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" 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. "

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" 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

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Woman

Advice

" I am a nerd among nerds. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

I Am

Nerd

" For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring. "

" You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Trying

Mad

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

" I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers. "

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

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Somehow

Different

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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

Know

See

" I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Women

Feel

" If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense! "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast. "

" In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting. "

" I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Choose

Think

" Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes. "

" I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Better

Kind

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

" 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. "

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

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Comics

Get

" 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

Romantic

My Life

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

" Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas. "

" I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Child

Strange

" Going into the second arc, I'm making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I'm trying to make 'Pretty Deadly' more accessible by being more clear in the writing. "