‘Powers of a squirrel, and also a girl’: Squirrel Girl and alternatives for women in superhero comic-books – an interview with Ryan North | Zendy

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‘Powers of a squirrel, and also a girl’: Squirrel Girl and alternatives for women in superhero comic-books – an interview with Ryan North

Author(s) -

Michael Goodrum

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

studies in comics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109

H-Index - 1

eISSN - 2040-3240

pISSN - 2040-3232

DOI - 10.1386/stic.7.1.161_7

Subject(s) - comics , girl , adventure , art , hamlet (protein complex) , art history , visual arts , literature , media studies , sociology , psychology , developmental psychology

Ryan North is a Canadian author who writes a host of comics, most notably Dinosaur Comics (www. qwantz.com, 2003-present), Adventure Time (2012–2014, winner of both an Eisner and a Harvey Award), The Midas Flesh (2013) and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (R. North and E. Henderson, 2015). North is also the creator of To Be Or Not To Be (2013), a choose-your-own-adventure version of Hamlet funded through Kickstarter, published as a book and also as a computer game. North has recently followed this with Romeo And/Or Juliet (2016).

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