I love the energy the comics and drawings in the book have - they flow from panel to panel to panel-less to whatever Stevenson needs to create to express herself. The thing I didn’t know about: her geeky fan art! It’s fabulous and fun. My favorite moment: the hug she gets at her first pride parade. Her book is a triumph because it doesn’t fixate on every moment and minute detail, and she represents her life in moments and yearly summaries using comics and drawings and a lot of words, too. Her life is a triumph in large part because of how she dealt with her anxiety and figured out her sexual orientation. This is her biography of sorts covering the years 2011 (when she was 19) through 2020, a period during which she took her first comics class, became a creative superstar on the internet for her fan art (and in the real world for her art art), and fell in love. Stevenson is the writer/illustrator of Nimona, wrote Lumberjanes, and went on to be show runner and executive producer of Netfix’s She-Ra relaunch. The fire never goes out: a memoir in pictures by noelle stevenson.
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