Jeremy Whitley Comics

The Official Tumblr home of all Jeremy Whitley's comics including Princeless, The Pirate Princess, The Dog Knight, School for Extraterrestrial Girls, and news of Unstoppable Wasp, Sea of Thieves, My Little Pony, and more.

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School is out, the beach is calling, and the end of the world might be arriving first. School for Extraterrestrial Girls Vol. 3 arrives in May #comics #graphicnovel

School is out, the beach is calling, and the end of the world might be arriving first. School for Extraterrestrial Girls Vol. 3 arrives in May

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Someone needs to culture these women

A Year of Marvels: October Infinite Comic (2016) #1

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Wanda Maximoff

Strange Tales (2025) #3

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33 Books with Lesbian Protagonists for Lesbian Visibility Week!

HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK! We asked our rec list recommenders for books starring lesbian characters, and boy did they deliver! With these books added in, we’ve now recommended over 100 books with lesbian main characters over the past few years (links to those full lists are at the end of the post). The contributors to the list are: Ivy L. James, Tryan A Bex, Shea Sullivan, jumblejen, Evangeline Giaconia, Shannon, Rascal Hartley, Shadaras, Sebastian Marie, Dei Walker, Mikki Madison, Puck, Nina Waters, E. C., and Linnea Peterson.

Breaking Character by Lee Winter

Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang

The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag

But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo

Kase-San and… series by Hiromi Takashima

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Goodbye, My Rose Garden by Dr. Pepperco

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

The Beauty’s Blade by Feng Ren Zuo Shu

Spent by Alison Bechdel

Alter Ego by Ana C. Sánchez

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin

Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley

Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

Yuri Espoir by Mai Naoi

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Proper English by KJ Charles

Skullrunner by Vyvre Argent

Find these and other books on our Goodreads book shelf, grab our Pagebound.co list, or buy them through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate page.

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Celebrate Queer Female Characters this International Women’s Day!

Happy International Women’s Day! There are so many amazing books starring queer women – here’s a selection of our favorites. You can see way more by visiting our lists on Goodreads, Pagebound, or the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate page.

Want even more? Check out the 2026 itch.io bundle featuring stories by women, starring women!

The contributors to the list are: Tryan A Bex, Shadaras, Shannon, JD Rivers, E. C., Shea Sullivan, Dei Walker, jumblejen, Mikki Madison, Linnea Peterson, Nina Waters, polls, Terra P. Waters, S. J. Ralston.

The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag

Goodbye, My Rose Garden by Dr. Pepperco

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Skullrunner by Vyvre Argent

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee

We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin

Coffee Shop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Brooms by Jasmine Walls

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

Landlocked in Foreign Skin by Drew Huff

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

Dreadnought by April Daniels

The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

The Last Girl Scout by Natalie Ironside

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang

All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny

Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

Level Up by Paisley Rose

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond

Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Planeta by Ana Oncina

Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

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Strange Tales (2025) #3

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Awwww I actually love this so much. More than all their banter and everything, this really shows why Amerikate as a ship works, they have so much care for each other, it's so sweet

Civil War II: Choosing Sides (2016) #2

[jeremywhitley]

Hey everybody!

Our Zoop campaign for Slay and The Girlfriend Survives made it to our goal! Huzzah!

We have five days left in our campaign, so we decided to offer something cool as a potential stretch goal if we make it to $6000 (currently $840 away). We're offering a package of digital comics to everybody who has already backed the campaign and it includes 5 comics that are currently completely out of print! IF we hit $6000 all backers get digital copies of:

Princeless Vol 1

Raven Pirate Princess Vol 1

Exes with Axes by Luc Nakashoji

My Mother, the Time Traveler by Luc Nakashoji

Yellow Peril: The Customer is Always by Jamie Noguchi

Yellow Peril: Back on the Grind by Jamie Noguchi

47 Bronin by Jamie Noguchi

These are all digital comics created by members of the The Girlfriend Survives creative team and they are all yours just for contributing to the campaign, as long as we reach our $6000 stretch goal. So, this seems like a good time to tell your friend to back it or maybe up your pledge so you can get comics here that you currently can't buy anywhere else!

SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives - Double First Issue Flip Book

Jeremy Whitley presents a special double first issue 56-page comic! On one side it's the first issue of fantasy-horror-western SLAY! by Wri

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I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

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Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

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Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

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Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going

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@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.

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@sseanettles

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)

Reading your tag made me laugh out loud. It’s like two old friends unexpectedly stopped by your porch for a quick visit. XD

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I’ll always reblog Martin and Bosco when they splash across my dash, because of Reasons.

What’s loved, lives.

