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

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

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

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

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.'

From 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.

From 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!'

From 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!

From Kelly Sue DeConnick

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

From Kelly Sue DeConnick

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

From Kelly Sue DeConnick

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