Career
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 of her. [15] The issue was covered extensively in the comics press. [16] [1]
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