Hello Gail! I was just wondering at what point you started looking at comics as something you could see yourself creating versus just reading? And was that jump from an "outsider" who could feel free to talk about how women were portrayed in comics to an "

I was drafted. The first few people who asked me to write comics, I turned them all down because I was a hairdresser and I thought I would be taking work from a ‘real’ writer. That was honestly my thinking. It was people like Jeph Loeb and Adam Hughes and Ty Templeton who told me that thinking was nonsense and that almost everyone was drafted in in some way or another.

So I was the last person in line to actually believe I might be able to write comics, and I have to give major props to people like Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek and others who helped me understand how to do it.

As for the second part, outsider, insider, whatever, I am never going to stop speaking out about things I think are wrong. I’ve criticized many things my publishers have done and I get crap for it all the time. But I don’t know what else to say, I feel like we owe it to the industry we all love to be truthful.