M.F.K. by Nilah Magruder5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Magruder took a break from writing the upcoming Marvel Rising (Marvel) and drawing Creaky Acres for writer Calista Brill (Kokila/Penguin) to tell SYFY WIRE how she manages so much multitasking. Since then, she's not only become the first Black woman to write for Marvel (in 2016), but she's planted her feet firmly in the YA and children's genres with illustrations for Cash & Carrie (Action Lab), Princeless (Action Lab), Superb ( Lion Forge), Dactyl Hill Squad, written by superstar kids author Daniel José Older, and her own book How to Find a Fox (Feiwel & Friends). Seeing the obvious similarity between storyboarding and sequential art, Magruder gave webcomics a try and in 2016 won the first-ever Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics for her YA webcomic M.F.K. By the time she got her hands on anime, her mind was made up: She was going to become an animator when she grew up.īut a funny thing happened on the way to that dream, and she ended up working as a storyboard artist. She even worked on the comics in the school newspaper in high school. ![]() She'd watch every cartoon on TV and read the Sunday comic strips beginning to end religiously. Growing up in the Maryland countryside, Nilah Magruder was fascinated with comics and animation at an early age. For March, in honor of Women's HIstory Month, Indie Comics Spotlight is dedicated to women creators in indie comics. ![]()
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