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Stephanie Williams
@stephwilliams.bsky.social
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Writer. Avid Charles Xavier hater. Written comics for MARVEL COMICS, DC COMICS, IDW, BOOM, ONI PRESS, and more.
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If I said Bones and Leprechaun in the Hood were camp would y’all yell at me 🫣
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I’m excited to work with Jeff Spokes on Wonder Woman #29 & #30. I love the Amazons, so I’m always down to visit Themyscira.

It’s bittersweet. My bf loved Diana and was my biggest supporter when I was working on Nubia. Although he is no longer here, I still hear his excitement. Love you, Aaron 🫂
WONDER WOMAN #29 Written by STEPHANIE WILLIAMS Art and cover by JEFF SPOKES Variant covers by DAVID NAKAYAMA, DAVID AJA, and ETHAN YOUNG Sweater Weather variant cover by ELIZABETH TORQUE $4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 1/21/26 After barely surviving the trials of Mouse Man, Wonder Woman takes a much-deserved night off thanks to her sisters. But are the Amazons ready for their greatest challenge yet? Because in the DC Universe, babysitting always leads to adventure! Gorgeous illustration of Wonder Woman by David Nakayama!
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Denzel update!
A sleepy German Sheppard who wants to be babied while I work.
October 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I’m deeply humbled and just wow…this is my why 🥹❤️‍🔥
Alt text: “Dear Stephanie, I saw Princess Tiana for the first time when I was six years old. I remember thinking to myself “huh…i didn’t know Black girls could wear ballgowns.” No character has recreated that feelings for me except for Nubia. I never thought that I would see a kind, gentle, patient, brave, strong, feminine, and regal Black woman with her natural hair in any piece of media. So, I just wanted to say thank you for writing her.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Catch me locked tf in at table G-34 this week at NYCC 👀
October 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Continued…
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Etta is off to the Meridian fellowship but something… isn’t quite right…

Check out the first look for ROOTS OF MADNESS #2 and tell your LCS to add it to your pull list by Mon., 10/6!

W: me
A & CVR B: Letizia Cadonici
C: Alessandro Santoro
L: Andworld Designs
CVR A: Juliet Nneka
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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NYCC week.
A picture of a football headed baby named Stewie Griffin. He looks crazed after drinking a Monster Energy drink.
October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I’ll be joining Jeremy Haun for an @ignitionpress.bsky.social double signing at Ultimate Comics in Cary, NC, tomorrow, Saturday, October 4th, from 12 to 4 p.m.!

If you’re near, please stop by to get a signed copy of Roots of Madness #1 and Murder Podcast #1!
October 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Words can’t even describe how it feels to have a story that felt like a burning fire within me, finally out into the world. I was so scared to write it, but that’s how I knew it was something I had to do—fear and all.
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I had the good fortune of hanging with my son’s entire 4th-grade class for National Comic Book Day 🥰

A huge thank you to Samatha Johnson and IDW Publishing for helping to make a memorable day for the kids by providing free Street Sharks comics!
A collage of photos featuring me talking to 4tg graders about comics!
September 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Some Denzel for your timeline 🥰
A Black American doggo ( 2 year old German Shepard) looking adorably sweet while getting a bath. He is wearing a hand band with ghosts on them since we're approaching spooky season! A Black American doggo ( 2 year old German Shepard) entering his christian girl fall era.
September 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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It's a national holiday, STREET SHARKS DAY!!!!
The image features the finnacle in shark excellence! The Street Sharks! The four Bolton Brothers are coming at you! Ripster, a great white shark with abs, ripped jeans, and cowboy boots! Streex, a tiger shark with abs and roller blades. Jab, a hammerhead shark with abs and an attitude. Big Slammu, a whale shark with abs and football pants! Above them are the biggest haters. Dr. Paradigm and his Seaviates!
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Starting next week, I have three No. 1s hitting shelves:

- Streets Sharks No. 1 - 9/24
- Roots of Madness No. 1 - 10/1
- Temporal No. 1 - 10/8

I'm proud of these books and the amazing teams behind them. Our mission? To remind you why comics are such a wonderfully relevant medium! ✨
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I finished a lettering pass for Street Sharks No. 2 and it turned out so fishing good! Ariel Medel (pencils/inks) and Valentina Pinto (color) are a dream team!

Jeff Eckleberry’s lettering is just *chefs kiss*

FOC 9/25/25

Releases 11/5/25
Street Sharks #2 cover. Four sharks with abs are in a circus ring with a hater named Dr. Paradigm who is wearing a ring leader fit over his suit. Cover A by Philip Murphy
September 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Am I a massive fan of manga and anime?

I don't know, but if you’ve been reading WARRIORS AND A WEE WONDER for free on the DC Infinite Universe app, that may give you the answer.

Art by Jane Pica with colors by Ariyana Taylor ✨
Split panel of Nubia and toddler Diana. Both are crying out with emotion. Toddler Diana swirling in magical energy. Nubia holds her shield up to deflect the energy so she can get to Diana.
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Roots of Madness #2 by Juliet Nneka

FOC 10/6/2025

Out 12/10/25
A young woman kneeling in a forest/garden among odd looking flowers. She’s holding a rabbit in her hand. Roots of Madness #2 A young woman kneeling in a forest/garden among odd looking flowers. She’s holding a rabbit in her hand.
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The root of my inspiration.

Roots of Madness FOC is today! Issue #1 drops October 1st!
I spent years in laboratories, measuring precise reactions and documenting predictable outcomes—a research scientist following a path that meant security, stability, and survival. When I left that life to pursue creative writing, I became the first in my family to transform their survival lessons into tools for dreaming. My family taught me resilience, strategic thinking, how to stretch resources and navigate systems not built for us—skills they honed for getting by, which I repurposed for reaching beyond. The discipline they used to maintain stability became my foundation for taking creative risks. The careful observation they employed to avoid danger became my method for building new worlds. It felt like stepping into a void while carrying a compass made from their wisdom, reshaping generational knowledge meant for protection into instruments for exploration. Roots of Madness emerged from this alchemy of survival and ambition. Etta Knight embodies this transformation: a brilliant chemist in 1905 who takes the healing knowledge her ancestors preserved through slavery and reconstruction and dares to push it further than they ever imagined. When she discovers an otherworldly flower, she applies her scientific training and inherited wisdom to unlock its secrets, believing she can honor her roots while transcending their boundaries. But in that space where survival knowledge meets cosmic ambition, she learns that some transformations exact a price from every generation that follows. This is a story about the delicate art of honoring where you come from while reaching for the impossible, about what happens when you're the first to alchemize survival into dreams. It's about discovering that sometimes the very wisdom that helps us soar also awakens hungers our ancestors were wise enough to leave sleeping.
August 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Some pages from ROOTS OF MADNESS that I got the ok to share. Letizia Cadonici style fits the story perfectly.

ROM is my Retrograde by James Blake.
August 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Cerby made their debut in this week’s WARRIORS AND A WEE WONDER 💕

I'm a huge fan of Absolute Wonder Woman if it’s not obvious by now 😂
Sketch of Cerby by Jane Pica, the Cerbus pup from Warriors and a Wee Wonder. All three heads nice, as Diana says.
August 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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a mini SDCC photodump (you can see more on Instagram)
It’s me at the IDW booth for my Street Sharks signing. I'm wearing a San Jose Sharks baseball jersey. Ig’s me doing yet another millennial peace sign and smile but this time with the incomparable David Nakayama. Me at the IDW booth again with Eamon Winkle who was kind enough to bring me this dope ass Jab he drew. I couldn't thank him enough. I've been collecting the sharks via commissions. Me holding up yet another millennial peace sign pose but I'm standing in front of a huge blown up version of the Roots of Madness cover by Julieg Nneka.
July 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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She’s giving shojo heroine as our editor Sabrina said.

WARRIORS AND A WEE WONDER has been such a love letter to the Wonderverse. I can’t stress how spoiled we’ve been with the art.

Image by @emilypearsonart.bsky.social and @fumisketchies.bsky.social
Nubia giving magical girl realness in the image
July 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I just think he’s neat 🥰

(also this pose is so Black mama coded)
In the image is our German Shepard, Denzel, looking like he is the primary bread winner in the house. There is a baby blue blanket with his name on it.
July 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM