If you love Nimona ("I'm a shark!") or Lumberjanes, this is a must-read, but it's also for people who love graphic memoir (graphic as in visual, not... graphic... you know what I mean.) It's about Noelle's creative and personal journey. (Apparently she's now the showrunner for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a show I did not know existed.)This is from HarperTeen but I feel the audience is broader.

2.5 starsi always feel terrible giving memoirs less than stellar reviews, because it’s the person’s life, and putting a rating on what they decide to be vulnerable about and put forward seems really weird and bad.but … this book really fell flat for me, and i honestly think it was all in the presentation. i was expecting a much more in-depth story here on what stevenson has struggled with and her experiences over the years, and almost all of it felt kind of surface-level. there were a lot of pie...

It's no fun giving memoirs low ratings, and I want to stress that my rating isn't at all concerned with Stevenson's actual life and what was presented in The Fire Never Goes Out. I think this memoir —compilation, really— would be very valuable to Stevenson herself. It compiles doodles and year-end reflections from 2009 through 2019. I'd hazard that it's interesting and emotional for Stevenson to look back on.For me, as the reader, it was fine. It was a quick read, maybe a little boring. The Fire...

This book was exactly what I needed.

Heartwarming beautiful memoir by a star illustrated"Take a breath as well as you can and prepare for the careful climb down. You have a long life still to live and many more mountains to climb."A collection of Tumblr doodles and personal reflections in chronological order over the span of more than 5 years. It's a personal and powerful book with main focus on internal struggles, love and acceptance. Some parts are relatable and both emotional . It's like "I felt seen". It is such a raw and since...

"To everyone harboring their own fire and to everyone lost in the dark. May you see the sun again." -- the author's opening dedicationA graphic novel-memoir that is both overly detailed (if you count all of the career achievements the author lists within - kudos to her, but it got a little tedious) and yet still seems superficial at times, The Fire Never Goes Out details the college and early employment years of 2011 through 2019 for acclaimed cartoonist Noelle Stevenson. It takes some fearlessn...

I've been following Noelle Stevenson on tumblr since 2011, the fanart days, and I always looked forward to his year-end reviews. I think I had read over half of this book previously online! But I really enjoyed reading these comics again, in chronological order, and with new narration to give them more context. As a memoir it's fairly loose, but many of the pieces hit very vulnerable emotional notes.

I love Noelle Stevenson's work and enjoyed this immensely. If you have followed Stevenson's work and life, you'll probably already know a lot of the content in this memoir, but even so, I never found myself bored or skim-reading because the way she presents these memories is worth reading from her direct perspective, even if you already know about it. I really enjoyed the throwback to some of her old tumblr art being included (it was a major trip down memory lane for me), and the convenient way

A powerful introduction by the author sets high expectations for an amazing graphic memoir, but then the book quickly degenerates to sketchbook doodling and noodling. It wasn't until page 48 that I found out this was a collection of blog entries. (No, I don't read cover copy, reviews, or promotional material for books by authors I like and know I will read regardless.)The diary-like quality gave some of the material a real sense of immediacy and power, but the year-in-review entries mostly felt

I'm not really sure how to rate this. I enjoyed reading it and it honestly inspired me, but it felt very scattered and a bit all over the place. i also felt the ending was kind of abrupt. honestly, the way it was organized felt like looking at an archive of the authors tumblrI'm glad I read this, I'm glad I bought it, I will be keeping it, but I don't think I'd recommend it? cw: self harm, unhealthy weight loss, discussion of mental illness

I was so much in love with the work of the author. And now I am in love with this memoir in sequential art.Before even starting with the proper content, I was bawling my eyes out reading the 'prologue' (or forward whatever that is) it is just sad but liberating to read something so relatable.The author talks about her formative years and who she is as of now. She talks about the rough times, times she had to leave behind some of the social norms and culture which she (surprise) did not miss; tim...

2.5 stars.This is an illustrated memoir that doesn't quite deliver what it promises. It's a collection of eight year-in-review blog posts, that explores her rise to fame, mental health issues, coming out, and falling in love. Plus, lots of random doodles and sketches.You know those annual letters that some people mail each Christmas that summarizes the family news? This read like that, only illustrated. The author keeps you at a distance. She doesn't really let you in. And while I understand tha...

A memoir by the author of Nimona, which I liked quite a bit. I guess I also have maybe read some of her work on Lumberjanes, but I knew and still know nothng of her web impact, which was/is all over the place, beginning with fanfiction comics about Lord of the Rings. She loves superheroes and D & D. And family, though coming out eventually as gay, she had to leave the church, as she didn't feel welcome there. I am not sure exactly why I so readily rated this four stars, as it is not really much

I’m a simple woman. Noelle Stevenson makes something, and I love it.

*4.5/5Gorgeous collection. My only issue with this was that, since I've been following Noelle for years and years online, I have seen most of this work before. But it was wonderful to see the breadth of her work and see the shifts in her style that have happened over the last decade or so. I also loved being able to revisit some of her early work!! The classic Noelle stuff was so nostalgic and lovely.

Unfortunately I thought this just took too long to get going. Roughly the first half of this book reads like just a list of accomplishments and events interspersed with tiny comics, all with no real introspection. And while it becomes clear in the second half why the first half is written that way and the second half does have some really good discussion of queerness and mental health, it still doesn't make the first half very engaging to read.

Perfect.

this book both called me out on my bullshit and offered me a nice and comprehending hug

I don’t know if Noelle reads Goodread comments at all but if you do: thank you so much for this book. I have been following you and your work since 2011 — reading the early parts of this book really took me back to when I was in high school and nerding out over your lord of the rings posts. I’ve had the outsider’s perspective of your artistic and professional journey through social media and your comics and shows and it was something special to get to read some of what your life was like and and...

representation: (all own voices) bipolar disorder, lesbian and non-binary rep, sapphic relationship.[trigger warnings are listed at the bottom of this review and may contain spoilers]★★★this was... good? this is essentially a collection of art done by noelle throughout the last decade with end of year wrap ups that she posted on tumblr each year put after each section. i wouldn't really call this a memoir? it's more of a collection of drawings with some more personal than others, but i really wa...