In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
From G. Willow Wilson
I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.
I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'
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