Author of
Calling Dr. Laura (HarperCollins, 2013)
Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home (HarperCollins, 2017)
Nicole J. Georges is a writer, illustrator, podcaster & professor from Portland, OR.
Nicole has been publishing autobiographical comics about her queer vegan life for the past 25 years, evolving from teen zinester to graphic novelist.
Her work explores themes including identity, family secrets, queer community, animals, self-help, and the inner workings of a queer, punk feminist from a Syrian-American home.
Nicole teaches at California College for the Art’s MFA in Comics Program.
She splits her time between Portland and Los Angeles with her chomeranian best friend, Ponyo Georges, and is the host of the queer art, advice & vegan food podcast, Sagittarian Matters.
Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / TikTok / nicolejgeorges.com
Nicole J. Georges
Books by Nicole
Calling Dr. Laura (HarperCollins, 2013)
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her mother told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her half-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.
Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home (HarperCollins, 2017)
When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix — a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression, relationships gone awry, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene, Beija was there, wearing her "Don’t Pet Me" bandana.
Georges’s gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing — a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets, dog whisperers, and even a pet psychic for help, but it is the moments of accommodation, adaption, and compassion that sustain them. Nicole never successfully taught Beija "sit," but in the end, Beija taught Nicole how to stay.