#kellysue deconnick

[grewsomeart]

So I stopped by my local comics store for free comic book day and accidentally ended up with some other stuff. Bitch Planet & Pretty Deadly for my Kelly Sue De-Comics collection, Sandman 'cause... it's Sandman, and Rocket Girl because @amyreeder can draw like a freaking mofo and I want to learn how she does it.

[thegeneha]

Every page of @PhilJimenezNYC's #Historia Vol 1 is a masterpiece, it's a book for the ages. @KellySued DeConnick's Vol 1 & 2 scripts are emotional and literary blockbusters. Pray divine inspiration for me (Vol 2) and @NicolaScottArt (Vol 3), doing my best to match Phil's genius. The full @DCComics news from @ComicsBeat https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-announces-massive-publishing-program-for-wonder-woman-80th/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZRgwWMibi/?utm_medium=tumblr

[whereintheworldiskamalakhan]

Captain America is a social justice warrior.

Kelly Sue Deconnick 

[helenedraws]

Hi yes remember when I painted this for Captain Marvel? Love the movie. And @kellysue DeConnick’s cameo! 

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[andyparkart]

Comic Concept to Film Concept: Captain Marvel! I wanna give props to Jaime McKelvie @mckelvie who did this awesome redesign of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel back in 2012 (or was it 2011?) working alongside the writer who defined the definitive modern incarnation of the character Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysued I loved taking this great comic book design & translating it for the big screen. My job is to take the spirit of the comics & bring it to a reality in the Marvel Cinematic Universe based on the story we’re telling. Jaime, in the same vein as Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko, created an iconic hero in the comics & I wanted to make the essence of that icon come alive. So thanks Jamie! I hope I did you & Kelly proud :) #CaptainMarvel #Avengers #conceptart #costumedesign #characterdesign #superhero #illustration #comicbook #그림 #그림스타그램 #일러스트 #캡틴마블 #marvel #marvelstudios #higherfurtherfaster Oh & yes I did versions with a sash :) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu3740RgPjK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=c9cn2fqanno2

[ms-mattness]

Drawing I made of the incredible @kellysued - it was such a delight to meet her and hear her anecdotes of working in the comic book industry at various interviews. She also gave me some good pointers and advice regarding feminism in comics. I finally watched Captain Marvel the following weekend - a film she had been working on as well. Thank you so much for the experience, Ms. DeConnick! #kellysuedeconnick #bogforumcomics2019 #comics #makecomics #feminismincomics #captainmarvel #drawing #sketchbook #pendrawing #writer https://www.instagram.com/p/B50P16OBg5m/?igshid=ywjdfmldjy6j

[vodkaoclock]

(via New BITCH PLANET series coming this June!)

[kosen]

Un fanart de Ginny y Big Alice, personajes del comic Bella Muerte, obra de Emma Rios y Kelly Sue DeConnick. Precioso, poético e inspirador. // Fanart of Ginny and Big Alice from Pretty Deadly, comic series by @emmartian & @kellysued Beautiful, poetic, inspiring. #prettydeadly #comic #clipstudiopaint #wacom #cintiq #fanart #imagecomics #astiberri https://www.instagram.com/p/BoJRdJPBLsj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d9gpxsrtofuq

[peako-riko]

Kelly Sue Deconnick (@kellysued ) has a has a text based list that is part self care, part productivity, and part loving ass kicking. I subscribed because I'm a fan of her work (Captain Marvel, Bitch Planet, and more) and because, like many others, I have the covid blues. I'm not getting anything done. My house is a mess. I was trying to learn new skills, but that has fallen to the wayside. Something has to change. I read the first few days and didn't actually do any of it. So tonight is, for me, day 1. Starting tonight, no phone in bed, for anything other than reading. Books. Not social media or the news. A good rule I used to follow, but that got dropped of late. #bgsdlist #productivity #covidselfcare #sleephygiene (at Rosedale, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_RHQUfnXAL/?igshid=14ii7hbk1ygss

[bwauthors]

I (Liz) have been reading Bitch Planet, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick (who can be found @kellysue if you’re curious) and of course, I’ve been rating the series on GoodReads (I’m a binge-reader and so, so late to this party). While skimming through the reviews, I remembered something important, and since we’re all working on WIPs and many of us looking to be published one day, I figured I would share it.

