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" I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it. "

Noelle Stevenson

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" 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. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had. "

Noelle Stevenson

" Not long after I started posting the first 'Nimona' pages online, a literary agent reached out to me, and I ended up signing with him before I returned to school for my senior year. "

Noelle Stevenson

" There's a whole world of people out here whose experiences are not being reflected in the media that they're reading. And that does affect the way we view ourselves... and the people we think we can be. "

Noelle Stevenson

" 'Winnie the Pooh's Grand Adventure' - the movie where Rabbit adopts a baby bird and raises her, and then the bird grows up and flies away and leaves him - I cried. "

Noelle Stevenson

" 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. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I was always looking for the female characters in sci-fi and fantasy who were more than just the girlfriend. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality. "

Noelle Stevenson

" Social media is basically the entire reason I have a career right now. Like everything, my readership for 'Nimona' came because I was active on Tumblr. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I've been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on the big screen is completely mind-blowing. "

Noelle Stevenson

" Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice. "

Noelle Stevenson

" 'Runaways' was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I'm hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be. "

Noelle Stevenson

" 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. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience. "

Noelle Stevenson

" 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. "

Noelle Stevenson

" The good thing about doing a comic that's entirely my own voice as a debut is that people approached me with similar jobs, with stuff that they knew that I could do justice to because they had read what I'd already done. It meant that I was getting jobs that I was actually interested in, and I didn't have to prove myself on someone else's property. "

Noelle Stevenson

" Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them. "

Noelle Stevenson

" It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do. "

Noelle Stevenson

" Like a lot of young women, I went through an entire period where I hated female characters - I didn't want to read about them! I thought I was going to be the cool girl who was not like other girls. "

Noelle Stevenson

" There are some things that are more appropriate for different audiences. But the goal with all ages is to create comics that anyone can read, that don't talk down to kids. Kids can handle a lot more than people think. "

Noelle Stevenson

" The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I swear slightly more when there aren't children around, but not that much. "

Noelle Stevenson

" I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her. "

Noelle Stevenson

" 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. "

Noelle Stevenson

" Support the female voice in all its forms. Support other female creators and work to make an environment that is inclusive and allows female-led projects to thrive organically. "

Noelle Stevenson

" We can make this industry and this environment and comic book shops and comic book conventions and comic books themselves, we can make them a thing that is accessible to everybody so that nobody feels unwelcome, and nobody feels like this isn't their place. "

Noelle Stevenson

" 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. "

Noelle Stevenson

" It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome. "

Noelle Stevenson

" Hopefully, comics will be enough to support me after I graduate. "

Noelle Stevenson