Molly Knox Ostertag

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Ostertag at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born
Molly Knox Ostertag

(1991-10-28) October 28, 1991 (age 33) [1] [2]
Spouse
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(m. 2019)​
Website www.mollyostertag.com

Molly Knox Ostertag (born October 28, 1991) is an American cartoonist and writer. Her work includes the animated series The Owl House , webcomic Strong Female Protagonist , the middle grade [3] graphic novel series (The Witch Boy, The Hidden Witch, and The Midwinter Witch), and on the series Tales of the Night Watchman . She was named one of Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 in 2021. [4]

Contents

Early life

Ostertag grew up in upstate New York. [5] [6] She attended Bard College and studied illustration and cartooning at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City, [5] where she graduated in 2014. [7] She moved from upstate New York to Los Angeles in 2016. [8]

Career

Comics

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Ostertag with Strong Female Protagonist writer Brennan Lee Mulligan

As a comics artist, Ostertag has been drawing the superhero webcomic Strong Female Protagonist written by Brennan Lee Mulligan since 2012, [9] and created the art for the fantasy comic Shattered Warrior written by Sharon Shinn (2017). Her first published work came in 2013 and 2014 when she drew two issues of Tales of the Night Watchman for So What? Press, "The Night Collector" (2013) and "It Came from the Gowanus Canal" (2014). The latter remains one of the series' best-selling issues. [10] [11] In 2016, some of her comics appeared in an anthology with other comic artists titled Chainmail Bikini. [12]

In 2017, Graphix published The Witch Boy, the first graphic novel written and drawn by Ostertag. It is the coming-of-age story of a young boy, Aster, who is intent on becoming a witch in a community where boys are expected to become shapeshifters. [5] Fox Animation acquired the film rights in May 2017, [7] and a sequel, The Hidden Witch, was published in 2018. [13] The third book in the series, The Midwinter Witch, was published in November 2019. [14] The Witch Boy was later described by Daniel Toy of CNN's Underscored as an "emotional, magical story [that] will grab young readers’ attention" which teaches readers the "importance of acceptance and love" [15] while reviewers said that the story of Aster, which begins in the first book, is "parable for gender conformity." [16] [17] Additionally, Aster's tomboy friend, [18] [19] Charlotte "Charlie," who has two dads, is described as not conforming to gender norms, even by the book's publisher, Scholastic. [20] [21] Other works of Ostertag's include the erotic comic Alleycat [22] and the comic How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death, for which she received the 2018 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story. [23]

Paste described Ostertag's character design as "deft and varied, with a thick, dark line that resembles that of Faith Erin Hicks", noting that she "mostly uses her figures' eyes and their body language to convey emotions." [24] A profile by SVA described her work as "consistently featur[ing] diverse casts of characters—multiracial, of differing gender expressions, sexual orientations, and abilities—whose adventures intertwine social justice and superheroes, peer pressure and magical powers", and noted that her "presiding interest lies in queer content in young adult work". [25] Additionally, Erica Friedman of Yuricon, a long time fan of Ostertag, praised her work, How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death, calling it a tale that will resonate with those "who have come through their own dark forests and transformed into their true selves." [26]

In 2021, an Ostertag graphic novel, The Girl From The Sea, was published. She described it as "teen summer romance graphic novel" set in Nova Scotia, focused on the story of a 15-year-old Korean Canadian girl named Morgan falling in love with a selkie named Keltie. [27] [lower-alpha 1] She noted that it is somewhat based on her experience spending summers at Wilneff Island in Nova Scotia as a kid and called the book her "first serious foray" into the romance genre. The Girl from the Sea was a finalist for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Original Graphic Novel/Anthology. [28]

In August 2021, Ostertag was among a group of creators with whom fellow comics writer Nick Spencer formed a deal with the subscription-based newsletter platform Substack to publish creator-owned comics stories, essays, and instructional guides on that platform. [29]

Animation

In animation, Ostertag has been working since 2014 as a designer for Star vs. the Forces of Evil and as a writer for The Owl House and ThunderCats Roar. [5] [25] In October 2020, she called on Amazon to let her make an animation "centered around Hobbit children in The Shire." [30] In January 2021, it was announced that Netflix was adapting her graphic novel, The Witch Boy, into an animated musical directed by Minkyu Lee. [31]

