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
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Never Tell Your Mother This Dream #2: No, I’m Sorry, Officer, I Don’t Know Where My Father Is
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER [Nicole Hollander, age 6] Perhaps you woke up this morning with the word “memoir” written in black crayon on a piece of orange origami paper stuck to your forehead. Or maybe, like me, you write and draw and you are out of work and you notice that people are deep into memoir … Continue reading
Never Tell Your Mother This Dream #1: Anger Management
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER A few years ago I did a strip about a store that opened on the West Coast for people who want to work out their anger on other people’s stuff. For a fee you could break everything in sight and then go home refreshed. I don’t know if I could break other … Continue reading