Talk about the cessation of DC's Minx line is reverberating through the journals of lots and lots of people I read today, and for good reason.

You can blame marketing, you can blame booksellers, you can blame the lack of female creators behind the line, or the fact that the books weren't in color, of the title of the imprint, or the fact that not all of the books were great...I just hope that people won't summarize that Minx went under because girls simply don't want to read comics.

Girls do want to read comics. They email me and send me letters to say so. Their parents do the same. I meet them at comic conventions, libraries, bookstores, comic stores, schools, and via my friends. They find personal inspiration in comics. They decide to start their own publishing companies and draw their own comics. They look for comics about interesting topics (nothing unusual there), and comics about characters they can identify with. They want comics that are made for them. They need comics that are made just for them.





I was asked by Shelly if I'd like to pitch, a couple of times. But I was already under multiple-book contract with Scholastic, creating the BSC books on a fairly tight schedule, with little room for other projects. It was pretty obvious that SMILE was not for them (too young for their demographic; nothing supernatural in the plot), so the idea was always that if I came up with something they might like, I would let them know. That day never came, and now it certainly never will. It's not to say that I would have necessarily submitted to Minx over another publisher, but it was nice to know that they were an option.