#Kelly Fitzpatrick

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Find Love with Gwenpool and Marvel Unlimited

Gwenpool’s back and ready for love! What’s a girl to do when she finds herself the star of a romance comic? #comics #comicbooks #digitalcomics #gwenpool

LOVE UNLIMITED: GWENPOOL #43 Writer: Jeremy WhitleyArtist: Bailie RosenlundColorist: Kelly FitzpatrickEditor: Alanna Smith6-issue arc launches on Thursday, March 30 Gwenpool’s back and ready for love! What’s a girl to do when she finds herself the star of a romance comic? First stop–a tragic affair with a boy she can never touch!

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#alanna smith #bailie rosenlund #digital comics #gwenpool #jeremy whitley #kelly fitzpatrick #love unlimited: gwenpool #marvel #marvel unlimited

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These preview pages from a story starring Gimmick by writer Steve Foxe, artist Rosi Kämpe and colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick from Marvel’s Voices: Pride (Marvel, June 2023) 

#gimmick #steve foxe #rosi kämpe #kelly fitzpatrick #marvel's voices: pride #marvel #comic book #comics #dark x-men #marvel's voices

[meganlevens]

Since I’m a bit new to this tumblrverse, I thought I’d spend some time introducing what I’m working on...first up is my current creator-owned comic series, STARSIGNS!

Telling the story of Rana Fawaaz, aka “Taurus”, and the other “Star Signs” who find themselves possessed of incredible powers after the constellations of the zodiac disappear from the sky, STARSIGNS is written by Saladin Ahmed, drawn by yours truly, colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, lettered by Shawn Lee and edited by Heather Antos. 

The first 8 chapters are free to read online through Saladin’s Copper Bottle site (which I highly recommend subscribing to, it’s free and you get access to a bunch of other great comics as well!):

https://www.copperbottle.net/p/starsigns1

Chapter 9 coming as soon as I can get it drawn! 

#comics #indie comics #superhero #starsigns #zodiac #taurus #saladin ahmed #kelly fitzpatrick #heather antos #copper bottle #art

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"Ripe Strawberries" (1980) - E. Randal Hoey

Full short-film:

Films I've watched in 2022 (158/210)

#films watched in 2022 #Ripe Strawberries #Raul Julia #Martha Sherrill #Kelly Fitzpatrick #Caryl Tenney #Richard McGonagle #E. Randal Hoey #short film

[re-readingcomics]

Comics Read 08/13- 20/2023

Over this period I of time I read Rockstars written by Joe Harris, art by Megan Hutchison-Cates, colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick, designer Tom Muller, letters by Michael David Thomas, and edited by Shawna Gor. The edition I read this time was Rockstars The Complete Series as published by Vault. Years ago I read the first arc, “Nativity in Black Light”, in the trade paperback as published by Image Comics. I intended to get the second arc’s trade paperback, “Children of the Beast” as published by Image, but somehow missed it. Anyway, I am glad I got this edition as it encouraged by to reread the first arc which I otherwise remember next to nothing about. The page I scanned to illustrate this post, with its myriad references to our world’s rock ’n’ roll icons and legends may be the part I most clearly remember. 

A quick search on my tags reveals I have never written about Joe Harris on this blog. This really emphasizes how long it has been since I have read any of his work. I have been writing about all the comic books I read for the better part of four years, and even though I was reading most of what he wrote for a while, none of it was during this time! I first became aware of Harris around 2013, when I was preparing to attend my first New York Comic Con. I went to a signing at Forbidden Planet the same week to get some comic books signed. There were four comic makers there. For some reason I now only remember the two that I was not there to see. One of them was Joe Harris, who at the time was primarily promoting his The X-Files season 10 comics (before the revival meant there was a tenth season of the television show). I have a complicated relationship to TXF. It was the first show I really obsessed over, it’s the first I feel angrily disillusioned over. I’m writing something about it in my other Tumblr for the anniversary.  That night, I bought the trade paperback Great Pacific, one of Harris’s other creator owned comics. I liked it a lot and started following his creator owned output. I bring this up because the lead characters of Rockstars, Jackie and Dorothy, have a Mulder and Scully-esque dynamic. Jackie is driven by his family history and seeks answers through mystical uses of cards. Dorothy is a journalist, and seeks answers that she can safely publish. These two character arcs were not really developed enough either of them, but Jackie gets to a more interesting crossroads. 

More directly relevant to this book, between reading the first arc the first time and reading this all now, I have steeped myself more in rock ’n’ roll legends than I was doing the first time around. Among other things I watched Brian De Palma’s The Phantom of the Paradise which reminded me about how often Faustian bargains and early death have been staples of rock legends since nearly the beginning. The plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” J. P. Richardson pretty much solidified this. This event is included in Rockstars, though the way is in questionable taste. (Coincidentally, that plane crash was also important to the plot of a famous episode of TXF.)

