Blog Posts for G. Willow Wilson

Buy AIR Vol 2, Win a Chat With the Author!

G. Willow Wilson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:08:41 -0700

Calling all AIR fans! The second volume of this Eisner-nominated series hits stores this week, and to celebrate, three lucky readers will win a virtual coffee break with Willow. To enter, email a photo of yourself holding your new copy of AIR Volume 2 to info [at] gwillowwilson [dot] com. The three people who send the most creative, funniest and/or most topical photos will win a fifteen minute ...

The Myth of Choice

G. Willow Wilson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:39:44 -0700

A recent conversation prompted by RedRoom author Sherry Jones's post about the veil irritated the heck out of me. Like most Muslim women, I slap my forehead whenever I see the title "Behind the Veil" attached to anything. (To put this in perspective, a Google search for ' "behind the veil" islam ' returns 39,800 hits. My forehead is getting pretty tired.) The post itself is ...

'The Butterfly Mosque' Out in Spring 2010!

G. Willow Wilson — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:58:41 -0700

Grove Press, the independent publishers of Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss and bestsellers Man Gone Down and Peace Like A River, will publish Willow’s memoir The Butterfly Mosque in Spring 2010. Stay tuned for details!

San Diego Comic Con 2009 Signing Schedule!

G. Willow Wilson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:07:58 -0700

Come by during the following times to say hi and get your books signed! ===== THURSDAY 11am-12pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth FRIDAY3-4pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth SATURDAY 1-2pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth3-4pm - SIGNING: Comic Relief booth SUNDAY 12:30-1:30pm – SIGNING: Vertigo booth

Thank You!

G. Willow Wilson — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:57:43 -0700

Just wanted to give a shout-out to everybody who participated in our May Day AIRlift! I’m still tallying the receipts and order numbers you sent me, but my guesstimate is that we moved between 100-120 books. Whatever the number turns out to be, that’s the number of dollars I’ll give to the Koru Foundation. Thanks again! By the way, anybody who feels a burning need to follow the ...

May Day AIRlift

G. Willow Wilson — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:17:53 -0700

Friends and colleagues,As most of you know, the first volume of my comic book series AIR debuted last month. Drawn by the incomparable MK Perker, AIR is the story of Blythe, a fight attendant with a fear of heights who is drawn into the race to develop a radical new form of flight based on Aztec technology. She also falls in love with a guy who might be a terrorist. It's a look, through a ...

Brian Wood and G.Willow Wilson Talk Shop at Newsarama

G. Willow Wilson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:05:21 -0800

Creator, Creator - Brian Wood & G. Willow WilsonBy Chris Arrantposted: 16 February 2009 01:49 pm ET http://www.newsarama.com/comics/020916-creator-Wilson-Wood.htmlIf you've been reading Newsarama.com for any length of time, you know that we love talking to creators. But sometimes we want to go beyond that "journalist interviews creator" fix and be a fly on the wall when two creators ...

Shades of Peter Milligan

G. Willow Wilson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:59:37 -0800

I worked at an independent movie theatre the summer after my high school graduation. People didn’t exactly line up around the block for The Winslow Boy and its ilk, so I had a lot of free time. Once the half-dozen middlebrows had taken their seats and the lights went down, I snuck into the lobby to read issues of SHADE: THE CHANGING MAN. “This Peter Milligan,” I thought to myself, ...

You Will Be Assimilated

G. Willow Wilson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:01:03 -0800

My colleague Aziz, who blogs for Beliefnet, has a wonderful writeup about the Fisher-Price 'Islamic indoctrination' doll. It's true. It's a plot, and we're all in on it. Those dolls are sent through a cave in Afghanistan before they hit the shelves, your homes, and the impressionable minds of your children! Listen to the doll's audio file (linked from Aziz's post) and let me know what you think. ...

Jewel of Medina Part II: The Book In Review

G. Willow Wilson — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:11:02 -0800

In an earlier post, I talked about why I thought it was important to defend The Jewel of Medina. I wrote the post at the beginning of the Jewel scandal, before the book’s publication, when any argument about the work was necessarily abstract. The Jewel of Medina scandal, at its heart, had nothing to do with The Jewel of Medina: it was about manufactured outrage, authorial rights, religion, and ...