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Kelly Sue DeConnick Biography

Kelly Sue DeConnick (born July 15, 1970) is an American comic book writer and editor and English–language adapter of manga. She is currently writing her creator–owned series Pretty Deadly and Bitch Planet for Image Comics.

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The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

Book, Comic, Customers, Reader, Retailers, Trying

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.

Character, Cover, Dialogue, Strong, Think, Thinking

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

Book, Creator, Mainstream, Owned, Sense

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

Artist, Book, Comfortable, Job, Jobs, Think

The dirty little secret about comics is that the wall to getting published is actually not that high. You can publish your own comic. You can have your comic printed by the same people that print Marvel and DC and Image's comics for, I think, it's about $2,000 for a print run. So you can Kickstart it and get your own comic made. It depends on what is considered success to you. So if you need to be published by the Big Two to feel that you've made it, well, you should start working very hard.

Dirty, High, Publish, Published, Running, Wall

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

People, Read, Soup, Stories, Trying, Writing

Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

Fall, Icon, Reflective, Steinem, Thinking, War

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

Book, Buy, I Promise, Promise, Seriously

I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.

Biggest, Choices, Conscious, Guess, Thinking, Weakness

What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.

Active, Please, Skewed, Talking, Worry, Writing

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

Ifs, Interested, Not Interested, Right, Work

I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore.

Deleted, Expletive, Expletives, Say, Think, Thinking

I just did an arc with Warren Ellis - and no one else on the planet could get away with this, because I think this is like harassment? - But Warren felt like there was a depiction of Spider-Woman where it looked like her waist perhaps didn't contain any internal organs. And he suggested very quietly. . . 'You should fix that, or else I will come to your house and nail your feet to the floor and set your house on fire. '. . . And it totally got fixed!

Feet, Fire, Floor, House, Thinking, Waist

There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all.

Differences, Feelings, Confusing, Impression, Feeling, Explain

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