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" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Seeing
Animation
Big
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" 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
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Art
Work
Three
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Character
Important
Kind
" I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident. "
Noelle Stevenson
Get
Comics
Accident
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Time
Myself
Media
" 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
Young
Women
Want
" 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 feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience. "
Noelle Stevenson
Feel
Smart
Experience
" Social media is basically the entire reason I have a career right now. Like everything, my readership for 'Nimona' came because I was active on Tumblr. "
Noelle Stevenson
Now
Social Media
Reason
" '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
" Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out. "
Noelle Stevenson
Something
Kids
Going
" 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 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
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Myself
Like
Open
" 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
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
Prove
Love
She
" 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
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
You
Distance
Escape
" 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. "
Noelle Stevenson
World
Reading
People
" I think almost anyone is capable of doing things that are evil or hurtful or harmful. "
Noelle Stevenson
Things
Think
Evil
" 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
" '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
" 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
" It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do. "
Noelle Stevenson
Group
Knowledge
Everyone
" 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
" 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
" It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome. "
Noelle Stevenson
Welcome
Figure
Hard
" 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
" I swear slightly more when there aren't children around, but not that much. "
Noelle Stevenson
Children
Swear
Much
" 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