One-star reviews are not always indicative of your talent, your worth, or that of your work. They are of no value to you. They will not help you grow. Let them go. Focus on your four-star and (some) three-star reviews.

(a bit more on this under the cut because this may get long and rant-y, but that right there is the main point bc we’re all sensitive sometimes and need some positivity)

One-star reviews mean that your work wasn’t for that reader. And that’s okay. you can’t please everyone, and nothing that you make will be for everyone. Bitch Planet certainly isn’t (if you’re now curious, let me warn you that the series does include things that might make a large number of people uncomfortable, including nudity, sexual assault, overt violence, racism, and so on). In this specific case, a lot of the reviews I read were from people who entirely missed the point of the series. One reviewer mentioned their distaste for the book’s “repulsive version of equality”. There is no equality in Bitch Planet. That’s the entire premise of the series. This particular individual is so far off the point, they may as well have read a different comic entirely.

But all of that is just an example of the point.

As explained by Mary Robinette Kowal: one-star reviews aren’t helpful, (and from my skimming, they may even be written out of spite if your book is a heavy-hitter). So don’t let them get you down. Even the largest, most popular works will have detractors for any number of reasons. On the other hand, five-star reviews are nice, certainly, but they’re not particularly useful, either. Take your valuable reviews--your four-stars, and possibly some of your three-stars, and make use of them. See what those people have to say, those near-misses, and see if you can improve your work for the future. 

(This reference to Mary Robinette Kowal is from a writer podcast called Writing Excuses, hosted by Mary, Dan Wells, and Brandon Sanderson.)

[beautyofsorrow]

books read, 2017

* = previously read bold = favorites

January

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

On the Blue Shore of Silence by Pablo Neruda

February

March: Book 1 by John Lewis

Captain Marvel: Vol. 3 by KellySue DeConnick

March: Book 2 by John Lewis

March: Book 3 by John Lewis

You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein*

The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo

The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

March

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan

Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle*

The Mothers by Britt Bennett

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket*

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

April 

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Best American Essays 1988 ed. by Annie Dillard

Yes Please by Amy Poehler*

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Bossypants by Tina Fey*

May

Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby

The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes

New & Selected Poems by Mary Oliver

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove

Rest in Power by Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett*

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

June

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road by Brian McLaren

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert*

July

The Irrational Season by Madeleine L’Engle*

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard*

August

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Am I Blue? ed. by Marion Dane Bauer

Roadmap to Reconciliation by Brenda Salter McNeil

Are You Somebody? by Nuala O’Faolain

A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor

Forward by Abby Wambach

Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Ukranian and Russian Notebooks by Igort

September

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Introducing Feminist Images of God by Mary Grey

Polishing Silver by Paulette Guerin

Dracula by Bram Stoker

All About Love by bell hooks

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Jennifer, Gwyneth & Me by Rachel Bertsche

Girl at the End of the World by Elizabeth Esther

Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller

Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker

Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi

Love is Love (comic anthology)

Beyond Black Bear Lake by Anne LaBastille

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Finding God in the Waves by Mike McHargue

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls ed. by Hope Nicholson

Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard*

October

UnSweetined by Jodie Sweetin

The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman

Julia Roberts by Frank Sanello

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

I Got This by Laurie Hernandez

Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines

Upstream by Mary Oliver

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

Love, Ellen by Betty DeGeneres

November

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman

Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Essential ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’ by Alison Bechdel

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

The End of the Perfect 10 by Dvora Meyer

Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey

Room by Emma Donoghue

December

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Thrall by Natasha Trethewey

HIGHLIGHTS

finally read Ta-Nehisi Coates

still a lotta work to do (i.e. I still feel like I know nothing), but I read a lot of really amazing Black literature this year 

speaking of which, AUDRE LORDE 😍

also James Baldwin. JAMES BALDWIN. 

must 

read

more

James

Baldwin

after a single encounter with each, I know I will probably read everything Elizabeth Strout and Emma Donoghue have ever written forever and ever amen

so much gay shit. so much. 

