There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too.' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired,… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share
My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share
What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share
The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you,… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
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