[jeremywhitley]

Long live Martin and Bosco, Kings of Tumblr.

[jeremywhitley]

SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives

I am running a

Zoop with two creative teams, making two fun, exciting, and progressive comics for adult audiences. If you love indie comics and/or love anything I've written, I think you should support it. I'm gonna tell you why, but first, the link: zoop.gg/c/slay

If somehow you've gotten here and you don't know me - HI! I'm Jeremy Whitley and I am a comic book writer. I am the creator of Princeless, it's spinoff Raven Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls and the Stonewall honored Navigating with You. I am known for writing diverse YA books

You may also know me from some of my IP work like Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp, Gwenpool's Asexual coming out story, in continuity Sea of Thieves comics, and sixty issues of My Little Pony comics. I've made it my business to find ways to tell diverse original stories in existing worlds. It's what I do.

Working in IP stuff can be fun. Working on my own YA and kids aimed books is often a great time, but friends I love horror, I love dark fantasy, I love stories about heroines who screw up, take punches, keep going and survive against all odds. That's what these books are about zoop.gg/c/slay

And that was the dawn of the blood drenched, monster hunting, post-apocalyptic western story about coming-of-age and female mentorship that is SLAY! Aesthetically, I've always loved westerns, but with few exceptions, they are stories about western American expansion and indigenous genocide. There are a lot of movies that attempt to reframe that and tell more complex stories, but when you center the white cowboy or settler, there's only so much reframing you can do. There are types of people that, if you're staying within the bounds of history, are rarely or never part of that story.

But what I love about westerns is the feeling of isolation - of people being on the edge of the world that your people know and never knowing what sort of monster could be just around the corner. That's the root of horror. The unknown. And add fantasy monsters, anything's possible

A few years back my friend and artist Alex Smith and I started working on SLAY! The idea was a post-apocalyptic western with heroes with looks and backgrounds that played off ideas westerns love, but that don't look or feel quite like characters we've ever seen in these roles. Like The Scarred Rider

You've seen some of these ideas before. A lone badass with no name, known only by a title. They work alone. They have a mysterious past but a legendary reputation. They've been through it all and have the scars to prove it. But I had never seen this character in a western as a black woman and well...

If I am being absolutely real, all of the people I know in my life that have that kind of resolve, self-reliance, and absolute refusal to die even when the world is against them are black women. Rider has a quest she keeps to herself, a shame she's itching to avenge, and a history that haunts her.

Now, as with many of you, my favorite dynamic between two leads is gloomy and stoic teamed with enthusiastic and overconfident. That's where Leilah Jilani comes in. Leila lost her mother when she was young and has grown up being cared for by the old woman that maintained their local mosque.

The only thing Leilah still has of her mother's is a necklace. Leilah never knew what this necklace meant until she saw this symbol again recently and discovered that it used to be the symbol of a group of legendary monster slayers that rode with a great queen, protecting their valley from monsters.

Leilah, of course, wants to be like her mother so rushes out of her otherwise sheltered life to find someone who can teach her to become a hero like her mother. All the others are rumored to be dead and gone, except for one woman who is like a ghost, still out there questing, The Scarred Rider. As it happens, there are other people out there looking for Rider, people who need a monster slain. Well, that seems to Leilah like an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Go where Rider may be headed AND claim a bounty so she can keep looking. Easy peasy.

The only problem, as you may have guessed, is that she's not actually a trained monster hunter yet and so now has put herself in the crosshairs of both this monster and The Scarred Rider herself. Even surviving is going to be a challenge, forget convincing Rider to mentor her. zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

Which is a lovely transition to talk about the other comic we're making, because it's all about survival. First, our reasoning for this combo. When we talked to Zoop about making SLAY! they suggested the best length to print through their printer is 56 pages. Slay #1 i half that, but I had an idea! When I was a kid, I got this Spider-Man comic I was infinitely fascinated with. It was two annuals, flipped and bound back to back. On one side was a full Scarlet Spider story and one the other side, Spider-Man. You got two covers and two stories in one. I loved that.

I had this other book I'd been working on with the amazing

Luc Nakashoji that was a spin on a super hero story with a decidedly adult series of twists, dilemmas, and blood. It would be a great pairing for SLAY! while still being very different. It was also short enough we could fit both.

We accelerated the production a bit to finish this first book, which we called "The Girlfriends Survives". It's about the most endangered character in a modern superhero comic: the hero's civilian girlfriend. Writer's at some point agreed that if you can't kill a superhero, you create people to kill.

So writers started killing off old aunts, dads, grandmas, sisters. But the real ready made victims were girlfriends. You have the bad guy murder them, chop em up, stick em in a fridge, now your hero can have BIG SAD/MAD FEELINGS. Gail Simone even coined a term for it.

