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G. Willow Wilson's Blog
October 12, 2009
- Eisner Award nominee, Glyph Award winner and American Library Association Top 10 lister G. Willow Wilson is headed back to her hometown! Come get your books signed and purchase a copy of the newly released VIXEN: RETURN OF THE LION trade paperback. Hang out, chat and get your holiday cheer on. Comics make great gifts! When: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 1:00pm - 3:00pm Where: Time Warp ...
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August 19, 2009
- A recent conversation prompted by RedRoom author Sherry Jones's post about the veil irritated the heck out of me. Like most Muslim women, I slap my forehead whenever I see the title "Behind the Veil" attached to anything. (To put this in perspective, a Google search for ' "behind the veil" islam ' returns 39,800 hits. My forehead is getting pretty tired.) The post itself is ...
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August 2, 2009
- Grove Press, the independent publishers of Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss and bestsellers Man Gone Down and Peace Like A River, will publish Willow’s memoir The Butterfly Mosque in Spring 2010. Stay tuned for details!
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July 17, 2009
- Come by during the following times to say hi and get your books signed! ===== THURSDAY 11am-12pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth FRIDAY3-4pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth SATURDAY 1-2pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth3-4pm - SIGNING: Comic Relief booth SUNDAY 12:30-1:30pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth
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May 5, 2009
- Just wanted to give a shout-out to everybody who participated in our May Day AIRlift! I’m still tallying the receipts and order numbers you sent me, but my guesstimate is that we moved between 100-120 books. Whatever the number turns out to be, that’s the number of dollars I’ll give to the Koru Foundation. Thanks again! By the way, anybody who feels a burning need to follow the ...
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April 24, 2009
- Friends and colleagues,As most of you know, the first volume of my comic book series AIR debuted last month. Drawn by the incomparable MK Perker, AIR is the story of Blythe, a fight attendant with a fear of heights who is drawn into the race to develop a radical new form of flight based on Aztec technology. She also falls in love with a guy who might be a terrorist. It's a look, through a ...
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February 17, 2009
- Creator, Creator - Brian Wood & G. Willow WilsonBy Chris Arrantposted: 16 February 2009 01:49 pm ET http://www.newsarama.com/comics/020916-creator-Wilson-Wood.htmlIf you've been reading Newsarama.com for any length of time, you know that we love talking to creators. But sometimes we want to go beyond that "journalist interviews creator" fix and be a fly on the wall when two creators ...
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February 10, 2009
- I worked at an independent movie theatre the summer after my high school graduation. People didn’t exactly line up around the block for The Winslow Boy and its ilk, so I had a lot of free time. Once the half-dozen middlebrows had taken their seats and the lights went down, I snuck into the lobby to read issues of SHADE: THE CHANGING MAN. “This Peter Milligan,” I thought to myself, ...
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November 13, 2008
- My colleague Aziz, who blogs for Beliefnet, has a wonderful writeup about the Fisher-Price 'Islamic indoctrination' doll. It's true. It's a plot, and we're all in on it. Those dolls are sent through a cave in Afghanistan before they hit the shelves, your homes, and the impressionable minds of your children! Listen to the doll's audio file (linked from Aziz's post) and let me know what you think. ...
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November 9, 2008
- In an earlier post, I talked about why I thought it was important to defend The Jewel of Medina. I wrote the post at the beginning of the Jewel scandal, before the book’s publication, when any argument about the work was necessarily abstract. The Jewel of Medina scandal, at its heart, had nothing to do with The Jewel of Medina: it was about manufactured outrage, authorial rights, religion, and ...
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November 5, 2008
- Today I have two thoughts: one, that the foresight and genius of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King were even greater than most of us realized. Two, the millennials have arrived. And we come bearing gifts: RSS, Wikiculture, and the Paypal economy. Don’t know what those things are? Consider investigating them. They helped win this election. As I watched the regime-change last night, I ...
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August 13, 2008
- By now those of you with your ears to the ground will have heard the following: publication of The Jewel of Medina, a historical novel by Sherry Jones, has been indefinitely postponed by its publisher, Random House. The reason? The novel, which chronicles the life of Aisha, a wife of the Prophet Muhammad, could provoke violent backlash from conservative Muslims. One excerpt, in which Aisha ...
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May 27, 2008
- A preview of my new comic book series AIR is up on Vertigo Comics' MySpace page. Head over and take a look! The series premiers August 20th.
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April 10, 2008
- I’ve been avidly following Jhumpa Lahiri’s work since her debut collection of short stories won the Pulitzer. That’s no easy thing, landing the most coveted prize in literature on your first try. Lahiri followed this triumph with a novel, The Namesake, which was short-listed for half a dozen other awards and made into a middling film by Mira Nair. Last week, she gave us Unaccustomed Earth, ...
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April 2, 2008
- The internet is getting really nuts. First it was blogs. Then Facebook. Then Twitter. And now there’s Talkislam.info, where you can engage in a facimile of all three while discussing burning questions with some of the best minds of the Brass Crescent. (If I do say so myself.) Go, sign up, post your comments, your observations; indulge your idle love of comment threads. All faiths, opinions and ...
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