2. Look at this Wishbone.
3. I get to get some new chickens very soon and I am STOKED. I can focus misguided maternal attention on some little fluffy chickens like an absolute crazy person.
***These are not my actual chickens*****
4. Oh, I posted this on twitter but I didn't tell YOU, blog reader: I got galleys of my book! WTF! Speaking of chicken weirdness, here I am looking at a phone with an amazingly giant chicken next to me.
5. Did you see this video of the Gossip playing on a talk show at Cannes, wherein our friend Beth Ditto does a grind dance with Sascha Baron Cohen as The Dictator?
You're welcome.
Keen eyed friends will see a familiar face in the background.
6. I have started reading the book Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel and was lucky enough to see her read from this treasure at the Bagdad last weekend with my lovely big sister in tow.
By the way, people asked her some amazingly inappropriate questions, which I will not divulge here.
Here is a picture of a picture being taken at her table. Sorry for the sasquatch-sighting quality of the photo.
7. I will be attending CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, this June, thanks to a generous grant from RACC, the Regional Arts & Culture Council. I'll also be on a panel of teachers. See you there!
8. Speaking of Comics Festivals, I met a Klingon at the Stumptown Comics Festival.
I also got to sit by Clutch McBastard & Carrie McNinch. What a pleasure!
Hello There!
Above is a panel from a comic about reading, done by a high school student who shall remain anonymous. It was one of my favorite panels from my recent residency at Benson High School.
Did you know I teach workshops and residencies to children, high school students, & senior citizens? I do. I will post more student work soon.
In the meantime, here is a cat portrait of someone named Winston, looking very handsome.
In case you are curious, the pet portrait scene over here is a little rough. Meaning, I am booked up through April at the moment. April-June I'll be too busy teaching to portrait for your pets, but after that we can talk.
If you are desperately seeking a portrait for a gift, consider getting a gift certificate! I will hand draw a gift certificate for your loved one, informing them of the gift they are to receive. Then you can wrap it up, see the look on their face, and they can have the joy of bossing me around themselves, instead of you doing it on their behalf.
Consider it!
I am currently working on the Vanport comic for Dill Pickle Club, planning my trip to the Chicago Zine Fest, and training daily, JUST IN CASE we get called for an Amazing Race audition.
Take care, more soon,
xoxo
n.g.
I'm the second shortest person in this picture.
Hello!
I can't WAIT for the Xmas season to be over so I can show you what I've been working on. Notably, a pet portrait and a holiday card.
But of course, these items must reach their intended recipients with the element of surprise intact, so until then, I just tell you that I cannot wait.
In other news, I'm working on the cover to my book as soon as the last pet portrait has cleared my desk.
What else- OH! Ooh La la! I believe I am going to TCAF this year!
I will tell you more about this later.
ALSO, I made some postcards. I think they are nice. There is a giant sort of disclaimer I included in the Etsy listing for them, because I find that random online shoppers (not you... ?) are a little less scruffy and/or forgiving than myself, and so I have a constant low-grade anxiety about letting them down.
Is this true? Who knows. But I've had someone fall out of their chair when the (gocco printed) greeting card they purchased from me arrived and was on a thinner stock than they'd expected.
So now, I either never list greeting cards or I do with a giant disclaimer.
If you're ever interested in a greeting card, let me know and we can talk.
But in the meantime, the postcards are nice! They are cute! I'd like them in my stocking if I didn't already have a box of them downstairs.
Here are the images from the postcards.
Here is a hand drawn bday card I included in a package for a customer.
I care! I'm scruffy, but I care.
Here are places you can get your last minute Invincible Summer calendar:
FROM ME, OF COURSE
LONDON:
Magma Books
EUREKA, CA:
Mae Henry
PORTLAND:
Food Fight Vegan Grocery
Land
Alberta Grocery CoOp
Crafty Wonderland Shop
Reading Frenzy
Powells City of Books (in the small press section)
Zim Zim
ONLINE:
Little Otsu
Buy Olympia
Thank you and good night.
xoxo
n.g.
Hello! Check out these guys having coffee & donuts. I drew them for a friend, who shall remain nameless because I can't remember if the unnamed person has given it as a surprise gift to their partner yet. Ahem.
Also, NO PET PORTRAITS OR COMMISSIONS UNTIL THE SUMMERTIME.
I'm up to my gills in book editing and teaching ,
where teenagers flip their hair at me and said "Wha!?!?" when I ask them not to talk over me.
