Kelly Sue DeConnick (twitter, tumblr, comicbookdb) started out writing comics by working on English-language adaptations of manga. Her work on 30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella led to job after job that eventually brought her to overseeing taking Carol Danvers from "Ms." Marvel to "Captain" Marvel, a long-overdue promotion.

Show Notes and Links

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• Excerpted on ESN's Giant Size 18: Permission to Kill Thanos (31 October 2014)
• Join up with the Carol Corps and punch holes in the sky of your own. Iron Man used to be "minor league" too...

• Ms. Marvel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Martha Ackmann, Lynn Sherr)

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• The ballet about the creepy old man who makes a pretty girl-shaped robot is Coppélia. 

• How to Suppress Women's Writing (Joanna Russ)

• This interview was originally posted on 17 November 2012 as a part of the original 38-episode run of Giant Size (then an interview show) on the 5by5 network. It was re-published on 31 October 2014 using its original posting date to maintain a cohesive, "canonical" back catalogue.