PAGE 46 — About the Author
Rachel Nabors
[Self-portrait illustration of Rachel with short dark hair and glasses]
I dropped out of school in the fifth grade because it didn't suit me. The classes were boring and my classmates were unbearable (not unlike the children you met earlier in this book). So, my mom started homeschooling me. Soon I took the reins and, with the help of my local library, started teaching myself about ornithology, Egyptology, and, most important, comicking. Without my mother's consideration for my welfare, I would never have gotten so far. (Thanks, Mom!)
Currently I live in the country where I raise chickens. I share my quarters with a perverted shell parakeet named Tenno and my somewhat less perverted dog named Kitty who has a shoe fetish (you don't want to know what kind of fetishes Tenno has!). I have a penchant for vintage gadgetry, cosmetics, birds, crop circles, popcorn, and anything that comes with an instruction manual. My love of attractive, longhaired young men in both art and daily life is legendary and the subject of many private jokes.
I have published one other book prior to this one, 18 Revolutions, a collection of my comic work through age eighteen. It's available through the store on my site: www.SubcultureOfOne.com/shop
My advice to aspiring comickers, writers, and artists is thus: practice, publish, repeat. Self-publish if necessary. Submit to publishers where possible. Never give up. Latch on to what you want with fangs bared and claws sunk deep. Learn to laugh at yourself and everyone else.
[Small illustration with speech bubble: "I made this!"]
[Signature: Rachel Nabors]
[Cover image of "18 Revolutions" book]
Visit me online at www.SubcultureOfOne.com for more comix and art
