The Women of Marvel panel kicked off Sunday at New York Comic Con 2024. In attendance were panel moderator and Marvel editor Sarah Branstad, special guests Erica Schultz, Stephanie Phillips, Mackenzie Cadenhead, and a surprise special guest appearance by Sana Amanat. .
The Women of Marvel panel ended with a Q&A asking for advice for women looking to break into the comics industry. The answers from each panelist are as follows.
Left to right: Sana Amanat, Mackenzie Cadenhead, Stephanie Phillips, Erica Schultz.
Erica Schultz: As a writer, you basically have to create your own story. Your own story, not Marvel or DC characters (at first). My suggestion is to work with many small publishers to publish anthologies. These are great because writing short stories with a beginning, middle, and end is great practice.
Anthology also allows you to gain experience in everything from interacting with editors to production schedules. Every year, around January or February, several small publishers release anthologies, and the themes are as follows. So you can look for it online.
Stephanie Phillips: There are some places that are capitalizing on that and finding new talent. Mad Cave and Negative space offer submissions to many different types of authors, as we often do with horror submissions. This is Top Cow.
One of the great things is that even if you don’t get selected by a publisher, you can still get editorships and talk to people in the industry. Negative Space has a mentorship program that prepares new writers with mentors, industry figures, editors, writers, and more. This is a so-called private lesson. So look for those opportunities and talk to those people and have conversations.
Mackenzie Cadenhead: Great answer, very helpful. I’m coming from a different perspective. I tell people and interns to talk to them and put themselves out there. I worked in theater, then I was an editor at Marvel, then I wrote my own work unrelated to Marvel, then I came back and wrote children’s books, and now I’m finally doing this job. .
It was very important to me to bring in more women. When I started there weren’t that many women, but now there are so many women. Sana (Amanat) actually started as my editor and at one point was my assistant editor. She didn’t have a background in art direction, but it came naturally to her. So as her boss, I just wanted to facilitate that and make sure we were working on it. And she surpassed me. She was just amazing. When we left the comic book company we were at, we were good friends at that point, and she had some people at Marvel who were still friends. She’s the one who suggested I try working at Marvel at one point.
Just paying attention to the fact that we, as women, want to see more women in this industry and strive to bring other women out there can do a lot. We always try to make sure we’re in touch and encouraging you to do this. What do you think I should do? I ask. and so on. This is how we function well as a community. Let’s talk and work together. I think that helped me as a professional. You also never know where your path will lead you, so just follow it or take people’s advice.
Sana Amanat: Would you say she’s very humble? The reason I stayed in comics, and even stayed in comics and had a career at Marvel, started with this woman. She was my mentor and now one of my best friends. She gave me the encouragement I needed to believe in myself.
There was a moment when I thought this was no good. As a woman of color, that moment made me realize why no one wanted me in this industry. People degraded me like that. And I had people like Mackenzie and the wider Marvel fandom, Dan Buckley, CB Cebulski, Steve Blackwood embrace me and help me champion my voice.
It’s natural to strive to develop your own talent, but you also need to find talent. There are people in this room right now on your side who are working with you to change the industry. I think getting to know each other and building that community will go a long way. Start here again and see where we are.
And that was it. There’s some really great advice out there, but for those readers who don’t have enough, here’s a chronological list of the other announcements made at the Women of Marvel panel, with lots of images of what was shown. I’ll leave it.
Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider
Stephanie Phillips talked about Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider and what’s happening now that Gwen exists permanently in 616. Her new character arc features a long-standing love-hate feud with the Black Tarantula, in an ongoing storyline in which Maske attempts to discover who is underneath. She also showed off a future cover by Mark Brooks, seen above.
phoenix
Phillips then spoke about her run in Phoenix, which explores Jean’s journey of self-discovery. There were hints that Eternity was speaking to Jean, who goes on this journey to understand what the power of the Phoenix means to her. Phoenix is also promised to see her transformation, going through a kind of spiritual cocoon and being reborn as a new kind of space hero, seen below.
The new Phoenix mode focused on making Jean the “Queen of the Universe.”
Marvel Women: She-Devils #1
Written by Stephanie Phillips, Alison Sampson, and others
Art by Alison Sampson et al.
Cover by Nina Vakueva
Released on 2/26
Finally, Phillips talked about her next work, WOMEN OF MARVEL: SHE-DEVILS #1. This is a one-shot scheduled for release on February 26th, and its release comes at the perfect time, just one week before Daredevil Born Again opens on D+. The comic is part of the annual Women of Marvel anthology, which spotlights Marvel’s street-level heroines who step out of the shadows. Phillips will be joined by Alison Sampson and a number of up-and-coming artists.
The claws are out! When She-Devil Shana uncovers a dark conspiracy, she will call upon her international allies to join forces with fists, sai, swords and gauntlets to stop the bomb before it explodes. Discover the true identity of Marvel’s most fearless warriors as Elektra, Echo, Wolverine and more band together to save the day.
Black Widow as Venom in #3
Poison and Daredevil unleash hell
Erica Schultz then gave an update on Venom War: Venomous, then talked about her upcoming collaboration with Laura Kinney Wolverine and Daredevil: Unleashed Hell. The latter includes a red band version featuring more entrails and decapitations.
“We wanted to go back to the dark side of Elektra,” Schulz said of Daredevil: Unleashed Hell. “She has a very dark past and we’re going to continue with that dark past, seeing how it affects her future.”
Laura Kinney: Wolverine
Schultz also took time to talk about his appearance in Wolverine, and his big approach to Laura Kinney is to emphasize that just like Elektra is not Matt like Daredevil, Laura is not Logan either. he emphasized.
“Lola is called Little Logan, but she’s not. She’s not Logan, just like Gabby Kinney is not Laura. Logan is 340 years old. In fact, he also has a childhood. “Laura was born in a lab and then a homeless teenager,” Schultz said, highlighting the differences between Laura and others with Logan’s DNA. She continued, “Yes, they have adaptive claws, but she experiences things completely differently. Logan is about the same age, so he’s had time to heal from the trauma. She ( Laura still has a lot to deal with emotionally. They’re definitely not the same.”
Daredevil Born Again
Sana Amanat then came on to talk about what it’s like to be a producer on such a great comic-inspired MCU TV show. She talked about the Born Again show, pretty much all the same topics from the panel the day before. You can read about this in our Daredevil Born Again panel recap.
dogpool and doom academy
Finally, Mackenzie Cadenhead talks about her role in the popular Infinity Comics series Marvel Mutts, followed by her role in Dogpool, which includes many more furry friends such as Catpool and Mousepool. We talked about her accomplishments.
She admitted that the series will be a little more graphic than most people are expecting, given that it’s a comic book that takes place in Deadpool’s world, and that it will be exciting, fun, bright, and a little He emphasized that it would be naughty, and that Deadpool might also be featured. Dogpool of the MCU. She also emphasized that, considering the original work, the manga may contain some violent content. Sometimes it’s stupid. And sometimes we host fart jokes.
She also talked about Christmas, the new Pet Pool storyline coming out later this year. There was also talk about Cadenhead running Doom Academy later this year, which we covered in a previous Doom Academy announcement.
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