Noelle Stevenson

Noelle Stevenson
Noelle Stevenson (2015)
Residence	Los Angeles, California[1]
Alma mater	Maryland Institute College of Art
Occupation	American comics writer and artist
Known for	Nimona, Lumberjanes
Home town	Columbia, South Carolina[2]
Website	http://gingerhaze.com/

Noelle Stevenson is an American comics writer and artist, best known for the fantasy comic Nimona and the comics series Lumberjanes.

Education

Stevenson attended the Maryland Institute College of Art.^[3] During her junior year, she created her soon-to-be popular character Nimona as part of an assignment in one of her classes, whose adventurous story would later double as Stevenson's senior thesis in 2012.^[4]

Career

Stevenson was first noted as a fan artist, under the name "gingerhaze", for her "hipster Lord of the Rings" characters.^[5] She also created cover art for Rainbow Rowell's novel Fangirl. Stevenson gained additional notice for her fantasy comic Nimona (originally self-published as a webcomic), and as co-writer of the comics series Lumberjanes, which was recognized as Best New Series and Best Publication for Teens in the 2015 Eisner Awards.^[6]

Since 2015, she works as a writer for Marvel Comics on the comics Thor Annual^[7][8] and Runaways.^[9] She is also part of the writing team of Disney's animated TV series Wander Over Yonder, beginning with Season 2 in 2015.^[10]

The book version of her comic Nimona was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.^[11]

Bibliography

Graphic Novels

• Nimona (w/a, HarperCollins, 2015)

BOOM! Studios

• "The Sweater Bandit" (w/a, in Adventure Time with Fiona & Cake #1, January 2013, collected in Volume 1: Mathemagical Edition, tpb, 160 pages, 2013)
• "Desert Treasure" (w/a, in Adventure Time 2013 Summer Special, July 2013)
• Lumberjanes #1–17 (April 2014–August 2015)
  • Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holly (collects #1–4, w, with Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen, tpb, 128 pages, 2015)
  • Volume 2: Friendship to the Max (collects #5–8, w, with Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen, tpb, 112 pages, 2015)
  • Volume 3: A Terrible Plan (collects #9–12, w, with Shannon Watters and Carolyn Nowak, tpb, 112 pages, 2016)
• Sleepy Hollow 4 #1–4 (4-issue limited series, backup stories, November 2014–January 2015)
  • Sleepy Hollow: Volume 1 (tpb, 112 pages, 2015) collects:
    • "Movie Night" (w/a, in #1, 2014)
    • "At the Fair" (w/a, in #2, 4, 2014)
    • "Shopping" (w/a, in #3, 2015)

Marvel Comics

• Runaways vol. 4 #1–4 (4-issue limited series, August–November 2015)
  • Battleworld (tpb, 120 pages, 2015) collects:
    • "Doomed Youth" (w, with Sanford Greene, in #1–4, 2015)
• "Thor" (w, with Marguerite Sauvage, in Thor Annual #1, April 2015, collected in Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer?, hc, 136 pages, 2015)

DC Comics

• "Wonder World" (a, with James Tynion IV, in Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #23–24, February 2015, collected in Volume 2, tpb, 144 pages, 2015)

References

External links

• Stevenson's Blog
• Stevenson's Web Page