I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved. Kate Leth Read Quote
I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn’t sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about. Kate Leth Read Quote
Honestly, before I started working at the comic shop, I was not a huge comic reader. I grew up reading ‘Archie’ and have an incredible love/hate relationship with Archie Comics. I got back into it when I started living with some roommates who were really comics fanatics. Kate Leth Read Quote
Nobody’s made an impact like Raina Telgemeier or Kate Beaton. I think that indie creators, people making webcomics and graphic novels, are the ones to watch. Kate Leth Read Quote
I worked in a comic shop for five years, and the amount of titles I could excitedly recommend to teenage girls was pretty abysmal for awhile. Kate Leth Read Quote
The primary goal for me in doing a superhero series is to make it new-reader-friendly, so it might not be front-loaded with all this history, but you can be sure it will show up! Kate Leth Read Quote
I think a lot of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ was about the suburban world that Burton grew up in feeling like an outcast. I feel like there’s no way it’s not at least a little autobiographical from that standpoint. I always liked that. Kate Leth Read Quote
I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen ‘Edward Scissorhands’ enough times to know it by heart. That’s exciting: to work on something you feel like you really get. Kate Leth Read Quote
When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and ‘Nightmare before Christmas’ stuff. I saw ‘Sleepy Hollow’ a dozen times. Kate Leth Read Quote
The Valkyries were an idea that my boss and I came up with when, at the comic shop one day, I mentioned how great it would be if there were a girl gang for women working in comic shops. Kate Leth Read Quote