Comics Alliance Interview
05.03.2010
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Lady Snowblood
Kelly Sue DeConnick
kellysue.com
About
Photo by Doug Hesse.Kelly Sue DeConnick lives in Portland, OR, with her husband, writer Matt Fraction and little Henry Leo. They are expecting their second child, a girl they'll call "Tallulah," in April 2010.
Professionally, DeConnick writes comics and adapts manga into English. Credits include the English scripts for Kare First Love, Black Cat, Sexy Voice and Robo and Blue Spring.
She co-wrote 30 Days of Night: Eben & Stella with Steve Niles for artist Justin Randall.
For more a detailed CV, see ABOUT.
Contact: kellysue [at] gmail [dot] com.
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Marvel’s SIF: Swordplay & Bloodshed, That’s More Her Speed
Two Sif-related items this morning!
1) Ryan tweeted a little teaser image here; and
2) The first Sif-related interview is up. It’s at Newsarama, right here.
Here’s an excerpt:
Nrama: I have but one simple question for you as a writer: What makes you dig Sif?
DeConnick: I think it’s the same thing explains my fondness for women-of-vengeance movies and the Japanese pinky violence films of the 1970s. I think… I mean, I’m a five foot tall short-tempered woman of Sicilian heritage and when someone or something pisses me off—which happens, I’m somewhat ashamed to admit, on a regular basis—it’s neither socially nor ethically acceptable for me to pick up a baseball bat and crack heads. But boy… I entertain the notion about once a day. So there’s that fantasy element to Sif.
And then—stepping away from my own character defects for a moment—there’s the age-old mythic appeal of the Hero.
Nrama: And of course: What is it that compels us mortals to partake in the epic tales of Asgard?
DeConnick: What makes us read fiction at all? What’s the appeal of parable or fable? It’s the same thing that made me a nut for Greek mythology when I was a kid—these over-sized tales push our power-fantasy buttons, sure, but they also help us order our understanding of each other and our world.
I mean, we’re getting into Joseph Campbell stuff here, but this is marrow, you know? I think imagination and myth are as hard-wired into us as our appetites for sustenance and love.
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