Chaim Potok is perfect as always

A L I S O N  B E C H D E L  H O L Y  C R A P

[badalijewelry]

Born Big Pendant - Kelly Sue DeConnick & Val DeLandro - Badali Jewelry

Officially licensed Bitch Planet Born Big Pendant! Available in solid sterling silver, bronze, or brass!

@Kellysue @valentinedelandro​

[etakeh]

Will you tell me about Bitches Get Shit Done?

Bitches Get Shit Done is a thing started by @kellysue DeConnick as a way to blast-text anyone who signed up her own brand of inspirational messages.  You can get more detail from this post, along with how to subscribe if you like.  It’s gotten less frequent, but they still come in.

@bgsd-archive has the full archive.  It’s amazing, actually, how often she’s said the exact thing so many people needed to hear at that moment.  She’s magical. 

She also writes comics, and is generally kickass and amazing.  She is the reason there are so many glowing baby sharks out there right now.

[pixiedane]

Title: Extraordinary Artist: Liz Phair Fandom: Marvel Comics/MCU Character: Pepper Potts Summary: a series of Peppers talking to themselves about how incredible they are

Rescue Script: @kellysue DeConnick Pencils & Inks: Andrea Mutti Colors: José Villarrubia Letters: Clayton Cowles

Clips: Iron Man, Iron Man 3

Premiered at Wiscon 41 May 2017

[magarciascomics]

Kelly Sue DeConnick, comics writer @kellysued The fairy bitchmother (her words) of feminist comics writers (read Bitch Planet if you haven't already) I met her briefly last year in Barcelona, where after trolling her own panel she gave me the best advice ever about writing female characters. Big thanks to her and all wonderful and talented women working in comics. #internationalwomensday #iwd2019 #womenincomics https://www.instagram.com/p/BurhHm3Bl95/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=198uhyr8hw232

[jennawynn]

Clexacon Recommends

I took a whole lot of notes from the panels I attended, and here are the various things (mostly books) that were recommended:

(also fyi... if you order things from amazon, and you use smile.amazon.com, parts of your order go to a charity of choice... and AO3 is an option!)

Programs: Celtx scriptwriting program sensitivity reader database (i’m not sure if this is the one being plugged, but it’s the only one google wanted to show me) ProWritingAid.com

Shows and Movies: How to Get Away With Murder Anything Shonda Rhimes Sense8 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Billions (first non-binary character) Herstory Boy Meets Girl Nerve Endings Moonlight Revry for Queerated Content. Use the code lovedrug

Books:  Of Fire and Stars, Audrey Coulthurst How to Make A Wish, Ashley Herring Blake How to Start Living (in the Zombie Apocalypse) T. L. Walker World of Wakanda comic Bitch Planet Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue Twitter  Ms. Marvel G. Willow Wilson Twitter Agents of the Realm webcomic @agentsoftherealm (H)afrocentric Jewels Smith Girls with Slingshots Danielle Corsetto

Panelists (PLEASE add more, I don’t have all): Chelsea Steiner Twitter Debbie-jean Lemonte Twitter Mey Rude @meyrude Twitter  Alex Westmore website Jamie Broadnax Twitter Joelle Monique Twitter Elizabeth Bridges Twitter website Gretchen Ellis @theonewithpurplehair @thefandomentals website Twitter Heather Hogan Twitter Lily R. Mason @lingeringlilies Twitter  Linnea Jalando-On @papurrcat Twitter  Zara Barrie Twitter Tara Lynne Twitter Valerie Complex Twitter