BY NICOLE HOLLANDER I’ve been working on a visual memoir called In the Old Neighborhood, which is a treatment of the ideas I worked on at Ragdale in 2010. I’m concentrating on the courtyard section of the building and the 3 families that lived in those apartments. My family lived in the middle apartment. The … Continue reading
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Never Tell Your Mother This Dream #7: Biography of a Graphic Memoir
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER 2 years ago I took a residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest Illinois. I was a given a huge studio with enormous ceilings, and a view of the prairie all around. I had been thinking about working on a graphic memoir telling the story of my childhood in Chicago from age 7 … Continue reading
Never Tell Your Mother This Dream #6: Slaying the Dragon
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER I’m in line for the Claes Oldenburg Mouse Museum and two old girls are wondering out loud whether the exhibit is worth waiting for…a perfect opening for me. I live to interfere. I describe the delights I believe await them. They dither and speak in a particularly New York Jewish way that … Continue reading