I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
Kelly Sue DeconnickRead
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that storytelling through comics is not limited to any specific gender.
Kelly Sue Deconnick highlights the intrinsic nature of storytelling in comics, asserting that it is a medium that transcends gender boundaries. She points out that storytelling, particularly through visual mediums, has always been accessible to everyone, including girls, and challenges the stereotype that comics are primarily a male domain.
In practice
In a speech about diversity in media, I would use this quote to promote inclusiveness in storytelling.
I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.
I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
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