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Flocks is the memoir of a trans man, artist, engineer and father, born to conservative Christians in rural Louisiana, and assigned female.
Info autore
L. Nichols was born and raised in rural southwest Louisiana and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Media Arts and Sciences, both from MIT. L. has a unique voice that utilizes the language of science and engineering to add an additional layer of meaning and complexity to his work. Nichols also incorporates elements of comics to turn his paintings into broader narrative forms. L. lives works as an illustrator, comic artist, graphic designer, educator and sometime blacksmith with his wife and their two children in New York’s Hudson Valley. He has been published in over a dozen comics and art books.
Riassunto
Flocks is a graphic memoir of growing up trans in the small-town South.
L. Nichols, a trans man, artist, engineer and father of two, was born in rural Louisiana, assigned female and raised by conservative Christians. Flocks is his memoir of that childhood, and of his family, friends and community, the flocks of Flocks, that shaped and re-shaped him. L.’s irresistibly charming drawings demonstrate what makes Flocks so special: L.’s boundless empathy.
Prefazione
- National Print Campaign:
Advance copies to the following publications: the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, the Atlantic Monthly, Portland Monthly, the Portland Mercury, the Stranger, Bitch, Print, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Midwest Book Review, the LA Times, the LA Review of Books and many others. - Advance copies to trades Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal.
- Online Media Campaign:
Advance copies, interview and review pitches to: NPR, the Huffington Post, Comics Beat, the Comics Reporter, the Comics Journal, Comic Book Resources, Flavorwire, Pop Matters, Inkstuds, Under the Radar, Paste Magazine, the Onion A.V. Club and Slate among others. - Promotion through the Secret Acres Scuttlebutt blog, Secret Acres Facebook, Twitter and tumblr and through L. Nichols’s website, Instagram, tumblr and Twitter.
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