It’s a memoir of sorts, with slices of life from the end of Stevenson’s teens to near the present day. “ The Fire Never Goes Out,” Stevenson’s new book, reflects that sensibility, but it’s an altogether different sort of work: the volume gathers short autobiographical comics that Stevenson drew (and often posted on the Web) between 20. “Nimona,” “Lumberjanes,” and “She-Ra” share a sensibility: all-ages, girl-powered, whimsical but with a streak of angst, grounded in fantasy and in campfire tales, with multiple characters designed to help troubled young readers through their personal darkness. By that point, she was drawing cover art for big-name novelists and comics writers, such as Ryan North and Rainbow Rowell, and writing for Marvel and DC Comics, and also for the lighthearted feminist summer-camp comic “ Lumberjanes.” That success led to an animation writing job and, despite her youth, to her position as the showrunner for “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power,” a delightful, action-packed, queer-friendly, candy-colored Netflix reboot of the nineteen-eighties cartoon. First noticed for online fan art about the Avengers, she turned her scrappy dragons-and-castles story “Nimona” into a successful Web comic in 2012, then (with help from a trade press) into one of the bookstore hits of 2015.
If you follow-or, really, go anywhere near-comics or animation for young people now, you’ve almost surely encountered Noelle Stevenson.
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