ND Stevenson is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the animated television series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which ran from 2018 to 2020.
27 Facts About ND Stevenson
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ND Stevenson is known for the science fantasy graphic novel Nimona, as co-writer of the comic series Lumberjanes, and The Fire Never Goes Out, his autobiographical collection.
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ND Stevenson is non-binary and transmasculine, and has written about being transgender in his webcomic I'm Fine I'm Fine Just Understand.
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ND Stevenson attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2013.
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In mid-2012, ND Stevenson began creating a webcomic around the character, called Nimona, and soon signed with a literary agent who found the webcomic online.
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ND Stevenson was named a 2015 National Book Award Finalist for the graphic novel version of Nimona.
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ND Stevenson said that the ability to create comics on his own and create Nimona was what got him a "writing job in animation," bringing him into the animation world.
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ND Stevenson created the cover art for Rainbow Rowell's novel Fangirl, which was published in 2013.
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ND Stevenson worked with Ryan North on his book To Be or Not to Be, a choose-your-own-adventure-book based on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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In 2020, ND Stevenson was described as executive producer and writer of a one-hour animated special introducing the characters of Lumberjanes, an animated series which will stream on HBO Max.
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ND Stevenson was described as working on the series in 2021 and 2022.
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In 2015, ND Stevenson wrote for Marvel Comics on the comics Thor Annual and Runaways.
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ND Stevenson did the cover art for Jennifer Longo's novels Up to This Pointe and Six Feet Over It.
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ND Stevenson was part of the writing team of Disney's animated series Wander Over Yonder, beginning with the second season in 2015.
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In 2017, ND Stevenson appeared in two episodes of Critical Role's first campaign as Tova.
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ND Stevenson has subsequently appeared in three Critical Role one-shot episodes between 2017 and 2022 as himself, Tova, and Peter Pan.
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ND Stevenson was the creator and executive producer of DreamWorks Animation's rebooted She-Ra and the Princesses of Power animated television series on Netflix, which ran for five seasons from 2018 to 2020.
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On February 4,2022, ND Stevenson posted a fan comic of The Book of Boba Fett entitled "This Place Was Home" on Twitter, which received a positive critical reception.
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In June 2023 ND Stevenson noted he was working on a "two book series of novels" based on stories predating Nimona, which were originally written in his teenage years.
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ND Stevenson married fellow cartoonist Molly Knox Ostertag in September 2019.
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ND Stevenson began working on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power at the same time that he began dating Ostertag.
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ND Stevenson described her as influential on the show "from the very beginning"; Ostertag originated a major plot twist in the show's penultimate season.
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In July 2020, ND Stevenson announced that he was "nonbinary, or something like it," and that he used any gender pronouns.
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In November 2020, ND Stevenson published a comic about his top surgery.
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On March 31,2021, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, ND Stevenson stated that he is transmasculine and bigender.
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On October 11,2020, National Coming Out Day, ND Stevenson wrote and illustrated his coming out story for Oprah Magazine.
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ND Stevenson described his journey to self-acceptance, his "battle against the gender essentialism of [his] Evangelical upbringing", and stated that he had become an atheist by age 23.