| Valerie D'Orazio | |
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D'Orazio at the Big Apple Con, November 15, 2008. |
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| Born | Valerie D'Orazio |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Assistant Editor, Blogger, Writer, Film maker |
| Pseudonym(s) | Val Occasional Superheroine Kamikaze Girl The Video Store Girl |
| Notable works | Occasional Superheroine |
Valerie D'Orazio is an American comic book writer and editor.
She formerly worked as an assistant editor at Acclaim and DC Comics. At Acclaim Comics she helped edit Shadowman and Magnus Robot Fighter and at DC Comics she assisted on such titles as Justice League of America and Identity Crisis.
D'Orazio has also worked as President of Friends of Lulu, a charitable organization that works to promote females in the comic book industry and its readership.
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After her two and a half year stint with Acclaim Entertainment under the direction of editors such as Madeleine Robins, Evan Skolnick, and Fabian Nicieza, D'Orazio joined the DC Comics staff in 2000 as Coordinator in their Creative Services department. In March 2002,[1] she was promoted to assistant editor for Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello.
After leaving DC, D'Orazio began a career as a writer and blogger with a regular feature at Silver Bullet Comics, entitled Kamikaze Girl. Shortly thereafter, she began her own blog, Occasional Superheroine.
In November 2006, she erased the former contents of her blog on comics and began posting a biographical story of her experiences as a female fan of the superhero genre and her work in the industry entitled Goodbye to Comics.[2] Her story includes many references to sexism in the American comic book industry as well as tales of struggles with her health.[3]
D'Orazio's blog was widely commented on and discussed in publications and forums related to comic book criticism.[4][5][6]
In 2008 she was announced as the writer for a new Cloak and Dagger miniseries from Marvel Comics, which was never published, though she later wrote several other stories for Marvel.[7] She is also developing a creator-owned title called Vamptopia, an "Anne Rice meets Quentin Tarantino meets Kurt Vonnegut Jr."[8] story which she is looking to adapt into various multi-media. D'Orazio is also involved in film, and has had her piece "Fathom" displayed at the Invisible Film Series hosted by New Vision Cinema and the Millennium Film Workshop. In July 2007,[9] she was announced as the co-host and videocaster for New Rage Order for Comic-Con International.
D'Orazio, along with her husband David Gallaher, was interviewed by Shari Goldhagen for Penthouse magazine.[10]
She is now the editor of MTV.com subsidiary MTV Geek.[11]
In September 2007, D'Orazio was named national president of the Friends of Lulu organization.[12]