Occupation: Writer Birth: July 15, 1970
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 w….
Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted]..
If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right..
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 yo….
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 f….
Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking for….
I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I ….
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 m….
There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies -….
Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, th….
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 confusin….
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be..
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 n….
I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job..
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want..
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.….
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 weakne….
When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has ….
I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. ….
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 l….
I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore..