Now, she writes comic books of her own in Portland, Ore., where she lives with her husband and two children. “I think my mom had the notion that ‘Wonder Woman’ was a feminist to me.” In exchange for chores, Kelly Sue got Wonder Woman comics. “It was the 70s there was a feminist movement,” she told the Air Force in an interview this past fall. But she was also inched toward comics, and feminism, by her mother. Raised in the 1970s on Air Force bases around the world, Kelly Sue became a comic book fan in part because the bases had loads of comics floating around. Last summer she told a panel on women in comics that she was “willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn’t have to,” and it’s through that lens-discomforting others as a way to actively oppose the essentializing notions of “what women love”-that I think Kelly Sue takes on her rare, fiery, quality. It’s easy to see the temper in Kelly Sue DeConnick, ready to be unleashed. “Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?” A lot of well intentioned, genuinely nice people think like that. “Women are going to like the books that appeal to them,” she said. The writer Kelly Sue DeConnick told me a story about a retailer who recommends the same book, Fables, to every woman who enters his store.
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