The plot of Rockstars, starts with investigating the mysterious deaths of a couple of groupies decades apart. There are ghost gangs of the groupies interfering with the investigation and they tend to be herald by the wrong lyrics of famous songs. The deaths of the murdered ones are related to demonic champions of the bands. Each arc covers a different demon in relation to a different band. The first band is an arch-typical second wave British invasion bad from the 1970s, and the second is arch-typical early hair metal band from the 1980s. I am more familiar with the former than the latter, despite actually living through parts of the 1980s. The plot didn’t really add up for me. But I love a lot of the details in the drawings, nods to famous theories and art. I also am touched by the concept of how generations are bonded because we each go through the same cycles of cultural events. I just wish that Dorothy’s character design wasn’t so close to some of the groupies in flashbacks or ghost form. It was needlessly confusing.

I feel like, of what I have read, the best comic books about loving music are Kieron Gillan and Jamie McKelvie’s Phonogram and The Wicked + The Divine. This isn’t like either of those, and that is a good thing. For all it’s flaws, I wish there was more of it. 

#what i’m reading #comic books #comics #image comics #vault comics #RockStars #Joe Harris #Megan Hutchison-Cates #Kelly Fitzpatrick #Tom Muller #Michael David Thomas #Shawna Gor #nycc13 #NYCC memories #The X-Files #Mulder and Scully

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Forthcoming Comic Book Anthology— Soldier Stories—Shares Four Veteran Tales This November

Forthcoming Comic Book Anthology— Soldier Stories—Shares Four Veteran Tales This November

Top Cow gives veterans a voice through sequential storytelling in the upcoming, Soldier Stories. This anthology is set to release the week of Veterans Day, in honor of veterans, and will include the contributions of creators, Brian Anthony (USA), Jalysa Conway (UAF), Megan Ferrell Burke (USMC), and Rev. William J. Bellamy (ARNG). “When Ken Pisani first approached us with this idea of putting out…

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#2022 #Annapaola Martello #Arturo Lauria #Billy Tucci #Brian Anthony #Cecilia Lo Valvo #Image Comics #Jalysa Conway #John Bivens #K. Michael Russell #Kelly Fitzpatrick #Marc Silvestri #Megan Ferrell Burke #Rev. William J. Bellamy #Ryan Cody #Soldier Stories #Veterans Day

[zanephillips]

Nicholas Hoult in True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

#nicholas hoult #nicholashoultedit #nhoultedit #true history of the kelly gang #thotkgedit #thotkg #constable fitzpatrick #movie #edit #filmedit #gifs #mine #* #film

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Bully (2001)

#bully #bully 2001 #larry clark #kelli garner #daniel franzese #bijou phillips #michael pitt #leo fitzpatrick #rachel miner #brad renfro #nick stahl #cinema #film #movie #00s #2000s #y2k #crime #true crime #david mckenna

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#government #autocracy #orange twittler #GOP #Susan Collins #Mike Pompeo #Jim Jordan #Marco Rubio #Ted Cruz #Pete Stauber #Kelly Loeffler #Joni Ernst #William Barr #Mike Pence #Mitch McConnell #Kevin McCarthy #Brian Fitzpatrick #Lindsey Graham #Rand Paul

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Here Are The ... *Checks Notes* ... EIGHT House Republicans Cool With You Using Birth Control

Here Are The … *Checks Notes* … EIGHT House Republicans Cool With You Using Birth Control

Yay, uterus-havers! You can relax because it turns out everybody was wrong and the Republicans aren’t really coming for contraception next, and everything will be fine because … Wait what? What did you say? You said the House of Representatives held a vote to make sure the right to contraception was guaranteed nationwide and how many Republicans voted for it? Eight? How many voted against that?…

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#anthony gonzalez #ashley hinson #birth control #bob gibbs #brian fitzpatrick #cathy mcmorris rodgers #clarence thomas #contraception #debbie lesko #fred upton #house republicans contraception bill #john katko #kat cammack #liz cheney #maria elvira salazar #mariannette miller-meeks #mike kelly #nancy mace #right to contraception act #Video

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Veterans will tell their stories in Top Cow's Soldier Stories

Veterans will tell their stories in Top Cow's Soldier Stories #comics #comicbooks

Top Cow gives alternative veteran voices a platform to tell their stories in Soldier Stories. The anthology is set to release the week of Veterans Day on November 9th to honor veterans, including the creators of this anthology: Brian Anthony (USA), Jalysa Conway (UAF), Megan Ferrell Burke (USMC), and Rev. William J. Bellamy (ARNG). Ken Pisani (AMP’D), is a Los Angeles Times best-selling author…

