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" I think almost anyone is capable of doing things that are evil or hurtful or harmful. "

Noelle Stevenson

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights. "

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" I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important to me, to set up a different character who would be the point-of-view character for the story. "

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" 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. "

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" Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them. "

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" 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. "

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" '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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident. "

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" '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. "

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" The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself. "

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

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" 'Nimona' was originally a vague idea I had when I was in high school, when I was just getting into shapeshifting characters. It was a straightforward superhero story at the time. Nimona was named Nightshade, and she had an eyepatch for some reason. There was nothing really special about it, though. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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

" I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue. "

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. "

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" 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 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. "

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" The first time I shopped at a comic shop, it was because I had been published in a comic book. As I became more involved in comics, I started going more and more, usually to support my friends or lady-friendly comics. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out. "

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" 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. "

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

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