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 am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.
We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
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