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#annapaola martello #arturo lauria #billy tucci #brian anthony #cecilia lo valvo #comic books #Comics #image comics #jalysa conway #john bivens #k. michael russell #kelly fitzpatrick #marc silvestri #megan ferrell burke #ryan cody #soldier stories #top cow productions #william j. bellamy

[zaddyzustin]

#bully #bully 2001 #larry clark #rachel miner #brad renfro #bijou phillips #michael pitt #leo fitzpatrick #kelli garner #daniel franzese

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Out this week: Starsigns #1 (Image, $3.99):

Saladin Ahmed launched this series in his Substack back in 2021 with with Megan Levens, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Shawn Lee and Heather Antos; it’s about the constellations of the Zodiac falling to earth, granting 12  people from very different walks of life the superhuman powers of the Starsigns.

See what else is arriving in comic book shops this week.

#saladin ahmed #megan levens #comics on substack #image comics #comics #comic books #new comics wednesday #new comic book day #new comics day #new comics #can't wait for comics #out this week #this week's comics #ncbd #starsigns #shawn lee #heather antos #kelly fitzpatrick

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Marvel character Gwendolyn “Gwen” Poole aka Gwenpool has been confirmed aromantic and asexual!

Gwenpool will come to terms with her sexuality in next week’s issue of Love Unlimited: Gwenpool, her current series which is made by an acespec creative team.

Acespec creators Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley, Bailie Rosenlund @bailiesartblog, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Alanna Smith @alannawrites and Kaitlyn Lindtvedt discuss Gwenpool’s asexuality and aromanticism in this new interview for Marvel.

It’s a really great interview, highly recommend reading it!

“Acespec people aren’t often shown in media and when they are, it’s often shown as a trope of being a broken thing that needs fixing. The more diversity and stories we can tell, the better.” -Kelly Fitzpatrick

Love Unlimited: Gwenpool is available now from Marvel Unlimited. The concluding issue of this 6 part limited series will be out next week.

Check out this reading list for Gwenpool if you’d like to read more of her comics!

Gwenpool is the second Marvel character to be confirmed asexual this year, although she will be the first to have her asexuality shown on-page.

Morgan Red was confirmed asexual back in March and his asexuality will be addressed in New Mutants Lethal Legion #5, out in July.

#gwenpool #gwendolyn poole #marvel #marvel comics #comic books #asexual #ace #aromantic #aro #aroace #asexual representation #ace character #aromantic character #aromantic representation #aro character #aro representation #aroace character #aroace representation #queer comics #lgbtqia+ comics #comics by acespec creators #comic: Love Unlimited: Gwenpool #comics with ace characters #comics with aroace characters

[alannawrites]

Hello! My name's Alanna and I'm the lead editor of LOVE UNLIMITED, Marvel Unlimited's romance comic line. This week we finished a story about Gwendolyn Poole, AKA Gwenpool, coming to the realization that she's aromantic and asexual--and though I usually prefer to let the stories speak for themselves, I wanted to talk a bit about this one.

There was basically no awareness of the asexual spectrum when I was growing up--I went through both high school and college secretly feeling like I was some kind of alien in a world that made no sense to me. Finding out that other people experienced the same thing, and that I wasn't weird or broken, was a big moment in my life.

I know how much it would have meant to me to see a character grappling with the same questions I was. I searched desperately for myself in stories as a kid even though I couldn't quite define what I was looking for yet. I'm so glad that there are more ace stories now, and honored that we were able to bring one more into the world.

I was inspired and emboldened to pitch this story by the work my friends Andrea Shea, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt did on Connor Hawke's story at DC, by Latoya Raveneau's ace advocacy within Disney, and by my erstwhile assistant editor and co-conspiritor Kaitlyn Lindtvedt, who, I discovered after a few months of working together, was also ace! We were helped and supported at every step by other aces at Marvel as well--there are more of us than you might think! It's also amazing that our EIC and Marvel greenlit this story and gave us the freedom to tell it the way we wanted.

I'm so grateful to @jeremywhitley, @bailiesartblog and Kelly Fitzpatrick for bringing this story to life. Working with an all-ace team has been so special--there's just something magic about knowing that even though our individual experiences differed, we had something fundamental and formative in common. There are pieces of all of us in this story, if you know where to look.

Anyway! Like many aces, this is something I get shy talking about, haha--so that's all I've got for you! (Unless you want to read more here!) Thank you all for reading and loving the story, and congrats to aroace icon Gwenpool!

#gwenpool #love unlimited: gwenpool #marvel comics #asexuality #aroace representation #gwendolyn poole

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Love Unlimited: Infinity Comic #43 (2023)

written by Jeremy Whitley art by Bailie Rosenlund & Kelly Fitzpatrick

#gwenpool #gwen poole #marvel #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers