In response to the male-dominated comics industry’s 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 who’ve grown up together on the isolated island of Los Vagos. They’re 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.