On December 11, 2020, a project by Ostertag, for Disney Television Animation under the name Neon Galaxy, was registered. [32] In September 2024, Ostertag announced that Neon Galaxy, a series set "in the distant future," was not moving forward at Disney, noting that it had been cancelled a few months prior despite production work for four and a half years and positive response from "kids who saw materials in early demographic testing" and songs by Betty Who. She also noted that it is a "weird, bad time" in the U.S. animation industry, with difficulty in getting series approved, and hoped The Animation Guild can win gains from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers during negotiations for a new contract, and said that "for now, this is a farewell" for Neon Galaxy while adding "maybe one day I’ll be back." [33]

Other writings

From July to September 2020, Ostertag published a The Lord of the Rings fanfiction titled "In All the Ways There Were" which shipped Frodo Baggins and Samwise "Sam" Gamgee together, a story which became relatively popular. [30] [34] She called the fan fiction an extension of her "Lord of the Rings obsession," even creating an alternate Twitter account on the subject, with the handle @hobbitgay, and stated she is also writing a romantic fan fiction "retelling the entire series from Sam Gamgee’s point of view." [27] Furthermore, she stated that she saw The Lord of the Rings as a romance and argued that she rarely sees exploration of "romance as transformative," portrayed, in fiction, with authenticity. Additionally, in 2019, Ostertag created a fan comic depicting a post-credits scene of The Return of the King . [35]

In August 2021, Ostertag began writing a Substack newsletter about graphic novels titled "In The Telling". [36] [37]

In October 2021, she announced that she would be releasing a graphic novel entitled "Darkest Night" on her Substack in weekly installments for paying subscribers, which would focus on a relationship between a teenage cis girl (Mags) and a teenage trans girl (Nessa), and will later be released to general subscribers. [38] [39] [40] The graphic novel will be published in a physical form, in a 480-page book, by Scholastic, in 2024. Ostertag called it a "laborious, really annoying process" and said she started the story from a "place of frustration." She also told TheGamer that she is ok with making "people uncomfortable" with her stories, and expressed a desire to have more "butch lesbians...fat characters...visibly trans characters...[and] super femme gay men" in her stories who are just "hanging out and existing" and said that despite abundance for queer media presently, people involved in productions for big companies are "afraid of getting it wrong". [40]

In media

In 2014, she appeared in the documentary She Makes Comics . [41]

Personal life

Ostertag is gay [lower-alpha 2] and married fellow cartoonist Nate "ND" Stevenson in September 2019. [43] Stevenson began working on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power at the same time he began dating Ostertag, [44] who was influential on the show "from the very beginning," [45] coming up with a major plot twist in the show's final season. [46]

Ostertag is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and has illustrated a campaign poster for Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman. [47]

Bibliography

Graphic novels

Graphic novel series

  • Witch Boy trilogy
    • The Witch Boy (writer/artist, Graphix, 2017)
    • The Hidden Witch (writer/artist, Graphix, 2018)
    • The Midwinter Witch (writer/artist, Graphix, 2019)
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club [48]

Other graphic novels

  • Tales of the Night Watchman (So What? Press, 2011–Present)
  • Rick and Morty: Lil' Poo-py Superstar #3 (Oni Press, variant cover, 2016)
    • "The Night Collector" (artist, 2013) & "Sanctuary" (characters co-created by, 2018)
    • "It Came from the Gowanus Canal" (artist, 2014) & "It Came from the Gowanus Canal...Again!" (characters co-created by, 2017)
  • Shattered Warrior (artist, written by Sharon Shinn, Macmillan, 2017)
  • The Girl from the Sea (writer/artist, Graphix, 2021)
  • Darkest Night (writer/artist, Substack, 2021)
  • The Deep Dark (writer/artist, Graphix, 2024)

Role-playing games

Webcomics

Filmography

Film

TitleYearRoleNotes
She Makes Comics 2014As herselfOriginal art in this documentary.
Water Dogs2014—Concept art.
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously 2016—Original art in this documentary.

