Written by Emily Pohl-Weary
Illustrated by Willow Dawson

In response to the male-dominated comics industryâs lack of positive role models for teen girls, Emily Pohl-Weary and Willow Dawson envisioned Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate, a graphic novel told in four-parts.

Violet Miranda draws on the life stories of the most famous women pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read. The girl protagonists, Violet and her best friend Elsa Bonnet, take control of their lives--and pirate ships--through their wiles and natural leadership abilities.

The adventures all start with the first issue. Violet and Elsa are two precocious girls whoâve grown up together on the isolated island of Los Vagos. Theyâre fully aware that their loving fathers were once fearsome pirates who managed to swindle the famed Calico Jack out of a treasure chest just before retiring to live happily ever after... Or so they think.

Preview Issue #1

• Check out a larger version of the cover.
• Download sample inside pages: page 1, page 10, and page 20.

Continue to Issue #2
The second issue of Violet Miranda has now been published. Visit its webpage here.

Press for Violet Miranda #1

• REVIEWED! Exclaim columnist, Sarrah Young, speculates on the fate of our two girls.
• REVIEWED! Sequential Tart's Suzette Chan gave Violet a 9 out of 10!
• BEST BET! Violet Miranda launch party highlighted in eye weekly.
• PROFILED! Space TV is running this brief between regular programming. (Caution: big RealPlayer file.)
• REVIEWED! "The Panelist" Guy Leshinski gave us a glowing review.

Visit Strange Horizons, the speculative literature webmagazine where Violet Miranda is being serialized, one page per week.