Fridging.

Now, largely thanks to Gail, people are very aware of the trope and the smart ones have started steering away from it. The biggest problem with fridging is it's not about the girlfriend, it's about the hero and the girlfriend as a non-autonomous extension of the hero. So just stopping isn't enough.

What I wanted to do with The Girlfriend Survives was to reframe the whole thing. I wanted to make this a story about the girlfriend, who the hero of course deceives, puts in danger, and only really thinks of in terms of being his girlfriend and not as a real rounded person. Meet Delilah Dillon.

In a sense, the twist of The Girlfriend Survives is that women are real people. Shocker, I know. But Delilah doesn't cease to exist just because her boyfriend Billy Bright/Brightstar has flown off-panel. She has a real life, her own secret origin, and some surprises of her own.

It would be hard to say much more without getting into spoilers and nobody wants that, so lets say that it isn't easy to survive in a world of superheroes when you're a normal girl. Thankfully, Delilah is not as normal as she seems. If this sounds like your jam, help us make it zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives

I am running a

Zoop with two creative teams, making two fun, exciting, and progressive comics for adult audiences. If you love indie comics and/or love anything I've written, I think you should support it. I'm gonna tell you why, but first, the link: zoop.gg/c/slay

If somehow you've gotten here and you don't know me - HI! I'm Jeremy Whitley and I am a comic book writer. I am the creator of Princeless, it's spinoff Raven Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls and the Stonewall honored Navigating with You. I am known for writing diverse YA books

You may also know me from some of my IP work like Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp, Gwenpool's Asexual coming out story, in continuity Sea of Thieves comics, and sixty issues of My Little Pony comics. I've made it my business to find ways to tell diverse original stories in existing worlds. It's what I do.

Working in IP stuff can be fun. Working on my own YA and kids aimed books is often a great time, but friends I love horror, I love dark fantasy, I love stories about heroines who screw up, take punches, keep going and survive against all odds. That's what these books are about zoop.gg/c/slay

And that was the dawn of the blood drenched, monster hunting, post-apocalyptic western story about coming-of-age and female mentorship that is SLAY! Aesthetically, I've always loved westerns, but with few exceptions, they are stories about western American expansion and indigenous genocide. There are a lot of movies that attempt to reframe that and tell more complex stories, but when you center the white cowboy or settler, there's only so much reframing you can do. There are types of people that, if you're staying within the bounds of history, are rarely or never part of that story.

But what I love about westerns is the feeling of isolation - of people being on the edge of the world that your people know and never knowing what sort of monster could be just around the corner. That's the root of horror. The unknown. And add fantasy monsters, anything's possible

A few years back my friend and artist Alex Smith and I started working on SLAY! The idea was a post-apocalyptic western with heroes with looks and backgrounds that played off ideas westerns love, but that don't look or feel quite like characters we've ever seen in these roles. Like The Scarred Rider

You've seen some of these ideas before. A lone badass with no name, known only by a title. They work alone. They have a mysterious past but a legendary reputation. They've been through it all and have the scars to prove it. But I had never seen this character in a western as a black woman and well...

If I am being absolutely real, all of the people I know in my life that have that kind of resolve, self-reliance, and absolute refusal to die even when the world is against them are black women. Rider has a quest she keeps to herself, a shame she's itching to avenge, and a history that haunts her.

Now, as with many of you, my favorite dynamic between two leads is gloomy and stoic teamed with enthusiastic and overconfident. That's where Leilah Jilani comes in. Leila lost her mother when she was young and has grown up being cared for by the old woman that maintained their local mosque.

The only thing Leilah still has of her mother's is a necklace. Leilah never knew what this necklace meant until she saw this symbol again recently and discovered that it used to be the symbol of a group of legendary monster slayers that rode with a great queen, protecting their valley from monsters.

Leilah, of course, wants to be like her mother so rushes out of her otherwise sheltered life to find someone who can teach her to become a hero like her mother. All the others are rumored to be dead and gone, except for one woman who is like a ghost, still out there questing, The Scarred Rider. As it happens, there are other people out there looking for Rider, people who need a monster slain. Well, that seems to Leilah like an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Go where Rider may be headed AND claim a bounty so she can keep looking. Easy peasy.

The only problem, as you may have guessed, is that she's not actually a trained monster hunter yet and so now has put herself in the crosshairs of both this monster and The Scarred Rider herself. Even surviving is going to be a challenge, forget convincing Rider to mentor her. zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

Which is a lovely transition to talk about the other comic we're making, because it's all about survival. First, our reasoning for this combo. When we talked to Zoop about making SLAY! they suggested the best length to print through their printer is 56 pages. Slay #1 i half that, but I had an idea! When I was a kid, I got this Spider-Man comic I was infinitely fascinated with. It was two annuals, flipped and bound back to back. On one side was a full Scarlet Spider story and one the other side, Spider-Man. You got two covers and two stories in one. I loved that.

