Lumberjanes

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Name: Lumberjanes
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Creator: ND Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen, and Shannon Watters
Date(s): 2014
Medium: Print comics
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Lumberjanes is a comic book series created by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooklyn A. Allen and ND Stevenson[1] and published via the Boom Box! imprint of Boom!Studios. The story follows a group of girls named Mal, Ripley, Molly, April, and Jo spending summer at a scout camp, and the strange creatures and supernatural phenomena they encounter there. Originally planned as an eight-part series, the comic was made an ongoing series following strong sales and critical acclaim.[2]

Canon

Characters

  • Jo, a Lumberjane and a trans girl
  • Mal Yoo, a butch lesbian Lumberjane
  • Molly, a lesbian Lumberjane
  • Ripley, a Lumberjane
  • April, a Lumberjane
  • Jen, a Lumberjane camp counselor
  • Rosie
  • Barney, formerly the in-universe equivalent of Boy Scouts, now a Lumberjane using they/them pronouns

Fandom

A fan of Lumberjanes is called a "Lumberjumbie", which is a gender-neutral term.[3]

The most popular pairing on Archive of Our Own is Mal/Molly, which (as of August 2023) has 75 works out of a total of 172 Lumberjanes fanworks on AO3. April/Jo and Diane/Hes are the next most popular pairings, with 15 and 11 works respectively.

Fanworks

Fanart

Fanfiction

child's play by isoscele Date: 2016Length: 48kStatus: WIPGenre: Hunger Games fusion
In which there is no way in hell Jen will let those kids die in the arena, and she will go to whatever lengths necessary to keep them safe.
an abundance of ichor by graveExcitement (arachnids) Date: 2014Length: 2kStatus: CompleteGenre: Romance
or: Love in the Time of Giant Mosquitoes. (Mal/Molly)
Kitchen-Sized by Mosca Date: 2017Length: 2kStatus: CompleteGenre: Crossover with The Great British Bake Off
When an attempt at a three-layer meringue ends in dessert catastrophe, Ripley becomes Roanoke's only hope of earning the Advanced European Baking badge.

Archives

Resources

References

  1. ^ "SDCC '15: Shannon Watters Talks The Future Of Lumberjanes - Bleeding Cool News And Rumors". Bleedingcool.com. 15 July 2015. Archived from the original on 2018-10-11. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Interview: Shannon Watters on Lumberjanes". Icv2.com. 2014-10-17. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
  3. ^ @BrooklynAAllen, who seems to have coined the term, confirmed here in 2015. (archive)