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Influences
Favorite zines are:
Rollerderby, Ben is Dead, Murder Can be Fun, KOOL Man, Duplex Planet, King Cat, Doris , Muffin Bones, Dirt & Cheese, Tough Love, Way Down Low
Favorite authors and artists:
Phoebe Gloeckner, Sue Coe, Lynda Barry, Lois Ann Yamanaka, Wally Lamb, Eileen Myles, and Michelle Tea.
Favorite Foods:
Right now i'm jamming with Russian Kale. I like chocolate cheesecakes in graham cracker crusts, anything in the donut family, samosas, but if i were rich and could eat whatever every day it would be Drunken Noodles from Thai Noon.
Listening To:
Grease, Dreamgirls, The Sound of Music, Langley Schools Music Project, Queen, The Transfused, Trina, and Le Tigre.
Favorite Past time:
Hanging out at the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls, drawing animals
Sounds Like
NJG is the author of autobiographical comic zine Invincible Summer, the anthology of which was published by Tugboat Press in 2004.
She has toured the country twice in support of this, most recently with the infamous Sister Spit Ramblin Road Show.
Nicole’s illustrations have appeared in:
It’s So You
Rock n Roll Camp for Girls! from Chronicle Books (spring 2008)
Bitch Magazine
Herbivore Magazine
Yeti Magazine
Clamor Magazine
Clit Rocket Fanzine
Colouring Outside the Lines
Hobart Pulp
Tin House Magazine
Food & Booze by Tin House Press
Girls will be boys will be
Baby Remember My Name
On Subbing
Hey, Four Eyes! Zine
Spokes of Hazard Zine
Figure 8 Zine
Coffeeshop Crushes
and more that she can’t recall at this moment.
Nicole teaches workshops on zining to children, adults, and senior citizens.
Invincible Summer: An Anthology Volume II will be our in May 2008 from Microcosm Publishing . she is currently working on a children’s book for Suspect Thoughts/ Suspect Tots,
an autobiographical graphic novel, several art shows, the new issue of invincible summer, and her yearly Invincible Summer/ Clutch diary comic!
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Thank you for the add. My partner (girlfriend/wife-if-it-were-legal) totally enjoy your zine compilations. She will be super jazzed that you are working on a graphic novel. Woo! Thank you for your words and drawings. They make us feel less alone. Based on what little I know about you, you might dig my band… we deal with some topics that overlap with what you write about… Well, thank you, and take care, Kara (1/2 of Team Smile and Nod)
i think you were still inside the phone booth when i was verbally hate-crimed for holding your zine on the sidewalk at 2am! this hipster asked me for a smoke and when i said i didnt smoke he retaliated with "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU? A ZINESTER? IS THAT A.. ZINEEE?? OHH MY GODDDDDD" ..it was an amazing moment, i'm sorry you had to miss it.
'Spectacular Preserves' looks terrific. Do you know if any of the portraits are available to view online, seen as I'm too ridiculously far away to see in the flesh? Hmmm, "flesh" may have just become my favourite word of the day! Melanie xox
that blonde girl with the back-pack on your hijacked webpage is totally not hot, and looking at her makes me want to take a nap. i was hoping that maybe someone really hot was responsible. now we know the truth.
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