However, I feel like there is a distinct shortage of books I would feel comfortable handing my daughter these days (at least before she turned 16 or so). I’ve lost track of them occasionally, but the books and characters have always been a part of my life. I’ve grown up with a lasting love of comics. What did you see that she was missing or lacking in the comic market? Why did you want to change that for her? I understand that you wrote this book, in part, for your daughter. I got the chance to chat with Whitley recently and here’s what he had to say about the book, who inspired Princess Adrienne and why stories about girls who get to have their adventures matter.ġ. Goodwin, was named the Best Limited Series of 2012 by Graphic Policy garnered numerous awards, including the Glyph Award for Story of the Year, Best Writer and Best Female Character and has been nominated for two Eisner Awards for Best Single Issue and Best Publication for Kids. We then get a scene that so simply and concisely explains the double standard of the problem of the sexy female warrior and the strong male warrior that one might wonder how this book didn’t come out before 2012. On her way, she meets the first-ever girl blacksmith, a half-dwarf half-human named Bedalia. But Adrienne finds a sword under her bed and, with the help of her female pet dragon, Sparky, she escapes the tower and sets off to save her seven sisters, all of whom are also locked in separate towers. Her father wants a suitor worthy enough to slay the dragon to marry her. With Princeless‘s main protagonist, Princess Adrienne, we meet a young princess who has been locked away in a tower by her parents and is being guarded by a dragon. That story, published in 1980, was quite a feminist gold standard for the time: the young princess rescues her prince, and then when he tells her that she needs to be more feminine, she tells him he’s not that nice after all and goes off on her own. When I initially describe Jeremy Whitley’s Princeless (Action Lab Comics) to people, I explain it as if we got to continue seeing the adventures of Princess Elizabeth from Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess.

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