The most egocentric title ever!: seanan

The most egocentric title ever!

I love comics.

I have loved comics since I was very small, paging through the issues that belonged to older friends of the family (IE, the teenage and pre-teen children of my mother's friends). I was always brutally careful, and fully aware that failure to take care would result in losing my comic privileges. I essentially grew up at Flying Colors, my local comic book store. The owner, Joe, has seen me go from skinny little girl to adult woman in one-week increments, framed by trips to the quarter box and the graphic novel shelves. The idea that comics weren't for girls never occurred to me, and he's part of the reason why. I wish everyone had a local comic guy like Joe Field.

I want to write for comics. That, too, has been true since I was very small. When I first started working with my agent, Diana Fox, she asked me what I wanted out of my career. She was probably expecting "a million dollars" or something else improbable. What she got was "I want to write the X-Men." So yeah, I've been trying to find a way to start writing for comics for a while now.

I found it.

I am proud, thrilled, and terrified to announce that I have signed on with Thrillbent.com to script a new ongoing series titled The Best Thing. We don't have an artist or a release date yet, but I am so, so excited about this concept and this world, and I am going to smash things so hard. The Best Thing is to magical girl titles as Velveteen vs. is to superhero teams, and I am really hoping it lives up to its name.

I'm gonna write a comic book.

It's gonna be the best thing.

wild_patience

May 3 2014, 05:24:37 UTC 3 years ago

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Yay!!! When you have a publication date, I'll ask my local shop to put it on my subscription. I confess, I'm a woman in my 50s and I have read comics since I was a little girl. I fell in love with them when we visited my cousins in Montana one Thanksgiving. It rained constantly, but my cousin Donna had comic books in the barn, and I was in heave. I searched for years for the part 2 of a 2-parter Supergirl story she only had the beginning of.

My mother (b. 1922) read comics. Her father had a general store and stocked comics and she would always read the new ones when they came in.

My childhood friends read comics. The snobby girls at school read "Millie the Model," and would not share with the unpopular girls. The concept of comics being for boys totally eluded me.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2014, 20:51:28 UTC 3 years ago

I will absolutely let everyone know when the time is nigh. :)

mneme

May 3 2014, 07:05:51 UTC 3 years ago

Woot! This sounds awesome!

July 9 2014, 20:51:38 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you!

July 9 2014, 21:30:01 UTC 3 years ago

I've been pretty much hoping you'd script a comic book since you started Velveteen vs. -- so, um, yeah.

You're welcome!

gothrockrulz

May 3 2014, 07:19:54 UTC 3 years ago

Congrats!

July 9 2014, 20:51:46 UTC 3 years ago

dornbeast

May 3 2014, 07:32:39 UTC 3 years ago

ME: Seanan's writing a comic book!
MY BUDGET: *meep*
ME: It's not that much a month.
MY BUDGET: You don't have any steady income. You shouldn't be--mmf!
ME: I can afford it.
MY BUDGET: Yessir.

July 9 2014, 20:51:54 UTC 3 years ago

Hee hee hee.

joecoustic

May 3 2014, 12:26:16 UTC 3 years ago

Yay!!!!! How Cool! :)

July 9 2014, 20:52:03 UTC 3 years ago

I am excited.

mac_arthur_park

May 3 2014, 13:34:05 UTC 3 years ago

Congratulations!

July 9 2014, 20:52:16 UTC 3 years ago

Thanks!

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notalwaysweak

May 4 2014, 10:23:48 UTC 3 years ago

This is simply amazeballs and I am all kinds of happy for you. That these fantastic things keep happening for you shows the value of all the hard, hard work you put in.

Also, to keep your comments-to-answer count down, yay for the tip jar! My kitties send your kitties poor-abandoned-us hugs, especially the new kitten Pippin (Peregrin Rorschach; he's white with a big black splotch on his back). My psych said when I told him I had a new kitten, 'It must be nice to have a little pussy around the house again.' I bit my tongue SO HARD.