I really, really love your work. It's so unusual in comics (or any scifi/fantasy medium) to see a Bechdel test pass, let alone stories about women that don't create ridiculous pedestals or offensive caricatures. I actually used Birds of Prey to get my frie

Thank you for the kind words!

I had a dream of what Bop could be, and fortunately, I had mostly female editors who were willing to stand by it in the early days when the idea of a female team book that didn’t use up all the usual dude-driven tropes was still pretty wild.

I have to say again, I have to give huge, huge props to Chuck Dixon and Jordan Gorfinkle who created and wrote the book prior to me, they set up the whole thing and a lot of the most powerful female stuff came from their run. I disagree with darn near everything political with Chuck but conservative or not, he put his money where his mouth is with Bop and wrote a book unlike anything else out there, that actually WAS empowering to female readers. It acknowledged they existed.

I didn’t build that, as the saying is goes…Chuck and Jordan did.

I am very proud of what we had in Bop, which was many, many female leads, full of their own agency and motivation, who could care about each other and disagree with each other in a way we almost never see in action stories in the media.

Answering the question…I was poor as a kid, lived on a farm with no tv in the middle of nowhere. Comics were a bit of a luxury. I would read any comic I got until it was in tatters, really.

The first comic that made me a FAN was a Justice League comic. I should have been hopelessly lost…it was the middle chapter of a three parter, I think. It had the Justice Society guest-starring. It had a million characters and tons of continuity. And I got HOOKED by that. They always say that stuff turns readers on, but it hooked me good.

I didn’t know comics were monthly. I didn’t realize that since I’d gotten the comic second hand, the rest of the story wouldn’t just BE there at the only store in town that sold comics. So I kept showing up waiting for it to be there.

I got inspired to get into the industry by lots of things…the great Devin Grayson was making comics, that made it seem like something women could actually do. But the big one is, I had a parody column that editors and creators liked, and they drafted me. I was reluctant at first, but now I’m glad!