Nicole Hollander
1440 N. Dayton, #205
Chicago, IL 60622
Cartooning.
Nicole Hollander is represented by the Tribune Media Services. Her cartoon strip SYLVIA appears daily and weekly in over 80 newspapers, among them: The Boston Globe, The Chicago TribuneThe Detroit News, The Seattle Times, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, and The Denver Post. She has published numerous collections of her cartoons with St. Martin's Press, Random House and Avon Books. Nicole has also been a member of the Graphic Artists Guild for over 20 years. In her words:
I learned to read because of the Sunday comics. My parents taught me to so they could lounge around on Sunday mornings without my imploring them to read to me. Someone recently pointed out that all my favorite comics were those that had no words: like Henri and The Little King...so did I really know how to read or did I just think I was reading?
In between then and the 1970s, I didn't pay much attention to comic strips. My life didn't seem to be reflected in them, not that I actually thought this at the time. I just stopped looking at the comic pages.
I was going to be an artist. I was going to paint the dark side of my psyche. I was allowed to stand in front of a canvas and project my darkest thoughts at the University of Illinois in Urbana because that was thought to be the place to attract a husband who would have a profession.
I did manage to get married right after graduating. Right on schedule, but to the wrong man. We discovered our mistake and he took to marrying and I took to cartooning. During our short marriage I attended Boston University and received a MFA. I was still in my dark phase.
I have had many jobs: waitress, secretary to the Musical Director of the Westminster Choir College, social worker for the Cook Country Department of Public Aid, art teacher, and graphic designer. It was as a graphic designer that I met Karen Fishman the publisher of a nationally distributed feminist newsletter called "The Spokeswoman." I redesigned the publication to make it more like a magazine and in the course of working with Karen I began to illustrate the articles with piggish judges and vengeful good witches.
One day I did a comic strip, and then another. I did one of a man and woman sitting in front of two pieces of pie. Hers is smaller. She points to the sky and he looks up. She switches the plates and gets the bigger slice of pie. What could be more satisfying than that? I was hooked.
www.nicolehollander.com
1440 N. Dayton, #205
Chicago, IL 60622
Cartooning.
Nicole Hollander is represented by the Tribune Media Services. Her cartoon strip SYLVIA appears daily and weekly in over 80 newspapers, among them: The Boston Globe, The Chicago TribuneThe Detroit News, The Seattle Times, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, and The Denver Post. She has published numerous collections of her cartoons with St. Martin's Press, Random House and Avon Books. Nicole has also been a member of the Graphic Artists Guild for over 20 years. In her words:
I learned to read because of the Sunday comics. My parents taught me to so they could lounge around on Sunday mornings without my imploring them to read to me. Someone recently pointed out that all my favorite comics were those that had no words: like Henri and The Little King...so did I really know how to read or did I just think I was reading?
In between then and the 1970s, I didn't pay much attention to comic strips. My life didn't seem to be reflected in them, not that I actually thought this at the time. I just stopped looking at the comic pages.
I was going to be an artist. I was going to paint the dark side of my psyche. I was allowed to stand in front of a canvas and project my darkest thoughts at the University of Illinois in Urbana because that was thought to be the place to attract a husband who would have a profession.
I did manage to get married right after graduating. Right on schedule, but to the wrong man. We discovered our mistake and he took to marrying and I took to cartooning. During our short marriage I attended Boston University and received a MFA. I was still in my dark phase.
I have had many jobs: waitress, secretary to the Musical Director of the Westminster Choir College, social worker for the Cook Country Department of Public Aid, art teacher, and graphic designer. It was as a graphic designer that I met Karen Fishman the publisher of a nationally distributed feminist newsletter called "The Spokeswoman." I redesigned the publication to make it more like a magazine and in the course of working with Karen I began to illustrate the articles with piggish judges and vengeful good witches.
One day I did a comic strip, and then another. I did one of a man and woman sitting in front of two pieces of pie. Hers is smaller. She points to the sky and he looks up. She switches the plates and gets the bigger slice of pie. What could be more satisfying than that? I was hooked.
www.nicolehollander.com
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