Wow!
Have you seen Summer Heights High?
I really like it.
That is all.
Take care & enjoy the rabbit and cat.
n.g.
I'm Setting up snowmen ,
Sending off otters,
and taking pet portraits to the holiday galaxy of Robot Candy (owners of tiny reindeer, and purveyors of fine coasters and switchplates) to get resined before the big day!
P.s. If you notice I cross my arms and back up to people a lot in photos, it's because I'm trying to pretend I'm on the Amazing Race, and that's how teammates stand in their photos for the show.
9. I finished this really nice cat portrait. That's right, I said my own painting was nice. Because IT IS. Tabbies are hard! I was happy with it.
I don't know if I can accept any more pet portrait orders this year. I am booked up almost completely. It's intense. I'll let you know.
10. What's your opinion of Tan Mom?
Just kidding. I know what you think of Tan Mom. You don't even have to tell me.
11. I'm giving LIVE ADVICE on May 25th at the Waypost as part of Gridlords.
12. AWARDS- I did NOT win "Maker Overlord" of Portland, so I will NOT be riding on a float at the Starlight Parade. But I *DID* win "Teaching Artist of the Year" at the 2012 Sunburst Awards. I am picking up my giant trophy (not really) this Wednesday at a luncheon. Excited for that.
13. There is a new Zine and button shop in town! Portland Button Works is on Killingsworth next to Lillikoi, and you can get my zines there.
GOOD BYE!!!!
n.g.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Pet Portrait: William
This handsome character was commissioned by Virginia of Milky Boots fame, as a birthday gift.
Click on it, then enlarge for optimum viewing experience.
Happy Birthday Ollie!
Stay tuned for photos of the tattoo version of this fine fellow.
Click on it, then enlarge for optimum viewing experience.
Happy Birthday Ollie!
Stay tuned for photos of the tattoo version of this fine fellow.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Student Comic & Pet Portrait
Hello There!
Above is a panel from a comic about reading, done by a high school student who shall remain anonymous. It was one of my favorite panels from my recent residency at Benson High School.
Did you know I teach workshops and residencies to children, high school students, & senior citizens? I do. I will post more student work soon.
In the meantime, here is a cat portrait of someone named Winston, looking very handsome.
In case you are curious, the pet portrait scene over here is a little rough. Meaning, I am booked up through April at the moment. April-June I'll be too busy teaching to portrait for your pets, but after that we can talk.
If you are desperately seeking a portrait for a gift, consider getting a gift certificate! I will hand draw a gift certificate for your loved one, informing them of the gift they are to receive. Then you can wrap it up, see the look on their face, and they can have the joy of bossing me around themselves, instead of you doing it on their behalf.
Consider it!
I am currently working on the Vanport comic for Dill Pickle Club, planning my trip to the Chicago Zine Fest, and training daily, JUST IN CASE we get called for an Amazing Race audition.
Take care, more soon,
xoxo
n.g.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Pet Portrait- Chucho as the Virgin of Guadalupe
This was a Merry Merry Xmas present commissioned for the owner of Chucho by a dear friend of theirs.
Those are little pine cones and sticks floating around, btw.
Those are little pine cones and sticks floating around, btw.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Post Cards, Photo, etc etc
Hello!
I can't WAIT for the Xmas season to be over so I can show you what I've been working on. Notably, a pet portrait and a holiday card.
But of course, these items must reach their intended recipients with the element of surprise intact, so until then, I just tell you that I cannot wait.
In other news, I'm working on the cover to my book as soon as the last pet portrait has cleared my desk.
What else- OH! Ooh La la! I believe I am going to TCAF this year!
I will tell you more about this later.
ALSO, I made some postcards. I think they are nice. There is a giant sort of disclaimer I included in the Etsy listing for them, because I find that random online shoppers (not you... ?) are a little less scruffy and/or forgiving than myself, and so I have a constant low-grade anxiety about letting them down.
Is this true? Who knows. But I've had someone fall out of their chair when the (gocco printed) greeting card they purchased from me arrived and was on a thinner stock than they'd expected.
So now, I either never list greeting cards or I do with a giant disclaimer.
If you're ever interested in a greeting card, let me know and we can talk.
But in the meantime, the postcards are nice! They are cute! I'd like them in my stocking if I didn't already have a box of them downstairs.
I care! I'm scruffy, but I care.
Here are places you can get your last minute Invincible Summer calendar:
FROM ME, OF COURSE
LONDON:
Magma Books
EUREKA, CA:
Mae Henry
PORTLAND:
Food Fight Vegan Grocery
Land
Alberta Grocery CoOp
Crafty Wonderland Shop
Reading Frenzy
Powells City of Books (in the small press section)
Zim Zim
ONLINE:
Little Otsu
Buy Olympia
Thank you and good night.
xoxo
n.g.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
House & Pet Portraits
Here, have a house:
It's a panel from my upcoming book.
Secondly, more importantly,
PET PORTRAIT SLOTS ARE FILLED FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
If you would like to purchase a gift certificate for your loved one to receive a pet portrait in 2012, that would be lovely.
Here are some pet portraits from the recent past:
Take Care! Have a nice week!
n.g.
It's a panel from my upcoming book.
Secondly, more importantly,
PET PORTRAIT SLOTS ARE FILLED FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
If you would like to purchase a gift certificate for your loved one to receive a pet portrait in 2012, that would be lovely.
Here are some pet portraits from the recent past:
Take Care! Have a nice week!
n.g.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Beija and the Calendar
Good Day.
Things I want to tell you:
1. Calendars are here! I am about to bag them up for stores and stick them in envelopes for humans.
Here is a picture of every month's image. Just so you know.
Everything is (c) Nicole J. Georges. What a drag.
Secondly and more importantly,
here is a photo of Beija Georges, taken by Carli Davidson.
Image (c) Carli Davidson. Do not download.
Wonder who Carli Davidson is? WELL. She is an animal photographer (she has worked both with wild animals and pets).
One of her specialties, and my personal favorite, is her "Pets with Disabilities" project, which must be seen to be believed.
You will find on her page a photo of a chihuahua and his seeing eye pug.
With her permission I drew them for this year's calendar.
Look at her page! Get your pets over there! Get some prints!
That's all I'll say.
Did I post this yet?
It's the cover of a practice zine we did with students at the IPRC Comic Certificate Program.
I drew the picture. Jesse Reklaw did the lettering.
I think that's all I have to say. Since I am unabashedly procrastinating right now instead of finishing the final final edits for my book.
EXCEPT:
Do you know who Julie Klausner is? Check out her podcast.
She has saved me from a world of man-driven podcast listening.
It gets so hard to keep a giant block of salt in your mind in order to digest the comedy of the Adam Carolla podcast without consuming the horrible horrible politics.
Thank God for her.
And her beautiful hair.
Things I want to tell you:
1. Calendars are here! I am about to bag them up for stores and stick them in envelopes for humans.
Here is a picture of every month's image. Just so you know.
Everything is (c) Nicole J. Georges. What a drag.
Secondly and more importantly,
here is a photo of Beija Georges, taken by Carli Davidson.
Image (c) Carli Davidson. Do not download.
Wonder who Carli Davidson is? WELL. She is an animal photographer (she has worked both with wild animals and pets).
One of her specialties, and my personal favorite, is her "Pets with Disabilities" project, which must be seen to be believed.
You will find on her page a photo of a chihuahua and his seeing eye pug.
With her permission I drew them for this year's calendar.
Look at her page! Get your pets over there! Get some prints!
That's all I'll say.
Did I post this yet?
It's the cover of a practice zine we did with students at the IPRC Comic Certificate Program.
I drew the picture. Jesse Reklaw did the lettering.
I think that's all I have to say. Since I am unabashedly procrastinating right now instead of finishing the final final edits for my book.
EXCEPT:
Do you know who Julie Klausner is? Check out her podcast.
She has saved me from a world of man-driven podcast listening.
It gets so hard to keep a giant block of salt in your mind in order to digest the comedy of the Adam Carolla podcast without consuming the horrible horrible politics.
Thank God for her.
And her beautiful hair.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Did I ever show you these pet portraits?
A trio of pet portraits!
I even got to meet this trifecta of furriness.
If you want to see all the portraits I've done (give or take) in the past year or so, click on the label Pet Portraits below, or click here.
xoxo
n.g.
I even got to meet this trifecta of furriness.
If you want to see all the portraits I've done (give or take) in the past year or so, click on the label Pet Portraits below, or click here.
xoxo
n.g.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Update & Pet Portraits
Hello out there!
I am about to go out of town, so my Etsy shop will be on vacation mode.