I had this other book I'd been working on with the amazing

Luc Nakashoji that was a spin on a super hero story with a decidedly adult series of twists, dilemmas, and blood. It would be a great pairing for SLAY! while still being very different. It was also short enough we could fit both.

We accelerated the production a bit to finish this first book, which we called "The Girlfriends Survives". It's about the most endangered character in a modern superhero comic: the hero's civilian girlfriend. Writer's at some point agreed that if you can't kill a superhero, you create people to kill.

So writers started killing off old aunts, dads, grandmas, sisters. But the real ready made victims were girlfriends. You have the bad guy murder them, chop em up, stick em in a fridge, now your hero can have BIG SAD/MAD FEELINGS. Gail Simone even coined a term for it.

Fridging.

Now, largely thanks to Gail, people are very aware of the trope and the smart ones have started steering away from it. The biggest problem with fridging is it's not about the girlfriend, it's about the hero and the girlfriend as a non-autonomous extension of the hero. So just stopping isn't enough.

What I wanted to do with The Girlfriend Survives was to reframe the whole thing. I wanted to make this a story about the girlfriend, who the hero of course deceives, puts in danger, and only really thinks of in terms of being his girlfriend and not as a real rounded person. Meet Delilah Dillon.

In a sense, the twist of The Girlfriend Survives is that women are real people. Shocker, I know. But Delilah doesn't cease to exist just because her boyfriend Billy Bright/Brightstar has flown off-panel. She has a real life, her own secret origin, and some surprises of her own.

It would be hard to say much more without getting into spoilers and nobody wants that, so lets say that it isn't easy to survive in a world of superheroes when you're a normal girl. Thankfully, Delilah is not as normal as she seems. If this sounds like your jam, help us make it zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives

I am running a

Zoop with two creative teams, making two fun, exciting, and progressive comics for adult audiences. If you love indie comics and/or love anything I've written, I think you should support it. I'm gonna tell you why, but first, the link: zoop.gg/c/slay

If somehow you've gotten here and you don't know me - HI! I'm Jeremy Whitley and I am a comic book writer. I am the creator of Princeless, it's spinoff Raven Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls and the Stonewall honored Navigating with You. I am known for writing diverse YA books

You may also know me from some of my IP work like Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp, Gwenpool's Asexual coming out story, in continuity Sea of Thieves comics, and sixty issues of My Little Pony comics. I've made it my business to find ways to tell diverse original stories in existing worlds. It's what I do.

Working in IP stuff can be fun. Working on my own YA and kids aimed books is often a great time, but friends I love horror, I love dark fantasy, I love stories about heroines who screw up, take punches, keep going and survive against all odds. That's what these books are about zoop.gg/c/slay

And that was the dawn of the blood drenched, monster hunting, post-apocalyptic western story about coming-of-age and female mentorship that is SLAY! Aesthetically, I've always loved westerns, but with few exceptions, they are stories about western American expansion and indigenous genocide. There are a lot of movies that attempt to reframe that and tell more complex stories, but when you center the white cowboy or settler, there's only so much reframing you can do. There are types of people that, if you're staying within the bounds of history, are rarely or never part of that story.

But what I love about westerns is the feeling of isolation - of people being on the edge of the world that your people know and never knowing what sort of monster could be just around the corner. That's the root of horror. The unknown. And add fantasy monsters, anything's possible

A few years back my friend and artist Alex Smith and I started working on SLAY! The idea was a post-apocalyptic western with heroes with looks and backgrounds that played off ideas westerns love, but that don't look or feel quite like characters we've ever seen in these roles. Like The Scarred Rider

You've seen some of these ideas before. A lone badass with no name, known only by a title. They work alone. They have a mysterious past but a legendary reputation. They've been through it all and have the scars to prove it. But I had never seen this character in a western as a black woman and well...

If I am being absolutely real, all of the people I know in my life that have that kind of resolve, self-reliance, and absolute refusal to die even when the world is against them are black women. Rider has a quest she keeps to herself, a shame she's itching to avenge, and a history that haunts her.

Now, as with many of you, my favorite dynamic between two leads is gloomy and stoic teamed with enthusiastic and overconfident. That's where Leilah Jilani comes in. Leila lost her mother when she was young and has grown up being cared for by the old woman that maintained their local mosque.

