You've worked on all of these great mainstream comics, but it was Princeless that started it all right? So being able to write and work with an illustrator is a really cool part of the job. That was I think the first time I realized that the person writing doesn't necessarily illustrate things too, because I'm a terrible artist. Vaughn, I realized you can do all sorts of stuff in comics. I had always really just read superhero comics so when I read Y the Last Man by Brian K. At some point I just went back to the local comic shop, Ultimate Comics, in Durham and found. So I had to write really serious stories about sad twentysomethings back then. I feel like that's still fairly recent for me because I went to school for English and creative writing and they were kind of anti-genre fiction at my school. When did you consider writing comics as a career? I grew up watching the X-Men animated series and buying video tapes at Pizza Hut and whatnot. I was into X-Men and Spider-Man and all that fun stuff. So what were the comics that you were reading growing up? We spoke with Whitley about how his daughter was the inspiration for Princeless and why he isn't afraid to write characters of ethnicities and orientations that are not his own.Īrtists: Ted Brandt ad Rosy Higgins Photo: The success of the Princeless universe led to Whitley writing for Marvel, where he penned everything from Avengers and the Thor vs HULK series to a Secret Wars and Unstoppable Wasp. That story also spawned Raven: The Pirate Princess, a YA story featuring the series' first LGBTQ character. On the way, she makes new friends and fights everything from vampires to zombies. Adrienne bucks tradition, and decides to 'save' herself and take to the countryside searching for other princesses to save. But comics were his first love and in 2013 he launched Princeless: Save Yourself, about young Princess Adrienne Ashe, whose parents lock her away in a tower with a dragon to guard her until she is 'saved' by a handsome prince. The Durham, NC native actually started out writing angsty prose in college.

Jeremy Whitley didn't start out writing about comics.

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