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Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

I’m not particularly good at page layouts. I make an effort to stay out of the way of the artist. What I’ll try to express instead is, ‘What we’re going for here on this page is the idea of the containment of these women’s bodies. So I want them framed as though they’re bursting out of the panel borders.’

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl… I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

If you have a smartphone – and you have a smartphone – then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don’t have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

Girls have always read comics. There’s nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He’s seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

I need to go where I’m not comfortable. I think that’s the artist’s job.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

Yes, the Bechdel Test. It’s named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

Anybody who’s read ‘Pretty Deadly’ knows that I tend to savor an immersive, ‘You’ll figure it out as you go!’ style. ‘Pretty Deadly’ really does not hold your hand.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn’t suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

I think I’m very strong at dialogue, I think I’m very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

I hate when I get asked, ‘What’s it like to be a woman in comics?’

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

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 DeConnick

I think women have every right to feel like they’re the protagonists in their own stories.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

I am a nerd among nerds.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

There’s nothing less funny than trying to force funny.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

Comics are not theatre – there’s a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you’re a hack.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

‘Pretty Deadly’ is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals’ story follows Sarah’s family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, ‘Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!’

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

Going into the second arc, I’m making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I’m trying to make ‘Pretty Deadly’ more accessible by being more clear in the writing.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick

I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it’s good for me.

– Kelly Sue DeConnick