Nicole Georges

Artists Nicole and Clutch draw a diary comic for each of the 31 days of May. They depict going on tour with a band, doing karaoke, running workshops, friend drama, pet dachshunds, adventures at the Independent Publisher Resource Center, attending a comic con, bicycling, going to therapy and preparing CD covers and press releases for indie bands.

When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity, Nicole turns to radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice. Packed cover-to-cover with heartfelt and disarming black-and-white illustrations, Calling Dr. Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you are raised in a family of secrets, and what happens to your brain (and heart) when you learn the truth from an unlikely source. Part coming-of-age and part coming-out story, Calling Dr. Laura marks the arrival of an exciting and winning new voice in graphic literature.

This anthology of diary comics by Nicole J. Georges includes twelve issues of her zine Invincible Summer, and more than ten years worth of rare and never-before-seen stories about love, loss, teaching, joking, being a grouch, drawing graphic novels, dog death, and starting over.