Nationality American Books Calling Dr. Laura Role Illustrator | Name Nicole Georges Area(s) zinester, cartoonist | |
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Notable works Invincible Summer
Calling Dr. Laura Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Graphic Novels & Comics | ||
Show and tell nicole georges
Nicole J. Georges (born c. 1981 in Kansas) is an illustrator, zinester and educator living in Portland, Oregon. She is best known as the author of the autobiographical comic zine Invincible Summer, whose individual issues have been collected into two anthologies published by Tugboat Press and Microcosm Publishing, and the graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura.
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- Show and tell nicole georges
- Nicole georges shares her thoughts on mainstream comics
- Books and illustration work
- Organizing teaching and extracurricular work
- Awards and tours
- Personal life
- References
Nicole georges shares her thoughts on mainstream comics
Books and illustration work
Georges has been creating Invincible Summer since 2000, and has published 23 issues of the zine. It is an autobiographical comic zine detailing her life with dogs, dates, coffee intake, teaching, and creative pursuits. The zine has a queer and feminist slant, and provides crafting tips and simple vegan recipes.
The first eight issues of Invincible Summer were collected by Tugboat Press in 2004, with the addition of a second volume (issues 9-14) published in 2008 by Microcosm Publishing.
She co-edited the zine Coffeeshop Crushes, and is a contributor to the zine Tell It Like It Tiz, which documents the lives and stories of senior citizens in Portland, Oregon.
Georges' illustrations have been found in The Rock n Roll Camp for Girls (Chronicle Books), Food & Booze (Tin House Press), Baby Remember My Name (Carroll & Graf), It's So You (Seal Press), Bitch magazine. She has created pet portrait-themed calendars and sold them in the Portland area and has been described as "a quintessentially Portland artist".
Her graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was released by Mariner Books in January 2013. The book was featured in Vanity Fair, USA Today, and named one of the "Best Books of Summer 2013" by Jezebel.com.
Her second graphic novel, Fetch, was released in July 2017.
Georges was the 2013/2014 Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont.
Organizing, teaching, and extracurricular work
Georges is a co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium, an organizer of the Midwest Underground Media Symposium, and has was involved with the Independent Publishing Resource Center from 2000-2015.
She chronicled her time working at Farm Sanctuary in her zine Invincible Summer, and taught Homorobics, a punk exercise class, from 2008-2009.
Georges has been teaching children, adults and seniors about zines, comics and self publishing for over a decade, and is currently on the roster of Writers In The Schools, The Right Brain Initiative, and Young Audiences of Oregon. She has been volunteering with the Portland Rock and Roll Camp for Girls since its inception in 2001. She has been volunteering with senior citizens for the past decade, creating a book about them called "Tell it like it tiz". She is currently on faculty at California College of the Arts.
Awards and tours
Georges was listed one of "Five Writers To Watch Out For" by the Lambda Literary Foundation, one of ten "Cartoonists Who Could Be the Next Dan Clowes" by Flavorwire, and one of eight "Worthy Successors to Alison Bechdel" by Flavorwire. Georges was named "Miss Specs Appeal 2006" by the zine Hey Four Eyes.
She traveled the country in 2007 with Sister Spit: The Next Generation (alongside Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles and Cristy Road), and again in 2010. She has also toured with Cassie J. Sneider, Microcosm Publishing, Fact or Fiction, and the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls (with Katy Davidson and sts).
Calling Dr. Laura won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Graphic Novel at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.
The French translation of "Calling Dr. Laura" ("Allo, Dr. Laura?") was an official selection at the 2016 Angouleme International Comics Festival.
Personal life
Georges is an open lesbian and made a video of herself discussing her sexuality with her mother, with plans to publish it on YouTube.