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b'This week we talk about Gail Simone for Creator Focus\\nGail Simone\\nBorn: \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 July 29, 1974 Oregon\\nOccupation: Writer, Critic\\nNotable Works:\\nBirds of Prey\\nSecret Six\\nWelcome to Tranquility\\nWonder Woman\\nRed Sonja\\nBatgirl\\nAwards\\n2009, she was inducted into the Friends of Lulu\'s Female Comic Creator\'s Hall Of Fame.\\n2010 and 2012, Simone was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book through her work on Secret Six\\nJuly 2014, Simone was awarded the first ever True Believers Comic Award for Roll of Honor/Comic Excellence at London Film and Comic Con\\nn\\n1990\\u2019s\\nSimone first came to fan attention through Women in Refrigerators, a website founded in 1999\\nIn response to Green Lantern #54, where Kyle\\u2019r girlfriend (Alexandra DeWitt) was murdered and put into a refrigerator.\\nThe site was dedicated to identifying female superheroes who had been killed, raped, or otherwise suffered traumatic indignities as a plot device for a male character.\\n\\nSimone worked for Bongo Comics, scripting many of their comics based on The Simpsons.\\nHer contributions include stories for Simpsons Comics, an annual Treehouse of Horror special, and regular scripts for Bart Simpson Comics.\\n\\n2000\\u2019s\\nSimone entered the comics mainstream with a run on Marvel Comics\' Deadpool.\\nWhen Deadpool was canceled and relaunched as Agent X, Simone continued as writer, but eventually left the series after a conflict with the series\' editor\\nAfter the dispute with Marvel, Simone moved on to DC Comics, where she was given the Birds of Prey title in 2003\\nall-female group consisting of Oracle, Black Canary, The Huntress and Lady Blackhawk.\\n\\nSimone took over Action Comics after writer Chuck Austen, with John Byrne penciling.\\n2005 Villains United limited series \\u2013 part of the "Infinite Crisis" crossover \\u2013 in which she revitalized the Catman character.\\nwrote a two-issue story arc that focused on the new Hawk & Dove for the third Teen Titans series, with Rob Liefeld penciling.\\nSimone maintained her usual enthusiastic stance, fandom was quick to lambast the promotional art Liefeld produced in tandem with the PR announcement.\\n\\nIn 2005 Simone wrote a Villains United limited series spin-off, entitled Secret Six, which led to an ongoing series\\ndebuted in September 2008 and finished with the rest of DC\'s titles prior to the September 2011 New 52 relaunch.\\n\\nKiller Princesses #1\\u20133 (with Lea Hernandez, Oni Press, December 2001 \\u2013 April 2003) collected as:\\nKiller Princesses (96 pages, February 2004\\n\\nAction Comics #827\\u2013831 & 833\\u2013835 2006\\nCollected as: Superman: Strange Attractors\\n\\nRose and Thorn #1\\u20136 2004\\nSimone also wrote an Atom series, based on ideas by Grant Morrison\\nOther work includes a Gen\\xb9\\xb3 series 2006\\nand a creator-owned project about a retirement community of super-heroes, Welcome to Tranquility, for the company Wildstorm.\\nSimone was also a contributor to Tori Amos\'s Comic Book Tattoo\\nan Eisner Award and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel made up of fifty-one stories, each based on or inspired by a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, published by Image Comics in 2008.\\n\\nApril 12, 2007, DC announced that Simone would be the new regular writer of the third volume of Wonder Woman\\nnotable for being Wonder Woman\'s longest-running female writer\\n\\n2010\\u2019s\\nnamed as the writer for Birds of Prey under the "Brightest Day" banner.\\nA second Welcome to Tranquility limited series was also published in 2010\\nJune 2011, it was announced that Simone would be working on a revamped Firestorm series starring Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch\\n2011, Simone contributed to The Power Within, a Kickstarter-funded comic book that focuses on teen bullying\\nThat same year, as part of DC Comics\' New 52 initiative, Simone wrote the new Batgirl title starring Barbara Gordon.\\nSimone introduced a character named Alysia Yeoh, who was later revealed to be transgender, the first major transgender character written in a contemporary context in a mainstream comic book\\n\\n2012, various press reported rumors that \\n\\n--- \\n\\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fortress-of-comictude/support'