BirthDecember 311991

ND Stevenson

ND Stevenson, American cartoonist

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Tuesday, December 31 199135 years ago
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20th century · 1990s
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ND Stevenson

At a glance

Born 1991-12-31.

Known as: comics artist, comics writer, screenwriter, television producer, and writer. Citizenship: United States.

Listed as: human.

Who they were

Personal life Stevenson married fellow cartoonist Lee Knox Ostertag in September 2019. [ 1 ] He began working on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power at the same time that he began dating Ostertag. [ 2 ] He described him as influential on the show "from the very beginning"; [ 3 ] Ostertag originated a major plot twist in the show's penultimate season. [ 4 ] In July 2020, Stevenson announced that he was " nonbinary , or something like it", and that he used any gender pronouns . [

Nate Diana "Indy" Stevenson, known professionally as ND Stevenson, is an American cartoonist and animation producer. He is the developer, showrunner, and executive producer of the animated television series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which ran from 2018 to 2020. He is also known for the science fantasy graphic novel Nimona, as co-writer of the comic series Lumberjanes, and The Fire Never Goes Out, his autobiographical collection.

Early life

Educated at: Maryland Institute College of Art and A.C. Flora High School.

Early life Nate Diana Stevenson was born Noelle Diana Stevenson on December 31, 1991, in Columbia, South Carolina , to Diana and Hal Stevenson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the third of five siblings. [ 3 ] Stevenson later described his family as "very religious" and said that he had a "very limited diet" as a result. At age 5 or 6, his first exposure to anime was the series Superbook , which he got from a church library, and said he found it "really scary...and a little bit traumatizing",

Path and career

Awards / honours: Out100, The Cartoonist Studio Prize, Eisner Award, and Harvey Awards.

Career 2012–2013: Nimona and career beginnings See also: Nimona During his junior year, he created his soon-to-be popular character Nimona as part of an assignment in one of his classes. In mid-2012, Stevenson began creating a webcomic around the character, also called Nimona , and soon signed with a literary agent who found the webcomic online. The agent helped him sign with HarperCollins to publish Nimona as a graphic novel. [ 1 ] Nimona would double as Stevenson's senior thesis in 2012. [ 2 ]

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ND Stevenson appears on our December 31 calendar for 1991 as a birth entry.

December 31 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1991ND Stevenson
  2. 2004Taipei 101
  3. 2006War in Somalia (2006–2009)
  4. 2009Blue moon
  5. 20102010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak
  6. 2011NASA
  7. 20142014 Shanghai stampede
  8. 2015Downtown Dubai
  9. 20182018 Magnitogorsk building collapse
  10. 2019World Health Organization
  11. 2020COVID-19 vaccine

Also in 1991

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  • March 14EscondidaEscondida, one of the most productive copper mines in the world, was officially inaugurated.
  • September 12Space Shuttle DiscoveryNASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
  • September 17EstoniaEstonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
  • September 17LinuxThe first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
  • September 5Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
  • October 201991 Uttarkashi earthquakeAn earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.

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December 31 1991 — 35 years ago, on a Tuesday.

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