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All Quotes by author - Noelle Stevenson
" Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started. "
Prove
Love
She
" Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life. "
You
Distance
Escape
" Hopefully, comics will be enough to support me after I graduate. "
Me
Support
Comics
" I always have a tendency to take on too many things. "
Things
Take
Many
" I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all. "
I Am
Been
Perspective
" I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident. "
Get
Comics
Accident
" I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights. "
Medieval
Than
Story
" I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as I would've been at 12 or 13 years old. "
Like
Feel
Myself
" I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience. "
Feel
Smart
Experience
" I kind of understood inherently - and I wasn't really conflicted about this - that comics were not for me or by people who looked like me. That was just something that I accepted about the world. "
Kind
World
Just
" I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters. "
Know
Hands
Kid
" I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it. "
Characters
Love
Quite
" I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds! "
Fun
Career
Freedom
" I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind of pigeonholed early on as the gay character, and they would naturally end up with the other gay character who would emerge at some point as their love interest. "
Time
Myself
Media
" I really liked Quentin Blake, who did all of Roald Dahl's stuff. I don't think I really got Quentin Blake as a kid, but as I grew older, I really appreciated the kind of knowledge and the skill that went into those seemingly effortless drawings, and I really wanted to capture some of that in my own work. "
Think
Knowledge
Work
" I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality. "
Want
Well
Sexuality
" I swear slightly more when there aren't children around, but not that much. "
Children
Swear
Much
" I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of misogyny in its history as well. Like, in my first comics class, every single great comic creator we studied was male. "
History
Perfect
Great
" It felt like a huge risk when I first started putting my comic online. It was very scary to put myself out there that way and to open up something that I cared about very dearly - and to be the only creator involved with it. "
Myself
Like
Open
" I think almost anyone is capable of doing things that are evil or hurtful or harmful. "
Things
Think
Evil
" I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue. "
Think
Being
Comics
" I think my lack of 'Pokemon' knowledge and complete confusion at the descriptions makes people think I'm adorable, like a lost baby duckling or your grandmother trying to use an iPad. "
Lost
Baby
People
" I think technology is changing and growing, and the best approach to have is to be self-aware and aware of what's going on around you and also have some idea of who you are and how to make that ever-changing climate work in your favor. "
Think
You
Your
" It's easy to feel like you don't have any control over yourself or your life or your body as a teen - everything is changing so fast, and a lot of it feels so outside of your power. I think that's why a lot of teens form really strong attachments to fictional characters or celebrities, draw their own characters or write themselves into fan fiction. "
You
Life
Power
" It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do. "
Group
Knowledge
Everyone
" It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome. "
Welcome
Figure
Hard
" It took me a really long time to get past all of that internalized dissociation with being female that I was being given by media. "
Long Time
Time
Past
" It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate. "
Art
Work
Three
" It was not until Web comics that I saw stories about women and stories by women and things that were aimed specifically at female readership. It was just kind of this free-for-all that was achieving something amazing with creativity. That was where I got my start. "
Start
Kind
Creativity
" I've always had a lot of story ideas rattling around in my head, but 'Nimona' felt very tangible very early. I knew the ending. So I just started making more and more pages, and then I made it a webcomic, like, 'OK, I'm really gonna do this.' "
Always
Early
Ending
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