Valerie D'Orazio

D'Orazio was hired as assistant editor at Acclaim in 1997. She joined the Creative Services Department at DC Comics in 2000. In 2002,[2] 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 a series of posts about her experiences with sexism in the American comic book industry, fandom, and her health struggles, entitled Goodbye to Comics.[3][4] Soon afterward, in the period 2007–2010,[5] D'Orazio was repeatedly bullied and harassed online by Chris Sims, an independent blogger.[6]

It was announced at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con that D'Orazio would be writing a five-part Cloak and Dagger limited series for Marvel.[7][8] The series was never published.

D'Orazio served as a judge for the 2009 Glyph Comics Awards.[9]

D'Orazio was President of Friends of Lulu,[10] a non-profit organization that promoted women comic book creators and readers.[11] She served from 2007 to 2010, after which the group was disbanded.[12][13]

From 2010 to 2013, D'Orazio was the editor of MTV.com subsidiary MTV Geek.[14]

In 2015, when Chris Sims was hired as a writer for Marvel, D'Orazio wrote about his prior harassment and bullying.[15] The issue was covered extensively in the comics press.[16][1]

D'Orazio was previously married to comic book writer David Gallaher.[17]

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