At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]

Comic books
Whedon a lifelong comic book fan is the author of the Dark Horse Comics miniseries Fray which takes place in the far future of the Buffyverse. Whedon graduated from Wesleyan University in 1987. He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) Angel (1999–2004) Firefly (2002) and Dollhouse (2009–2010) as well as Dr.

: /ˈwiːdən/; born June 23 1964) is an American screenwriter film and television producer director comic book author composer and actor. Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (pron. He is also the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures.