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

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

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

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.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

I'm not a really big comic book person. I know the typical ones - 'Spider-Man' and 'Wonder Woman' and 'Storm' and that stuff. But don't quiz me, because I'm not good at things like that.

By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

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.

At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.