Mainstream Media condescending to write about a non-mainstream culture again - and totally bollixing the details… again.

Best,
Tim Liebe
“Did you know that Gail Simone was the first woman to ever read a superhero comic…?” >:)

Since the writer is a known comics fan, I like to think he put that parenthetical in there to perhaps acknowledge that there may be some dubiousness to the claim.

That said, if the claim is that Simone is the character’s first “ongoing” writer, that would explain why Trina Robbins isn’t being counted since her Wonder Woman contributions were a mini-series and an original graphic novel, not part of the ongoing series. So excluding Robbins makes sense on a technical, semantic point-of-view.

Less clear is why Mindy Newell should be overlooked. Perhaps it’s because her contributions were collaborative (at least on the post-Crisis Perez-era Wonder Woman; I’m not sure if she was the only writer credited on the pre-and-during-Crisis issues she wrote.) Which is still a bit unfair, but there you go.

In any case, it’s pretty cool that Simone is writing Wonder Woman, and she doesn’t need to be the first to do so for it to be pretty cool…

Also, I suppose Trina Robbins wonderful limited series doesn’t count either. So much for the paper of record (my experience with journalists over the years is that so few of them have any clue with the world of comics anyhow).

Why would they bust her pseudonym? i don’t notice that they do that on a regular for other authors.