Unofficial Birds Of Prey Contest

gailsimone:

I will send a signed Birds of Prey trade paperback to the winner of the following contest:

Whoever makes the best, funniest, or cleverest standard haiku with at least one bit of dialogue from issue number three of Birds Of Prey. Entrants agree to allow me to post or link to their entries (please include your name or handle!).

It’s all completely arbitrary and judged solely by my fevered brain.

GO!

I asked Gail how long she was planning on running her unoffical contest and she said,  ”Let’s make it a week, and then I’ll reopen for those who have a delay!”

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Gail Simone
Birds of Prey
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gailsimone: pinkoftheink: Secret Six Issue 11 - Pg 22 WONDER WOMAN  Did you buy this original, pinkoftheink ? It’s crazy gorgeous. Nicola amazes me. When we work together, she’s more like my sister than a collaborator. I have two pages of her art, one is a beautiful page with my favorite Misfit pose. Interesting fun fact.  Nicola lays out the entire page and sketches it in, in reverse, on the back of each page of art. So she drew THIS page (and all others) first, BACKWARDS, flipped right to left, on the back of the page, then puts it on a lightbox and draws the final version on the front, using the reversed layout on the back as the guideline. So every page of comics art she does almost always has another, sketchier but still cool, reversed piece of art on the side. The brainpower it takes to make that happen, I have no idea. The hug she drew at the end of this arc between a grieving Artemis and Diana is one of my all-time favorite panels ever of any book I’ve written. “Lead us, princess. Lead ME.” “I cannot. But you don’t truly NEED me to.” And Nicola, of course, nailed it. This is an amazing process to complete pages.  I’m with Gail on this, the amount of brain power it takes to draw something backwards to start with is off the charts.

gailsimone:

pinkoftheink:

Secret Six Issue 11 - Pg 22 WONDER WOMAN 

Did you buy this original, pinkoftheink ? It’s crazy gorgeous.

Nicola amazes me. When we work together, she’s more like my sister than a collaborator. I have two pages of her art, one is a beautiful page with my favorite Misfit pose.

Interesting fun fact.  Nicola lays out the entire page and sketches it in, in reverse, on the back of each page of art. So she drew THIS page (and all others) first, BACKWARDS, flipped right to left, on the back of the page, then puts it on a lightbox and draws the final version on the front, using the reversed layout on the back as the guideline. So every page of comics art she does almost always has another, sketchier but still cool, reversed piece of art on the side.

The brainpower it takes to make that happen, I have no idea.

The hug she drew at the end of this arc between a grieving Artemis and Diana is one of my all-time favorite panels ever of any book I’ve written. “Lead us, princess. Lead ME.”

“I cannot. But you don’t truly NEED me to.”

And Nicola, of course, nailed it.

This is an amazing process to complete pages.  I’m with Gail on this, the amount of brain power it takes to draw something backwards to start with is off the charts.

Wonder Woman
Nicola Scott
Gail Simone
Secret Six
Art
1 year ago 36 notes
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