Television

TitleYearCredited asRoleNotes
WriterDirectorAnimation/Art
department
Star vs. the Forces of Evil 2016–2019NoNoYes—Prop design on 30 episodes [lower-alpha 3] and prop designer on 4 episodes [lower-alpha 4]
The Owl House 2020–2023YesNoNo—Staff writer on 36 episodes, [lower-alpha 5] story writer on 15 episodes, [lower-alpha 6] and writer on 5 episodes. [lower-alpha 7]
ThunderCats Roar 2020NoYesNo—Teleplay for 3 episodes. [lower-alpha 8]
Neon GalaxyYesYesYes—Creator [50]

Web shows and series

List of appearances in web shows and series
TitleYearRoleNotes
Critical Role 2017Wendy DarlingDungeons & Dragons web series; Episode: "Once Upon a Fairytale Cruise" [51]
Adventuring Academy2019HerselfPodcast and web series; Episode: "Finishing a Campaign (with Molly Ostertag)" [52]

Notes

  1. ↑ In a tweet on December 10, 2020, Ostertag said that Morgan is Korean Canadian while Keltie is "white with a summer tan."
  2. ↑ "I'm a gay lady! Favorite activities include making comics, running D&D, and dating an amazing girl #queerselflove pic.twitter.com/H2hqItMHC4. — Molly Knox Ostertag (@MollyOstertag) June 15, 2016." [42]
  3. ↑ These 30 episodes were "Princess Quasar Caterpillar and the Magic Bell/Ghost of Butterfly Castle," "Curse of the Blood Moon," "Out of Business/Kelly's World," "The Ponyhead Show!/Surviving the Spiderbites," "Yada Yada Berries/Down by the River," "Ransomgram/Lake House Fever," "Moon Remembers/Swim Suit," "Escape from the Pie Folk," "Butterfly Follies," "Conquer," "Divide," "Bam Ui Pati!/Tough Love," "Skooled!/Booth Buddies," "Is Another Mystery/Marco Jr.," "Butterfly Trap/Ludo, Where Art Thou?," "The Bogbeast of Boggabah/Total Eclipsa the Moon," "Monster Bash," "Night Life/Deep Dive," "Death Peck/Ponymonium," "Sweet Dreams/Lava Lake Beach," "Princess Turdina/Starfari," "Lint Catcher/Trial by Squire," "Demoncism/Sophomore Slump," "Club Snubbed/Stranger Danger," "Scent of a Hoodie/Rest in Pudding," "Battle for Mewni: Toffee," "Battle for Mewni: Puddle Defender/Battle for Mewni: King Ludo," "Battle for Mewni: Book Be Gone/Battle for Mewni: Marco and the King," "Battle for Mewni: Return to Mewni/Battle for Mewni: Moon the Undaunted," and "Hungry Larry/Spider with a Top Hat."
  4. ↑ Specifically "Stump Day/Holiday Spellcial," "Starcrushed," "Face the Music," and "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown."
  5. ↑ These were "Labyrinth Runners," "Hollow Mind," "Them's the Breaks Kid," "Reaching Out," "Any Sport in a Storm," "Elsewhere and Elsewhen," "Follies at the Coven Day Parade," "Yesterday's Lie," "Eclipse Lake," "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door," "Eda's Requiem," "Hunting Palismen," "Through the Looking Glass Ruins," "Keeping Up A-fear-ances," "Echoes of the Past," "Escaping Expulsion," "Separate Tides," "Young Blood, Old Souls," "Agony of a Witch," "Wing It Like Witches," "Enchanting Grom Fright," "Understanding Willow," "Really Small Problems," "The First Day," "Sense and Insensitivity," "Adventures in the Elements," "Escape of the Palisman," "Something Ventured, Someone Framed," "Once Upon a Swap," "Lost in Language," "Hooty's Moving Hassle," "Covention," "The Intruder," "I Was a Teenage Abomination," "Witches Before Wizards," "A Lying Witch and a Warden."
  6. ↑ These were "Yesterday's Lie," "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door," "Eda's Requiem," "Hunting Palismen," "Through the Looking Glass Ruins," "Echoes of the Past," "Escaping Expulsion," "Separate Tides," Young Blood, Old Souls, "Agony of a Witch," "Wing It Like Witches," "Enchanting Grom Fright," "Understanding Willow," "Really Small Problems," and "Once Upon a Swap."
  7. ↑ These five episodes were "Wing It Like Witches", "Enchanting Grom Fright", "Escaping Expulsion", "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", and "Yesterday's Lie".
  8. ↑ Specifically "Prince Starling's Quest," "Berserkers", and "Warrior Maiden Invasion"

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