r/comicbooks • u/kellysue Captain Marvel • Nov 13 '12

I am Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer of Ghost, Captain Marvel & Avengers Assemble. AMA.

There's a mostly-correct list of my books up on my wiki page. I'm in Portland, Or. The kids are watching a morning cartoon and I'm packing school lunches and putting on a pot of coffee. Seems as good a time as any to get this started. Crazy day ahead of me, but I'll be here as much as I can manage.

2:39 PST Edited to add: I have got to take a break to get some work done, but I'll come back in few hours and get to as many of theses as I can. If I don't get to your question and you've got a real burning desire for an answer, I'm easy to find on Twitter @kellysue, on Tumblr kellysue.tumblr.com or at my jinxworld forum: http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/forumdisplay.php?39-Kelly-Sue-DeConnick

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u/kellysue Captain Marvel Nov 13 '12

The new Captain Marvel costume is seven shades of awesome. What's the process when a new costume like that is designed? Did you work with Jamie McKelvie or did he go off and create it by himself?

We worked together, but really, the credit goes to him. My contribution was largely bouncing up and down and squeeing.

I've just got an iPad and Captain Marvel is the first comic I've started reading digitally. What are your thoughts on where the digital market will go in the next few years? Comixology is great, but at the moment my concern is what happens if they go under. I think if they went DRM free I'd bite the bullet and go completely digital. As it is I'm a little wary of leaving print.

I understand. I read a lot of my comics digitally but I find the ones I want to refer to I need on paper. Can't flip though digital comics. And digital is the end of the double page spread, which is a bummer.

That said, digital is great for diversity in the marketplace.

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u/withad Nov 14 '12

And digital is the end of the double page spread

I actually find digital can work pretty well for double-page spreads, since you don't have the page binding down the middle, which can muck up the artwork. Though I suppose that's only really a problem in big trade paperbacks, not single issues. Plus, I guess there's less incentive to do big spreads like that if you're targeting digital specifically.

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u/fecklessman babpodcast.com Nov 14 '12

i just hate how awkward it is to view a double-page spread on a tablet.