17 Facts About Nimona

Nimona is a fantasy graphic novel by ND Stevenson, an American cartoonist.

Stevenson began work on Nimona while studying at Maryland Institute College of Art, revisiting a character he had created while at high school.

Nimona is a shapeshifter, usually a human girl but able to grow and shrink and take any human or animal form.

Nimona pushes to make his plans more violent and often kills people.

Nimona is captured by Goldenloin and used as a trap to lure Nimona.

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Nimona's head is sliced off during the fight, but she lives and they escape.

Nimona sneaks into a hospital to treat poison victims, but is captured.

Nimona is imprisoned there; she attempted to rescue Blackheart, but was captured in a self-repairing vessel built to contain jaderoot.

Nimona claimed to be one of their children, but they believed she was impersonating a child that died.

The human form of Nimona learns that Blackheart revealed the device and turns on him.

Nimona's look was based on his own experiences with cosplay; Stevenson preferred cosplaying as male characters rather than female characters, and wanted "to do a costume that people who weren't interested in looking particularly buxom or sensual might want to dress as".

Stevenson says that he "had no idea what Nimona was when I started it" and that it was experimental, but that he knew very early how it would end.

Nimona's form is unsettled and indefinable, though Mihaela Precup said that Nimona's queerness was mostly hinted at through linguistic markers and fashion choices.

Precup noted the "subversive potential of a specific kind of queer cuteness", while James J Donahue said that Nimona showed the fluidity of identity construction to a young-adult audience along with empowering moments.

Nimona has been highlighted as promoting alternate perspectives on gender and allowing readers to come to terms with their own identities.

Nimona won an Eisner Award, a Cybils Award, and a Cartoonist Studio Prize.

Iain A MacInnes, a scholar who focuses on US popular and youth culture, said that Nimona added to the varieties of medieval aesthetics in modern media.