Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
Kelly Sue DeconnickRead
I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
Interpretation
Women play an essential role in shaping the future of superhero comics and the industry as a whole.
In this quote, Kelly Sue Deconnick emphasizes the significance of women's involvement in various aspects of the superhero comics industry, including creation, editing, consumption, and retail. She advocates for the inclusion and recognition of women's contributions, suggesting that their participation is crucial for innovation and growth within this artistic domain.
In practice
During a panel on comic book diversity, I quoted Kelly Sue Deconnick to highlight the importance of women in the industry.
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
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?
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
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