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

Mitch Goodrum

doi:10.1386/stic.7.1.161_7

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

Mitch Goodrum

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Abstract

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).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161-168
Journal	Studies in Comics
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/stic.7.1.161_7
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2016

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