Rachel Nabors (born March 9, 1985) is an American cartoonist, artist, and

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ist, best known for their serialized comic, ''Rachel the Great'', as well as their two graphic novels, ''18 Revolutions'' and ''Crow Princess''.

Early life

Nabors was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1985. They left public school in the fifth grade to be homeschooled, and began drawing comics seriously at age fourteen. They started as a professional cartoonist at age seventeen when they began to receive a steady income from drawing comics.

Career

Soon after their nineteenth birthday, Nabors self-published ''18 Revolutions''. This was soon followed by ''Crow Princess.'' They also have self-published several mini-comics including ''A Brief History of Grifonton'' and ''Subculture of One: the Body Issues''. They made comics for

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on a weekly basis until March 2008, when they took a comics hiatus while they straightened out an important jaw surgery and got married. In summer 2010 they had said surgery with the assistance and support of their fans. However, they were unable financially to return to making comics and continued their career in web development instead. They also ran a banner exchange for comics by, for and about women at exchange.rubifruit.com as well as the manga review and news site MangaPunk.com. Currently they reside in

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working for Facebook on the React Core Team and travel the world teaching web animations at web development conferences.

Awards

The

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honored Nabors with the 2007 Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent.

References

External links

Rachel the Great
Nabors' current web development site
Rachel the Great
Nabors' official comics archive

Interviews

Leigh Dragoon at Sequential Tart

Mookychick

The Stack Overflow Podcast: EP261 From web comics to React core with Rachel Nabors
American female comics artists American women cartoonists American child businesspeople 1985 births Living people Artists from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Artists from Portland, Oregon People from Raleigh, North Carolina Artists from Roanoke, Virginia American cartoonists {{US-cartoonist-stub