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" If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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" Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" 'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!' "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" One of the things I enjoyed when working in manga was when I couldn't tell where anything was going because there weren't narrative tropes and structures I was used to. After doing it for seven years, I got to the point where I did see structures. I did start to learn, but at first I didn't know where it was going. It was very exciting for me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I'm not particularly good at page layouts. I make an effort to stay out of the way of the artist. What I'll try to express instead is, 'What we're going for here on this page is the idea of the containment of these women's bodies. So I want them framed as though they're bursting out of the panel borders.' "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?' "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I don't think working in superheroes is slumming it. I'm proud of this form. I like this. There's nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There's nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There's nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I want young women to see my name on 'Avengers Assembled' and to know that there are women who write mainstream superhero comics, and if it is something that interests them, it can be done. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I used to be good at clothes shopping and whatnot - at least ,I think I was! - but at some point after two kids and a career that worked out better than I ever could have imagined, I looked up from my desk and realized that I wore the same three t-shirts and 15-year-old jeans every day. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" 'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I am a nerd among nerds. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" If you have a smartphone - and you have a smartphone - then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don't have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

" Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick