Valerie D'Orazio
Valerie D'Orazio | |
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Born | Valerie D'Orazio February 23, 1974 Boston, Massachusetts |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Assistant Editor, Blogger, Writer, Film maker |
Pseudonym(s) | Val Occasional Superheroine Kamikaze Girl The Video Store Girl Beatrix Kyle |
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Valerie D'Orazio (born February 23, 1974) is an American comic book writer and editor.
Career[]
D'Orazio was hired as assistant editor at Acclaim in 1997. She joined the Creative Services Department at DC Comics in 2000. In 2002,[1] she became assistant editor to Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello on titles such as Aquaman, Batman: Black and White, and JLA.
After leaving DC in 2004, D'Orazio began a career as a blogger under a variety of pseudonyms. In 2006, she wrote an autobiographical series about her experiences with sexism in the American comic book industry, fandom and her health struggles entitled Goodbye to Comics.[2][3]
D'Orazio wrote three stories for Marvel Comics: Punisher MAX: Butterfly, X-Men Origins: Emma Frost and a short story for Girl Comics (mini-series). She also wrote two stories for Bluewater Comics: Beyond: Edward Snowden, and Beyond: The Joker: The Man Who Laughs.
From 2010 to 2013, she was the editor of MTV.com subsidiary MTV Geek.[4]
D'Orazio was President of Friends of Lulu,[5] a non-profit organization that promoted women comic book creators and readers. She served from 2007-2010, after which the group was disbanded.[6][7]
She was married to comic book writer David Gallaher.[8]
See also[]
- List of women comics writers and artists
- List of American comics creators
References[]
- ^ "DC hires online editor, promotes two from within" (Press release). Comic Book Resources. March 26, 2002. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
- ^ "Page not found — The Beat". The Beat. Archived from the original on 2007-12-28. Cite uses generic title (help)
- ^ "More Than Occasionally Super, Perhaps". blog.newsarama.com. November 24, 2006. Archived from the original on April 3, 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2007.
- ^ "Blogger".
- ^ Friends of Lulu (2008). "Friends of Lulu's 2008 Board of Directors". Friends of Lulu. Archived from the original on 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- ^ Draper Carlson, Johanna. "Friends of Lulu Done and Gone". Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ Heidi MacDonald. "Friends of Lulu to end in September". The Beat. Archived from the original on 2015-10-01.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- ^ ca-staff (18 March 2015). "A Statement Regarding Chris Sims and Val D'Orazio". Comics Alliance. Archived from the original on 19 January 2016.
External links[]
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- Comics critics
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- Living people
- Valiant Comics
- American women bloggers
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- 1974 births
- 21st-century American women