Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil Years as ‘The Girl Behind the Fishtank’

Ann Nocenti, the writer, journalist and filmmaker who wrote and edited some of the most iconic Marvel comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s — and who created the iconic characters Elektra and Longshot — joins the FAQ NYC podcast to discuss her early years in New York as “the girl who lived behind the fishtank,” quite literally.

She digs into how her work in asylums influenced her stories about superheroes, creating Marvel’s first openly transgender character, the role of “fake news” in the comics she’s working on now, and much more.