The only thing Leilah still has of her mother's is a necklace. Leilah never knew what this necklace meant until she saw this symbol again recently and discovered that it used to be the symbol of a group of legendary monster slayers that rode with a great queen, protecting their valley from monsters.

Leilah, of course, wants to be like her mother so rushes out of her otherwise sheltered life to find someone who can teach her to become a hero like her mother. All the others are rumored to be dead and gone, except for one woman who is like a ghost, still out there questing, The Scarred Rider. As it happens, there are other people out there looking for Rider, people who need a monster slain. Well, that seems to Leilah like an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Go where Rider may be headed AND claim a bounty so she can keep looking. Easy peasy.

The only problem, as you may have guessed, is that she's not actually a trained monster hunter yet and so now has put herself in the crosshairs of both this monster and The Scarred Rider herself. Even surviving is going to be a challenge, forget convincing Rider to mentor her. zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

Which is a lovely transition to talk about the other comic we're making, because it's all about survival. First, our reasoning for this combo. When we talked to Zoop about making SLAY! they suggested the best length to print through their printer is 56 pages. Slay #1 i half that, but I had an idea! When I was a kid, I got this Spider-Man comic I was infinitely fascinated with. It was two annuals, flipped and bound back to back. On one side was a full Scarlet Spider story and one the other side, Spider-Man. You got two covers and two stories in one. I loved that.

I had this other book I'd been working on with the amazing

Luc Nakashoji that was a spin on a super hero story with a decidedly adult series of twists, dilemmas, and blood. It would be a great pairing for SLAY! while still being very different. It was also short enough we could fit both.

We accelerated the production a bit to finish this first book, which we called "The Girlfriends Survives". It's about the most endangered character in a modern superhero comic: the hero's civilian girlfriend. Writer's at some point agreed that if you can't kill a superhero, you create people to kill.

So writers started killing off old aunts, dads, grandmas, sisters. But the real ready made victims were girlfriends. You have the bad guy murder them, chop em up, stick em in a fridge, now your hero can have BIG SAD/MAD FEELINGS. Gail Simone even coined a term for it.

Fridging.

Now, largely thanks to Gail, people are very aware of the trope and the smart ones have started steering away from it. The biggest problem with fridging is it's not about the girlfriend, it's about the hero and the girlfriend as a non-autonomous extension of the hero. So just stopping isn't enough.

What I wanted to do with The Girlfriend Survives was to reframe the whole thing. I wanted to make this a story about the girlfriend, who the hero of course deceives, puts in danger, and only really thinks of in terms of being his girlfriend and not as a real rounded person. Meet Delilah Dillon.

In a sense, the twist of The Girlfriend Survives is that women are real people. Shocker, I know. But Delilah doesn't cease to exist just because her boyfriend Billy Bright/Brightstar has flown off-panel. She has a real life, her own secret origin, and some surprises of her own.

It would be hard to say much more without getting into spoilers and nobody wants that, so lets say that it isn't easy to survive in a world of superheroes when you're a normal girl. Thankfully, Delilah is not as normal as she seems. If this sounds like your jam, help us make it zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives

I am running a

Zoop with two creative teams, making two fun, exciting, and progressive comics for adult audiences. If you love indie comics and/or love anything I've written, I think you should support it. I'm gonna tell you why, but first, the link: zoop.gg/c/slay

If somehow you've gotten here and you don't know me - HI! I'm Jeremy Whitley and I am a comic book writer. I am the creator of Princeless, it's spinoff Raven Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls and the Stonewall honored Navigating with You. I am known for writing diverse YA books

You may also know me from some of my IP work like Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp, Gwenpool's Asexual coming out story, in continuity Sea of Thieves comics, and sixty issues of My Little Pony comics. I've made it my business to find ways to tell diverse original stories in existing worlds. It's what I do.

Working in IP stuff can be fun. Working on my own YA and kids aimed books is often a great time, but friends I love horror, I love dark fantasy, I love stories about heroines who screw up, take punches, keep going and survive against all odds. That's what these books are about zoop.gg/c/slay

And that was the dawn of the blood drenched, monster hunting, post-apocalyptic western story about coming-of-age and female mentorship that is SLAY! Aesthetically, I've always loved westerns, but with few exceptions, they are stories about western American expansion and indigenous genocide. There are a lot of movies that attempt to reframe that and tell more complex stories, but when you center the white cowboy or settler, there's only so much reframing you can do. There are types of people that, if you're staying within the bounds of history, are rarely or never part of that story.

