Kelly Sue DeConnick's three-year-old comic-book series, Captain Marvel, featuring a female Marvel Comics character originally introduced in the late 1960s, has grown so popular among women that there’s now a Captain Marvel film in development, and the pilot turned superhero is rumored to have a role in the next Avengers movie. The boundary-pushing DeConnick also created such provocative comics as Pretty Deadly and Bitch Planet, and she and husband Matt Fraction recently signed a deal to develop TV shows. "I need to go where I'm not comfortable," she says. "I think that's the artist's job."

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