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" I was always looking for the female characters in sci-fi and fantasy who were more than just the girlfriend. "
Noelle Stevenson
Girlfriend
Always
Fantasy
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" 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. "
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" Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn't really become real to me until I draw them. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I've always liked shape-shifter characters. I gravitated towards characters like Mystique from 'X-Men,' Zam Wesell from 'Star Wars,' and Tonks from 'Harry Potter.' "
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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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" Hopefully, comics will be enough to support me after I graduate. "
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" 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. "
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" I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights. "
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" I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there. "
Noelle Stevenson
Maryland
Illustration
College
" 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. "
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Seeing
Animation
Big
" 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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Three
" 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. "
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Long Time
Time
Past
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Start
Kind
Creativity
" I think almost anyone is capable of doing things that are evil or hurtful or harmful. "
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Things
Think
Evil
" Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them. "
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Comics
Them
Some
" 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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Know
Hands
Kid
" 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. "
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History
Perfect
Great
" '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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She
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" I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident. "
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Accident
" 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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Baby
People
" 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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Create
Kind
" The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters. "
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Egypt
Movie
First
" 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. "
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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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" I always have a tendency to take on too many things. "
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Take
Many
" I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality. "
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Well
Sexuality
" 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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" 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. "
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