“We were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.” IfsWayBookCharacterSpeakRealizingReaderDaughterFemaleTreatsProfessionComicPregnantApologizingComic BookFemale CharactersWere Pregnant Author:Matt Fraction
“I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to be summoned or like it's the Loch Ness monster or seeing a shooting star. It's a physical act. It is a thing you do with your muscles and your body and your willpower. Watch, I'll show you: get a piece of paper. Get a pencil. Put the pencil on the paper and write the word 'something.'” PeopleWayWritingKindBookShowsFeelingsBodySpeakStarsWatchesPiecesSeeingPaperYour BodyMonstersComicShootingMusclesComic BookPencilsWillpowerShooting StarLoch Ness Monster Author:Matt Fraction
“If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important - people being born and dying and everything else that's gonna happen today - if one gay kid in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, reads an X-Men comic and feels for a second like maybe they're not entirely alone in the world - that's amazing. I'll take it. Whatever size victory that is, I will take.” PeopleIfsMenWorldFeelsImportantBookHappensKidsTodayUniverseBornDyingVictoryGaySizeMissionsScalesComicCosmicComic BookWhat's ImportantFrivolousKansasX Men Author:Matt Fraction
“[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingBookIdeasShowsHappensWould BeGuyForeverWillingUnionsPhonesCome UpQuittingBarsComicGet BetterEditorsComic BookPhone CallsThings Are Getting Better Author:Matt Fraction
