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The Writer Who Wouldn't Talk To His Colourist – Christina Strain Talks About Failure

Published Mon, 29 May 2017 16:30:25 -0500

I Failed, So What? is a podcast that talks to female creators about failure. And in their second podcast, they talked to Christina Strain, colourist-turned TV screenwriter and comics writer, currently launching the new series Generation X and working on Magicians.

She talks about her work and her history. But she also has a story about working as a colourist with a writer who wouldn't speak to her, several years into her career.

Which found her working on pages again and again, not hearing from the writer, except through the book's penciller, who bore the brunt of the writer's dissatisfaction, and who told her that the writer wanted to penciller to recolour it. And that the writer was just trying to get Christina fired from the book.

She talks about calling her editor to quit, who had a conversation, calmed her down, and reassured the writer that this was not that person's book, that it was Marvel's book. That the editor knew Christina was great and that she was "trying to please someone who's not happy. I hired you, you do you."

Which she then did. Only for the writer to suddenly reply and say "this is what I wanted"."F- you man!"

To her internal response… "F- you man!"

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