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Accomplished author & social commentator Roxane Gay is set to adapt her graphic novel The Banks for a television series take, alongside TKO Studios and New Regency Written by Gay and illustrated by Ming Doyle, the work focuses on the women of the Banks family who are the most successful thieves in Chicago But during[...]

She is currently recruiting creatives widely – with a reputation for lying down in front of oncoming trains to protect them. Sebastian Goirner (Up) Editor-in-chief of TKO Studios, a new comic book publisher with an innovative approach to formats and pricing, and who with owner Tze Chu are undercutting the majors, and lining up creators they[...]

Credit: (L) S L O W K I N G via Wikimedia Commons (GFDL license) In yet another example of how clickbait media can change the world, Roxane Gay has successfully filed a job application for screenwriter of Batgirl via Twitter For years, the clickbait media has been reporting on any mention of a Hollywood professional[...]

Bestselling author Roxane Gay's World of Wakanda may have been quietly canceled by Marvel back in February, but in addition to working on a Lumberjanes story with BOOM! Studios, Gay is returning to comics for a brand new series Gay announced the news on Twitter (as noticed by Newsarama): https://twitter.com/rgay/status/942980507104460800 However, this project is being kept tightly[...]

Earlier this year, author Roxane Gay pulled her upcoming book, How To Be Heard, from Simon & Schuster, in protest of the publisher's decision to publish Dangerous, the autobiography of Milo Yiannopoulos "I was supposed to turn the book in this month and I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like[...]

In 2016, Roxane Gay became one of the first black women to write a comic at Marvel as part of the creative team of Black Panther: World of Wakanda, which also featured co-writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and artist Alitha Martinez, covers by Afua Richardson, and Yona Harvey on a backup story in the first issue. However, as Bleeding Cool[...]

Best-selling author and writer of Marvel's Black Panther: World of Wakanda Roxane Gay has pulled her upcoming book, How To Be Heard, from publisher Simon and Schuster in protest of the publisher's $250,000 deal with controversial alt-right troll and Brietbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos The announcement of the book deal was met with criticism for giving a platform to[...]

The book was also widely lauded as featuring Marvel's first — ever — black female writers: But was it only for a single story arc? Is the new Black Panther: World of Wakanda creative team permanent? Will Roxane Gay and Alitha Martinez be coming back, or doing something else at Marvel in the future? We reached out to Marvel for[...]