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 knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit itβor when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.
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