Interview with the adapter of "Guilty Pleasures"

[pandorasblog]

Found a link to this while trawling through my comics/feminism filter:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/15795009.htm

Watch out for the (obviously yeeeears old) comment from Laurell on sex and violence; it's a quote culled from her website...

Comments

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that is a terrible interview!

Her husband, Sean, who is chief editor and public relations manager for the Dable Brothers' comics studio,

So basically, she scored the gig because her husband is an inside man for Dable Bros. GREAAAAT. THAT FILLS ME WITH CONFIDENCE. Rather than getting the right person for the job - like with the art in the comic itself - they just seemed to have picked someone at random and went, "HERE! YOU DO IT!"

*facepalm*

"My husband said, 'Well, I don't really want to do a more female-oriented book,'" his wife said. "'I want to do some of the other books.' So I ended up getting it, and, now, it's like this really big deal. I had never heard of Anita Blake before this."

So yeah, it's basically, "Honey - you're a woman, you look at this female-oriented thing. I'm-a gonna do something to do with gratuitous violence and splody things now." *throws at wife*

AIII.

All that crap about her husband and pimping of his website? OMGWTF? WHY IS THAT IN THERE? I thought this was meant to be an interview with Stacie Ritchie, the adaptor lady - NOT HER HUSBAND.

I can understand getting riled over the whole, "his wife replied" parts, because while there are women out there that don't mind being referred to as wives, this...is...just...clumsy. It's like, "We can't put Stacie or Ms Ritchie-Jordan in here, so what else can we put???"

It...kinda smacks of lazy if the best quote they can get is off the LKH website. At least they referenced the website instead of just saying LKH, herself. But still - this is just one more layer of wanktery that shouldn't be in there.

Not to mention, I SO DO NOT CARE about that Unvenferth dude. I really, really don't.

Brett Booth is credited for the art in issue No. 1.

J'ACCUSE! NOW I KNOW WHO TO FOCUS MY RAGE UPON! *gets out voodoo dolls, stabs*

Just...holy crap. That was a terrible interview to read.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

This is totally OT:

But back when there was that post on the GP comic cover with JC touching his bad self *shudder* you asked me about my drawing - well, here's the link-fu to my art-type stuff (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=dwg&keyword=Art-type+stuff&filter=all). Er, Inanna is NSFW - so be warned. I usually draw when I'm in the mood for it, so not much for the posting right now.

[hippie-lover.livejournal.com]

Haha. Near the end it goes from being "Guilty Pleasures" to the "Guilty Party" series. *smirks* Someone else needs a proofreader...

[world-of-eos.livejournal.com]

This . . . this explains so much! Just the other day I was wondering to myself: "Self, how is that they could fuck up so badly on what should be a silver-platter comic?" And now! Now I know! Because it was headed up by a bunch of amateurs. The script-writer is an amateur, the artists are amateurs (I don't care how many comics they've drawn, that art is bad), even the people who wrote this review are amateurs!

Fantastic. I'm gonna to go be sick in my trashcan, now.

[klmorgan.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHA.

For serious. I'm gobsmacked at how they managed to fuck up something this giftwrapped.

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

Everyone (in the book) has someone to lust after, but Anita is like me. She doesn't see herself as a lust object.

Well, not in the first books. ;p Oh, LKH...

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

I love the whole, "It wasn't hard to adapt because LKH doesn't really write anything descriptive." How do they find SO MANY people who can fit both feet in their mouths?

[catskin.livejournal.com]

"Anita is like me."

Case closed!

[pandorasblog]

I knew something felt wrong about that interview, but it takes you two to point out the sheer overwhelming WRONG!?!?!!!!ness of it. I did wonder how having been a teacher and a secretary suddenly made her qualified as a writer, but I sort of hoped it just meant she'd written stuff that the journalist was too lazy to itemise...

The more I think about this, the more it sucks. So many writers out there would kill for an opportunity like this, and she sails into it because her husband isn't interested in doing a female-oriented story.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

omg, wow!

You can do colour and backgrounds. *bes insanely jellus* Maybe it's because I draw in pencil, but backgrounds have always been a pain in my ass (not to mention, they wind up with big smudgey handprints on them, because I draw in pencil and I wind up with black all the way down my little finger and halfway up my arm). And colour - omg, I wish to god I knew how to do colour blending. Right now, for colour things, I break out my watercolour pencils and draw something in solid, then add pencil shading or bits of white for highlight.

I love "Lured" - the way she's sitting, the shading, the fishhook, it makes me smile.