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" Not long after I started posting the first 'Nimona' pages online, a literary agent reached out to me, and I ended up signing with him before I returned to school for my senior year. "

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" 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

" I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality. "

" 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. "

" I went to Maryland Institute College of Art, and I studied illustration there. "

" I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do. "

" I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience. "

" Support the female voice in all its forms. Support other female creators and work to make an environment that is inclusive and allows female-led projects to thrive organically. "

" I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident. "

" '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. "

" People are like, 'Are Nimona and Ballister romantic?' And I'm like, 'No! Of course not.' 'Well, are Ballister and Goldenloin in a relationship?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, okay.' "

" 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

I Can

" Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out. "

" I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all. "

" Hopefully, comics will be enough to support me after I graduate. "

Noelle Stevenson

Support

Comics

" Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them. "

" I was always looking for the female characters in sci-fi and fantasy who were more than just the girlfriend. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters. "