American - Writer | July 15, 1970 -
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
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I am a nerd among nerds.
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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.
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Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.
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For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring.
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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.
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I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.
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One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
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You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast.
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Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.
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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.
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I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'
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