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Comics may be home toyoung detectives, but now theyre also home tonewsgirls.
Blues always been this sort of androgynous character.
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The gender changed depending on the story I was working on.
But then in the next version of the story, which was completely different, Blue became a boy.
In thenextversion of the story, it just kept changing depending on what kind of story it was.
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I finally ended up with the story that I pitched Scholastic.
In that case, Blue was a girl who was disguised as a newsboy.
Ive always loved stories.
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I just love the amount of control it gives me and the audience.
Quick fix, Ill just be a boy for a little while.
But that never went away and now she has to deal with the consequences of it.
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One of the big themes in the comic is war and how people write and report on it.
Theyd respond with phrases like, Youll understand when youre older.
Well say, Oh thats none of my business.
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Theres nothing I can do.
But I also watched a lot of anime and cartoons growing up.
Like Studio Ghibli,Iron Giant, andAvatar the Last Airbender.
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In the comic, there are certain types of technology and not others.
There was a lot of focus on the early 20th century.
So this is sort of what the world ofNewsPrintsis set in.
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The world ofNewsPrintsis sort of in a transitional period where theyre going from steam to diesel.
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