Leigh Dragoon
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| Leigh Dragoon | |
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| Born | May 6, 1976 Plattsburgh, New York, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Writer, Illustrator |
Leigh Dragoon is a professional American comics writer and illustrator.
Career
[edit]Leigh Dragoon's work first appeared in Girlamatic, publisher of her urban fantasy webcomic By the Wayside, which won Friends of Lulu's Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2006.[1] She contributed art to Sam Kieth's My Inner Bimbo graphic novel. In 2009 she wrote the script for the three-volume HarperCollins/Tokyopop manga series based on Frewin Jones' YA fantasy series The Faerie Path.[2] She also contributed a story to the Fraggle Rock Vol. 1 graphic novel published by Archaia Studios Press in 2010.[3] In 2011 she adapted the script for Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy graphic novel.[4] She also scripted the graphic novel adaptations of Marie Lu's Legend,[5] Prodigy, and Champion YA novels.[6] The adaptations are illustrated by Caravan Studio. She is currently working on a fantasy retelling graphic novel of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott to be published by Oni Press.
Personal life
[edit]Dragoon is non-binary[7] and a Reform Jew.[8] She has mentioned having autism,[9] obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and anxiety.[10]
Bibliography
[edit]- My Inner Bimbo (multiple artists, Sam Kieth, Oni Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-934964-12-5)
- The Faerie Path: Lamia's Revenge #1: The Serpent Awakens (artist Alison Acton, HarperCollins/Tokyopop, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-145694-7)
- The Faerie Path: Lamia's Revenge #2: The Memory of Wings (artist Alison Acton, HarperCollins/Tokyopop, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-145695-4)
- Fraggle Rock (multiple contributors, Archaia Studios Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-932386-42-4)
- Vampire Academy (artist Emma Vieceli, Razorbill, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59514-429-4)
- Frostbite (artist Emma Vieceli, Razorbill, 2012, ISBN 978-1595144300)
- Shadow Kiss (artist Emma Vieceli, Razorbill, 2013, ISBN 978-1595144317)
- Legend (artist Caravan Studio, Penguin Group LLC, 2015, ISBN 978-0399171895)
- Prodigy (artist Caravan Studio, Penguin Group LLC, 2016, ISBN 978-0399171901)
- Champion (artist Caravan Studio, Penguin Group LLC, 2017, ISBN 978-0451534347)
- Epic Tales from Adventure Time: Queen of Rogues, 2014. Penguin Random House. 26 June 2014. ISBN 978-0698171961.[11]
- Epic Tales from Adventure Time: The Lonesome Outlaw, 2015. Penguin Random House. 29 September 2015. ISBN 978-0399540110.[12]
- Epic Tales from Adventure Time: The Virtue of Ardor, 2016. Penguin Random House. 28 June 2016. ISBN 978-0451532886.[13]
- Little Women: Magic in Concord (forthcoming, Oni Press)
References
[edit]- ^ "2006 Friends of Lulu Award Winners". The Beat. July 21, 2006. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
- ^ "Children's Books for Spring: H". Publishers Weekly. February 16, 2009.
- ^ Sunu, Steve (May 26, 2010). "Dragoon and Myler Head to 'Fraggle Rock'". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ Truitt, Brian (April 18, 2011). "First look: 'Vampire Academy' bites into graphic-novel market". USA Today.
- ^ "Legend: the Graphic Novel".
- ^ "Prodigy: the Graphic Novel".
- ^ Dragoon, Leigh [@ldragoon] (18 July 2024). "Here's how frequently miserable it is to be frenemies with the majority of white women: I would rather take my chances befriending the average white man. I'm a non-binary Jewish woman person. For me it goes "man, white woman, white man, bear" in order of preference" (Tweet). Retrieved 31 July 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Dragoon, Leigh [@ldragoon] (30 July 2024). "Dear Orthodox Jewish Women I'm that bad non-binary Reform woman your fathers warned you about and your mothers secretly hoped and prayed you'd encounter" (Tweet). Retrieved 31 July 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Dragoon, Leigh [@ldragoon] (16 November 2023). "Autistic author checking in: Seconded" (Tweet). Retrieved 31 July 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Dragoon, Leigh [@ldragoon] (12 May 2023). "Having OCD and ADHD and anxiety means you're either chronically early to everything or chronically late. 🫠" (Tweet). Retrieved 31 July 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Adventure Time#Other literature
- ^ Adventure Time#Other literature
- ^ Adventure Time#Other literature
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