Rachel Nabors

Rachel Nabors

Rachel Nabors (born March 9, 1985) is an American cartoonist, artist, and graphic novelist,cite web | last =Mangold | first =Stephanie | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =On the Range with Rachel Nabors | work =News@SilverBulletComics | publisher =Silver Bullet Comics | date =2006-08-09 | url =http://www.silverbulletcomics.com/news/story.php?a=2060 | accessdate =2007-12-22] best known for her serialized comic, "Rachel the Great", as well as her two graphic novels, "18 Revolutions" and "Crow Princess".

Early life

Nabors was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1985. She left public school in the fifth grade to be homeschooled, and began drawing comics seriously at age fifteen.

Career

Soon after her nineteenth birthday, Nabors self-published "18 Revolutions," the first American graphic novel ever made by a teenage girl for teenage girls. This was soon followed by "Crow Princess." She also has self-published the two mini-comics "A Brief History of Grifonton" and "Subculture of One: the Body Issues".

She formerly livesd in Roanoke, Virginia, and made comics for gURL.com on a weekly basis. She also ran the manga review and news site MangaPunk.com.

Now she writes comics as a hobby and has stopped making them for gURL.com every week.

Awards

The Friends of Lulu honored Nabors with the 2007 Kim Yale Award for Best New Female Talent.cite web | last =MacDonald | first =Heidi | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Friends of Lulu award Winners | work =The Beat: The News Blog of Comics Culture | publisher =Publisher's Weekly | date =2007-07-27 | url =http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/27/friends-of-lulu-award-winners/ | accessdate = 2007-12-22]

References

External links

* [http://www.subcultureofone.com Subculture of One] Nabors' official site
* [http://gurl.typepad.com/gurl_comix/rachel-nabors.html gURL.com]
* [http://www.mangapunk.com MangaPunk.com] Interviews
* [http://www.silverbulletcomics.com/news/story.php?a=2060 Stephanie Mangold at Silver Bullet Comics]
* [http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=195 Leigh Dragoon at Sequential Tart]
* [http://www.mookychick.co.uk/careers/mangapunk.php Mookychick]
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=002407 Jen Contino at The Pulse]


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