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This Week in Marvel

NYCC 2017 - Gabby Rivera

This Week in Marvel

Marvel

Arts, Tv & Film

4.2982 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We speak with the woman behind America Chavez's ongoing adventures!

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0:00.0

You're going to. Hey everybody this is Ben Morse the editorial director of digital media over at

0:26.7

Marvel hanging out in the wee waiting hours of New York Comic-Con 2017 by my

0:32.2

side is

0:33.2

Assistant editor Tucker Marcus really keeping the energy up in spite of the four days

0:39.0

but I hope I hope that reads.

0:42.2

Yeah I'll tell you what's exciting though. What's exciting is we've got Gabby Rivera the writer of America with us

0:48.5

Gabby, welcome to the show. Oh my goodness, thank you so much for having me.

0:52.8

Absolutely I want to get the origin because I don't know if we've ever gotten this

0:56.3

for me before how exactly you got involved with the America series how were you brought in

1:00.3

did you pitch where you pitch two what was going on how did you pitch, were you pitch two?

1:03.4

What was going on?

1:04.2

How did you end up linking up with America

1:06.5

to form this dream team?

1:08.1

Well, America came my way because Will Moss,

1:12.0

the editor, Howard Duck, other titles, he's incredible.

1:17.0

They were like, Yo, Will, they being Marvel, we need you to do this America book.

1:22.0

And so Will went out into the world and read like

1:25.0

Latina authors and YA and went outside the comic world and he found my book

1:30.7

Juliet takes a breath.

1:32.6

Love the voice of that.

1:33.8

And then all of a sudden I'm at my day job, right?

1:35.8

And I get this email from Marvel.

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