Here's some news:
I am happy to have the COVER of the Bad Roommate Zine in my clutches.
The cover was completed by the very lovely Lily Pepper.
As for the zine itself,
it will NOT be out by the Zine Symposium, but it WILL be out soon. I am still collecting everything, but as of now I have EXCELLENT submissions from the likes of Carrie McNinch, Laura Moulton, Lisa Eisenberg , J.T. Yost, and more.
Here are a couple of pet portraits I've just finished.
I won't be accepting pet portrait orders again until the fall, as I toil over the last bits of my book (yes, still!).
I'm not going to be at the Zine Symposium this year, but I will be represented!
I believe Tugboat Press will be peddling the latest Invincible Summer/Clutch split,
and there will be a new new new issue of Tell It Like It Tiz, the zine I do with senior citizens.
Take care!
n.g.
p.s. Don't forget to take a look at my weekly dog comic, Muttley Crue, in the Nomad Editions magazine Good Dog .
I am about to go out of town, so my Etsy shop will be on vacation mode.
Here's some news:
I am happy to have the COVER of the Bad Roommate Zine in my clutches.
The cover was completed by the very lovely Lily Pepper.
As for the zine itself,
it will NOT be out by the Zine Symposium, but it WILL be out soon. I am still collecting everything, but as of now I have EXCELLENT submissions from the likes of Carrie McNinch, Laura Moulton, Lisa Eisenberg , J.T. Yost, and more.
Here are a couple of pet portraits I've just finished.
I won't be accepting pet portrait orders again until the fall, as I toil over the last bits of my book (yes, still!).
I'm not going to be at the Zine Symposium this year, but I will be represented!
I believe Tugboat Press will be peddling the latest Invincible Summer/Clutch split,
and there will be a new new new issue of Tell It Like It Tiz, the zine I do with senior citizens.
Take care!
n.g.
p.s. Don't forget to take a look at my weekly dog comic, Muttley Crue, in the Nomad Editions magazine Good Dog .
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Terrarium Fever, Amazing Race, Sister Spit & More
Hello!
1. I made a terrarium. I went to a terrarium-making birthday party for a friend and came home with my very own fishbowl full of flora, complete with miniature house and mushroom. I can now space out and stare at the terrarium's landscape every morning instead of just staring at the cereal box.
How about a close up?
We've got some Irish Moss in there, and a little moss blob to the left, in the back yard of the ceramic house.
The terrarium is made of a fishbowl, some rocks, charcoal bits, dirt, more rocks, and tiny hand selected plants. I am obsessed! My friend Jenny is a terrarium expert and sometimes will even sell you one already made.
Easy!
2. I finished this pet portrait of a lovely dog named Restaurant last week, and had it resined (as always) with the ladies at Robot Candy.
Thanks to hand model Katy Davidson.
Tiz the last portrait I'll finish before completing my book! (knockonwoodknockonwoodknockonwood)
3. CONFIDENTIAL TO WATCHERS OF THE AMAZING RACE:
Did you see the Amazing Race this week? It was brutal and amazing that the "Dating Goths" U-turned the people right behind them: The vicious cheerleaders! Jaime and Cara could be so nasty, I was of course glad to see them go, BUT I found out that the Goths'd had 11 (ELEVEN) hours to get from the pit stop to the mandatory flight in China, and their fellow race-mates were miffed that they were given only a 30 minute penalty for missing a mandatory flight. What do you think?
Also, what's with the "you're still racing" pit stops? Are these in place so the producers can keep favorite teams racing even when they come in last? I'm so confused.
4. NEW Advice Column Up (for adults only), covering questions about placenta etiquette, cougars, radiation and more.
5. I'm reading with Sister Spit on Monday! Also, I'm reading at SmallPressPalooza on Monday! Two shows in one day. Different things at each show. Please come out! Monday March 28th. SmallPressPalooza is at 6 at Powells, Sister Spit is at 8 at Holocene.
6. A little spotlight for you on some of the people on the Sister Spit (/Mister Spit) train coming to Portland:
Amos Mac and Mari Naomi
Amos Mac is a photographer and co-founder of the trans male quarterly magazine Original Plumbing (OP to you).
He does brilliant portraits and author photos, and took this photo of me a couple of years ago as part of The Creamcicle Project for our friend Rhiannon Argo, in which I look much more dissatisfied than I do in real life.
......Right?
MariNaomi is an artist from San Francisco who has just released a book called Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume Ages 0-22, and has been keeping a fantastic comic tour diary here.
