My friend, the photographer Kyle Cassidy tweeted about this tumblr designed to dispel the myth that men aren’t interested in reading comics by and about strong, diverse, interesting women. As an author who feels it’s very important to have strong smart women characters in my books I decided this was a project that I wanted to support. I thought it would be fun to send in a picture of me reading Birds of Prey since I was recently drawn back into reading comics in part by the work of the wonderful writing and stories of Gail Simone’s run on Birds of Prey. So I called up another photographer friend Matthew A Kuchta who did my most recent couple of author photos as well as the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe shoot with my wife and I at Neil Gaiman’s lamppost and asked if he’d be interested. We decided that since I did a lot of my comics reading while inverting after a workout it would be fun to play off that. This picture is the result.