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" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
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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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Exercise
Create
Kind
" 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 Am
Been
Perspective
" 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
Mistake
Care
Class
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Book
First Time
Time
" I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality. "
Noelle Stevenson
Want
Well
Sexuality
" It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome. "
Noelle Stevenson
Welcome
Figure
Hard
" 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
Book
Place
Nobody
" I think technology is changing and growing, and the best approach to have is to be self-aware and aware of what's going on around you and also have some idea of who you are and how to make that ever-changing climate work in your favor. "
Noelle Stevenson
Think
You
Your
" I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds! "
Noelle Stevenson
Fun
Career
Freedom
" '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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Story
She
School
" I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue. "
Noelle Stevenson
Think
Being
Comics
" 'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it. "
Noelle Stevenson
Book
You
Lying
" I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there. "
Noelle Stevenson
Maryland
Illustration
College
" 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
History
Perfect
Great
" 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
Rules
Place
Path
" '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
Story
Superhero
Rules
" 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
People
Goal
Create
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
You
Life
Power
" I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it. "
Noelle Stevenson
Characters
Love
Quite
" 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.' "
Noelle Stevenson
Characters
Always
Like
" 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
Myself
Voice
Good
" 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
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Kind
World
Just
" 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
Think
Knowledge
Work
" I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights. "
Noelle Stevenson
Medieval
Than
Story
" It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do. "
Noelle Stevenson
Group
Knowledge
Everyone
" The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters. "
Noelle Stevenson
Egypt
Movie
First
" The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself. "
Noelle Stevenson
My Own
Boss
Shots
" 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
Lost
Baby
People
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Real
Me
I Can