But what I love about westerns is the feeling of isolation - of people being on the edge of the world that your people know and never knowing what sort of monster could be just around the corner. That's the root of horror. The unknown. And add fantasy monsters, anything's possible

A few years back my friend and artist Alex Smith and I started working on SLAY! The idea was a post-apocalyptic western with heroes with looks and backgrounds that played off ideas westerns love, but that don't look or feel quite like characters we've ever seen in these roles. Like The Scarred Rider

You've seen some of these ideas before. A lone badass with no name, known only by a title. They work alone. They have a mysterious past but a legendary reputation. They've been through it all and have the scars to prove it. But I had never seen this character in a western as a black woman and well...

If I am being absolutely real, all of the people I know in my life that have that kind of resolve, self-reliance, and absolute refusal to die even when the world is against them are black women. Rider has a quest she keeps to herself, a shame she's itching to avenge, and a history that haunts her.

Now, as with many of you, my favorite dynamic between two leads is gloomy and stoic teamed with enthusiastic and overconfident. That's where Leilah Jilani comes in. Leila lost her mother when she was young and has grown up being cared for by the old woman that maintained their local mosque.

The only thing Leilah still has of her mother's is a necklace. Leilah never knew what this necklace meant until she saw this symbol again recently and discovered that it used to be the symbol of a group of legendary monster slayers that rode with a great queen, protecting their valley from monsters.

Leilah, of course, wants to be like her mother so rushes out of her otherwise sheltered life to find someone who can teach her to become a hero like her mother. All the others are rumored to be dead and gone, except for one woman who is like a ghost, still out there questing, The Scarred Rider. As it happens, there are other people out there looking for Rider, people who need a monster slain. Well, that seems to Leilah like an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Go where Rider may be headed AND claim a bounty so she can keep looking. Easy peasy.

The only problem, as you may have guessed, is that she's not actually a trained monster hunter yet and so now has put herself in the crosshairs of both this monster and The Scarred Rider herself. Even surviving is going to be a challenge, forget convincing Rider to mentor her. zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

Which is a lovely transition to talk about the other comic we're making, because it's all about survival. First, our reasoning for this combo. When we talked to Zoop about making SLAY! they suggested the best length to print through their printer is 56 pages. Slay #1 i half that, but I had an idea! When I was a kid, I got this Spider-Man comic I was infinitely fascinated with. It was two annuals, flipped and bound back to back. On one side was a full Scarlet Spider story and one the other side, Spider-Man. You got two covers and two stories in one. I loved that.

I had this other book I'd been working on with the amazing

Luc Nakashoji that was a spin on a super hero story with a decidedly adult series of twists, dilemmas, and blood. It would be a great pairing for SLAY! while still being very different. It was also short enough we could fit both.

We accelerated the production a bit to finish this first book, which we called "The Girlfriends Survives". It's about the most endangered character in a modern superhero comic: the hero's civilian girlfriend. Writer's at some point agreed that if you can't kill a superhero, you create people to kill.

So writers started killing off old aunts, dads, grandmas, sisters. But the real ready made victims were girlfriends. You have the bad guy murder them, chop em up, stick em in a fridge, now your hero can have BIG SAD/MAD FEELINGS. Gail Simone even coined a term for it.

Fridging.

Now, largely thanks to Gail, people are very aware of the trope and the smart ones have started steering away from it. The biggest problem with fridging is it's not about the girlfriend, it's about the hero and the girlfriend as a non-autonomous extension of the hero. So just stopping isn't enough.

What I wanted to do with The Girlfriend Survives was to reframe the whole thing. I wanted to make this a story about the girlfriend, who the hero of course deceives, puts in danger, and only really thinks of in terms of being his girlfriend and not as a real rounded person. Meet Delilah Dillon.

In a sense, the twist of The Girlfriend Survives is that women are real people. Shocker, I know. But Delilah doesn't cease to exist just because her boyfriend Billy Bright/Brightstar has flown off-panel. She has a real life, her own secret origin, and some surprises of her own.

It would be hard to say much more without getting into spoilers and nobody wants that, so lets say that it isn't easy to survive in a world of superheroes when you're a normal girl. Thankfully, Delilah is not as normal as she seems. If this sounds like your jam, help us make it zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives

I am running a

Zoop with two creative teams, making two fun, exciting, and progressive comics for adult audiences. If you love indie comics and/or love anything I've written, I think you should support it. I'm gonna tell you why, but first, the link: zoop.gg/c/slay

If somehow you've gotten here and you don't know me - HI! I'm Jeremy Whitley and I am a comic book writer. I am the creator of Princeless, it's spinoff Raven Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls and the Stonewall honored Navigating with You. I am known for writing diverse YA books

You may also know me from some of my IP work like Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp, Gwenpool's Asexual coming out story, in continuity Sea of Thieves comics, and sixty issues of My Little Pony comics. I've made it my business to find ways to tell diverse original stories in existing worlds. It's what I do.

