Leigh Dragoon

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Leigh Dragoon
Born (1976-05-06) May 6, 1976 (age 48)
Plattsburgh, New York, U.S.
Area(s)Writer, Illustrator

Leigh Dragoon is a professional American comics writer and illustrator.

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Career

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

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

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References

  1. ↑ "2006 Friends of Lulu Award Winners". The Beat. July 21, 2006. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Children's Books for Spring: H". Publishers Weekly . February 16, 2009.
  3. ↑ Sunu, Steve (May 26, 2010). "Dragoon and Myler Head to 'Fraggle Rock'". Comic Book Resources.
  4. ↑ Truitt, Brian (April 18, 2011). "First look: 'Vampire Academy' bites into graphic-novel market". USA Today .
  5. ↑ "Legend: the Graphic Novel".
  6. ↑ "Prodigy: the Graphic Novel".
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Dragoon, Leigh [@ldragoon] (16 November 2023). "Autistic author checking in: Seconded" (Tweet). Retrieved 31 July 2024– via Twitter.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Adventure Time#Other literature
  12. ↑ Adventure Time#Other literature
  13. ↑ Adventure Time#Other literature


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