Kelly Sue DeConnick recently mentioned in an interview that her gender has come up in every interview she's ever done. How often would you say it comes up for you?

It still comes up a lot, a LOT, and sometimes in a goofy way. Sometimes there’s a passive-aggressiveness to it.

But it’s not every time any more, I am sure it won’t be every time for Kelly Sue very shortly. Some of it is novelty, and a bit of surprise, and once people are more used to seeing your name, those things wear off and you are judged a bit more for your work.

Not entirely so, but more so.

Kelly Sue DeConnick is going to be a major name in comics for as long as she wants to be, it’s clear to everyone who has read her work.

I am not a big fan of interviews, I do most of them to be polite or because a publisher asks for them. But I often find that the so-called fan press does a more honest and faithful job than the legitimate press, who are often full of their own agenda, or trying too hard to make a point of their own so your words become fluid things to manipulate.

I just read an interview I did a year ago, lovely interviewer, a very nice person, but they made my message to readers, regarding lgbtq characters and stories, “be patient.”

That is NOT my message on this topic. Never, never, never. So it’s a bit frustrating that that is how the story is written.

Interviews are frustrating for a lot of reasons.