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The 22-page "Female Force: Dolly Parton" will
be released on March 31, in print and digital formats.
Singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman Parton, who has 11
Grammy Awards under her belt, has sold more than 100 million
records since releasing her first album in 1967.
Earlier this month, the 75-year-old shared a video of herself
getting the COVID-19 vaccination, rejigging her hit song
"Jolene" with the word "vaccine" as she urged others to do the
same.
A $1 million donation from the singer last year helped fund
early-stage research by Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
Tennessee with Moderna on its COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273.
"Writing about Dolly was a joy," writer Michael Frizell said in
a statement. "Her creativity, philanthropy and humanity are
legendary."
Parton joins the likes of former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama,
singer Cher, women's rights campaigner Gloria Steinem and nun
Mother Teresa in having a biographical comic written about her.
"We've found a niche with our bio comics," TidalWave publisher
Darren G. Davis said. "There is a much wider audience for
sequential storytelling than many have thought. These readers
are simply looking for something other than superheroes."
(Reporting by Alicia Powell and Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing
by Alex Richardson)
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