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It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.