They will be joined by Michelle Tea, Ali Liebegott, Myriam Gurba, Kirk Read, Blake Nelson, and special guests Matilda Bickers and Chelsea Starr.
Get tickets for Sister Spit here.
Over and Out.
Good Day.
p.s. Wishbone got ten (10!) teeth removed exactly two weeks ago. Way to go, Wishbone!
1. I made a terrarium. I went to a terrarium-making birthday party for a friend and came home with my very own fishbowl full of flora, complete with miniature house and mushroom. I can now space out and stare at the terrarium's landscape every morning instead of just staring at the cereal box.
How about a close up?
We've got some Irish Moss in there, and a little moss blob to the left, in the back yard of the ceramic house.
The terrarium is made of a fishbowl, some rocks, charcoal bits, dirt, more rocks, and tiny hand selected plants. I am obsessed! My friend Jenny is a terrarium expert and sometimes will even sell you one already made.
Easy!
2. I finished this pet portrait of a lovely dog named Restaurant last week, and had it resined (as always) with the ladies at Robot Candy.
Thanks to hand model Katy Davidson.
Tiz the last portrait I'll finish before completing my book! (knockonwoodknockonwoodknockonwood)
3. CONFIDENTIAL TO WATCHERS OF THE AMAZING RACE:
Did you see the Amazing Race this week? It was brutal and amazing that the "Dating Goths" U-turned the people right behind them: The vicious cheerleaders! Jaime and Cara could be so nasty, I was of course glad to see them go, BUT I found out that the Goths'd had 11 (ELEVEN) hours to get from the pit stop to the mandatory flight in China, and their fellow race-mates were miffed that they were given only a 30 minute penalty for missing a mandatory flight. What do you think?
Also, what's with the "you're still racing" pit stops? Are these in place so the producers can keep favorite teams racing even when they come in last? I'm so confused.
4. NEW Advice Column Up (for adults only), covering questions about placenta etiquette, cougars, radiation and more.
5. I'm reading with Sister Spit on Monday! Also, I'm reading at SmallPressPalooza on Monday! Two shows in one day. Different things at each show. Please come out! Monday March 28th. SmallPressPalooza is at 6 at Powells, Sister Spit is at 8 at Holocene.
6. A little spotlight for you on some of the people on the Sister Spit (/Mister Spit) train coming to Portland:
Amos Mac and Mari Naomi
Amos Mac is a photographer and co-founder of the trans male quarterly magazine Original Plumbing (OP to you).
He does brilliant portraits and author photos, and took this photo of me a couple of years ago as part of The Creamcicle Project for our friend Rhiannon Argo, in which I look much more dissatisfied than I do in real life.
......Right?
MariNaomi is an artist from San Francisco who has just released a book called Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume Ages 0-22, and has been keeping a fantastic comic tour diary here.
They will be joined by Michelle Tea, Ali Liebegott, Myriam Gurba, Kirk Read, Blake Nelson, and special guests Matilda Bickers and Chelsea Starr.
Get tickets for Sister Spit here.
Over and Out.
Good Day.
p.s. Wishbone got ten (10!) teeth removed exactly two weeks ago. Way to go, Wishbone!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
A Recent Commission
Hello! Check out these guys having coffee & donuts. I drew them for a friend, who shall remain nameless because I can't remember if the unnamed person has given it as a surprise gift to their partner yet. Ahem.
Also, NO PET PORTRAITS OR COMMISSIONS UNTIL THE SUMMERTIME.
I'm up to my gills in book editing and teaching ,
where teenagers flip their hair at me and said "Wha!?!?" when I ask them not to talk over me.
Wow!
Have you seen Summer Heights High?
I really like it.
That is all.
Take care & enjoy the rabbit and cat.
n.g.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Happy Holidays!
I'm Setting up snowmen ,
Sending off otters, 
and taking pet portraits to the holiday galaxy of Robot Candy (owners of tiny reindeer, and purveyors of fine coasters and switchplates) to get resined before the big day!
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About Me
- NJG
- Nicole J. Georges is an illustrator , zinester, and pet portrait artist located in a neighborhood of geriatrics in Portland, Oregon. She is currently the fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. She is accompanied through life by a Chihuahua/Shiba-inu named Ponyo Georges. .Nicole's debut graphic novel Calling Dr. Laura is out NOW with Mariner Books.