Working in IP stuff can be fun. Working on my own YA and kids aimed books is often a great time, but friends I love horror, I love dark fantasy, I love stories about heroines who screw up, take punches, keep going and survive against all odds. That's what these books are about zoop.gg/c/slay

And that was the dawn of the blood drenched, monster hunting, post-apocalyptic western story about coming-of-age and female mentorship that is SLAY! Aesthetically, I've always loved westerns, but with few exceptions, they are stories about western American expansion and indigenous genocide. There are a lot of movies that attempt to reframe that and tell more complex stories, but when you center the white cowboy or settler, there's only so much reframing you can do. There are types of people that, if you're staying within the bounds of history, are rarely or never part of that story.

But what I love about westerns is the feeling of isolation - of people being on the edge of the world that your people know and never knowing what sort of monster could be just around the corner. That's the root of horror. The unknown. And add fantasy monsters, anything's possible

A few years back my friend and artist Alex Smith and I started working on SLAY! The idea was a post-apocalyptic western with heroes with looks and backgrounds that played off ideas westerns love, but that don't look or feel quite like characters we've ever seen in these roles. Like The Scarred Rider

You've seen some of these ideas before. A lone badass with no name, known only by a title. They work alone. They have a mysterious past but a legendary reputation. They've been through it all and have the scars to prove it. But I had never seen this character in a western as a black woman and well...

If I am being absolutely real, all of the people I know in my life that have that kind of resolve, self-reliance, and absolute refusal to die even when the world is against them are black women. Rider has a quest she keeps to herself, a shame she's itching to avenge, and a history that haunts her.

Now, as with many of you, my favorite dynamic between two leads is gloomy and stoic teamed with enthusiastic and overconfident. That's where Leilah Jilani comes in. Leila lost her mother when she was young and has grown up being cared for by the old woman that maintained their local mosque.

The only thing Leilah still has of her mother's is a necklace. Leilah never knew what this necklace meant until she saw this symbol again recently and discovered that it used to be the symbol of a group of legendary monster slayers that rode with a great queen, protecting their valley from monsters.

Leilah, of course, wants to be like her mother so rushes out of her otherwise sheltered life to find someone who can teach her to become a hero like her mother. All the others are rumored to be dead and gone, except for one woman who is like a ghost, still out there questing, The Scarred Rider. As it happens, there are other people out there looking for Rider, people who need a monster slain. Well, that seems to Leilah like an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Go where Rider may be headed AND claim a bounty so she can keep looking. Easy peasy.

The only problem, as you may have guessed, is that she's not actually a trained monster hunter yet and so now has put herself in the crosshairs of both this monster and The Scarred Rider herself. Even surviving is going to be a challenge, forget convincing Rider to mentor her. zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

Which is a lovely transition to talk about the other comic we're making, because it's all about survival. First, our reasoning for this combo. When we talked to Zoop about making SLAY! they suggested the best length to print through their printer is 56 pages. Slay #1 i half that, but I had an idea! When I was a kid, I got this Spider-Man comic I was infinitely fascinated with. It was two annuals, flipped and bound back to back. On one side was a full Scarlet Spider story and one the other side, Spider-Man. You got two covers and two stories in one. I loved that.

I had this other book I'd been working on with the amazing

Luc Nakashoji that was a spin on a super hero story with a decidedly adult series of twists, dilemmas, and blood. It would be a great pairing for SLAY! while still being very different. It was also short enough we could fit both.

We accelerated the production a bit to finish this first book, which we called "The Girlfriends Survives". It's about the most endangered character in a modern superhero comic: the hero's civilian girlfriend. Writer's at some point agreed that if you can't kill a superhero, you create people to kill.

So writers started killing off old aunts, dads, grandmas, sisters. But the real ready made victims were girlfriends. You have the bad guy murder them, chop em up, stick em in a fridge, now your hero can have BIG SAD/MAD FEELINGS. Gail Simone even coined a term for it.

Fridging.

Now, largely thanks to Gail, people are very aware of the trope and the smart ones have started steering away from it. The biggest problem with fridging is it's not about the girlfriend, it's about the hero and the girlfriend as a non-autonomous extension of the hero. So just stopping isn't enough.

What I wanted to do with The Girlfriend Survives was to reframe the whole thing. I wanted to make this a story about the girlfriend, who the hero of course deceives, puts in danger, and only really thinks of in terms of being his girlfriend and not as a real rounded person. Meet Delilah Dillon.

In a sense, the twist of The Girlfriend Survives is that women are real people. Shocker, I know. But Delilah doesn't cease to exist just because her boyfriend Billy Bright/Brightstar has flown off-panel. She has a real life, her own secret origin, and some surprises of her own.

