Leigh Dragoon Explained
Leigh Dragoon is a professional American comics writer and illustrator.
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 a non-binary trans woman[7] and a Reform Jew.[8] She has mentioned having autism,[9] obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and anxiety.[10]
Political views
Currently, she is an outspoken supporter of the Israel Defense Forces' actions in Gaza.[11] [12] Dragoon has made a number of Islamophobic statements, such as calling Islam a "colonizer death cult",[13] and referring to student protesters as "antisemitic children"[14] and "Hamasniks".[15] [16] [17]
These Islamophobic statements have included attacks on Canadian author Xiran Jay Zhao, accusing them of antisemitism by linking all Hui people to Hamas via Sunni Islam[18] and accusing them of encouraging antisemitic terrorism.[19]
Bibliography
- My Inner Bimbo (multiple artists, Sam Kieth, Oni Press, 2009,)
- The Faerie Path: Lamia's Revenge #1: The Serpent Awakens (artist Alison Acton, HarperCollins/Tokyopop, 2009,)
- The Faerie Path: Lamia's Revenge #2: The Memory of Wings (artist Alison Acton, HarperCollins/Tokyopop, 2009,)
- Fraggle Rock (multiple contributors, Archaia Studios Press, 2010,)
- Vampire Academy (artist Emma Vieceli, Razorbill, 2011,)
- Frostbite (artist Emma Vieceli, Razorbill, 2012,)
- Shadow Kiss (artist Emma Vieceli, Razorbill, 2013,)
- Legend (artist Caravan Studio, Penguin Group LLC, 2015,)
- Prodigy (artist Caravan Studio, Penguin Group LLC, 2016,)
- Champion (artist Caravan Studio, Penguin Group LLC, 2017,)
- Book: Epic Tales from Adventure Time: Queen of Rogues, 2014 . 26 June 2014 . 978-0698171961. Penguin Random House. [20]
- Book: Epic Tales from Adventure Time: The Lonesome Outlaw, 2015 . 29 September 2015. 978-0399540110. Penguin Random House. [21]
- Book: Epic Tales from Adventure Time: The Virtue of Ardor, 2016 . 28 June 2016. 978-0451532886. Penguin Random House. [22]
- Little Women: Magic in Concord (forthcoming, Oni Press)
Notes and References
- News: 2006 Friends of Lulu Award Winners . The Beat . July 21, 2006 . December 4, 2011 . https://archive.today/20130120011611/http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/07/21/2006-friends-of-lulu-award-winners/ . January 20, 2013 . dead .
- News: Children's Books for Spring: H . . February 16, 2009 .
- News: Steve . Sunu . Dragoon and Myler Head to 'Fraggle Rock' . Comic Book Resources . May 26, 2010.
- News: Brian . Truitt . First look: 'Vampire Academy' bites into graphic-novel market . . April 18, 2011 .
- News: Legend: the Graphic Novel.
- News: Prodigy: the Graphic Novel.
- Dragoon . Leigh . ldragoon . 1813815597337379194 . 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. . 31 July 2024 .
- Dragoon . Leigh . ldragoon . 1818280838842490931 . 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. . 31 July 2024 .
- Dragoon . Leigh . ldragoon . 1725279256908071008 . 16 November 2023 . Autistic author checking in: Seconded. . 31 July 2024 .
- Dragoon . Leigh . ldragoon . 1657090719176355840 . 12 May 2023 . Having OCD and ADHD and anxiety means you’re either chronically early to everything or chronically late. . 31 July 2024 .
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