It would be hard to say much more without getting into spoilers and nobody wants that, so lets say that it isn't easy to survive in a world of superheroes when you're a normal girl. Thankfully, Delilah is not as normal as she seems. If this sounds like your jam, help us make it zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives

I am running a

Zoop with two creative teams, making two fun, exciting, and progressive comics for adult audiences. If you love indie comics and/or love anything I've written, I think you should support it. I'm gonna tell you why, but first, the link: zoop.gg/c/slay

If somehow you've gotten here and you don't know me - HI! I'm Jeremy Whitley and I am a comic book writer. I am the creator of Princeless, it's spinoff Raven Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls and the Stonewall honored Navigating with You. I am known for writing diverse YA books

You may also know me from some of my IP work like Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp, Gwenpool's Asexual coming out story, in continuity Sea of Thieves comics, and sixty issues of My Little Pony comics. I've made it my business to find ways to tell diverse original stories in existing worlds. It's what I do.

Working in IP stuff can be fun. Working on my own YA and kids aimed books is often a great time, but friends I love horror, I love dark fantasy, I love stories about heroines who screw up, take punches, keep going and survive against all odds. That's what these books are about zoop.gg/c/slay

And that was the dawn of the blood drenched, monster hunting, post-apocalyptic western story about coming-of-age and female mentorship that is SLAY! Aesthetically, I've always loved westerns, but with few exceptions, they are stories about western American expansion and indigenous genocide. There are a lot of movies that attempt to reframe that and tell more complex stories, but when you center the white cowboy or settler, there's only so much reframing you can do. There are types of people that, if you're staying within the bounds of history, are rarely or never part of that story.

But what I love about westerns is the feeling of isolation - of people being on the edge of the world that your people know and never knowing what sort of monster could be just around the corner. That's the root of horror. The unknown. And add fantasy monsters, anything's possible

A few years back my friend and artist Alex Smith and I started working on SLAY! The idea was a post-apocalyptic western with heroes with looks and backgrounds that played off ideas westerns love, but that don't look or feel quite like characters we've ever seen in these roles. Like The Scarred Rider

You've seen some of these ideas before. A lone badass with no name, known only by a title. They work alone. They have a mysterious past but a legendary reputation. They've been through it all and have the scars to prove it. But I had never seen this character in a western as a black woman and well...

If I am being absolutely real, all of the people I know in my life that have that kind of resolve, self-reliance, and absolute refusal to die even when the world is against them are black women. Rider has a quest she keeps to herself, a shame she's itching to avenge, and a history that haunts her.

Now, as with many of you, my favorite dynamic between two leads is gloomy and stoic teamed with enthusiastic and overconfident. That's where Leilah Jilani comes in. Leila lost her mother when she was young and has grown up being cared for by the old woman that maintained their local mosque.

The only thing Leilah still has of her mother's is a necklace. Leilah never knew what this necklace meant until she saw this symbol again recently and discovered that it used to be the symbol of a group of legendary monster slayers that rode with a great queen, protecting their valley from monsters.

Leilah, of course, wants to be like her mother so rushes out of her otherwise sheltered life to find someone who can teach her to become a hero like her mother. All the others are rumored to be dead and gone, except for one woman who is like a ghost, still out there questing, The Scarred Rider. As it happens, there are other people out there looking for Rider, people who need a monster slain. Well, that seems to Leilah like an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Go where Rider may be headed AND claim a bounty so she can keep looking. Easy peasy.

The only problem, as you may have guessed, is that she's not actually a trained monster hunter yet and so now has put herself in the crosshairs of both this monster and The Scarred Rider herself. Even surviving is going to be a challenge, forget convincing Rider to mentor her. zoop.gg/c/slay

[jeremywhitley]

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SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives - Double First Issue Flip Book

Jeremy Whitley presents a special double first issue 56-page comic! On one side it's the first issue of fantasy-horror-western SLAY! by Wri

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SLAY! / The Girlfriend Survives - Double First Issue Flip Book

Jeremy Whitley presents a special double first issue 56-page comic! On one side it's the first issue of fantasy-horror-western SLAY! by Wri

Today is the day! Our new project is live and you can help us bring two brand new stories from my brain (Jeremy Whitley) to life with the art of the amazing @sketchymcdrawpants, Luc Nakashoji, @jamienoguchi, @wastedwings, and Taylor Esposito!

For $16 you get two first issues in a cool flipbook format unique to this crowdfund! You can also get variants, art prints, commissions, and all sorts of other things! We're so psyched to share our female monster hunters and survivor girlfriends with you!