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12 Facts About Nicole Hollander

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Nicole Hollander was born on April 25,1939 and is an American cartoonist and writer.

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Nicole Hollander is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2011 offering a course in writing the graphic novel.

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Nicole Hollander has led workshops and taught at Ohio State University, Columbia College Chicago, the Ox-Bow School of Art, Chicago's Printers Row Lit Fest, and for the Chicago Arts Partnership in Education.

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The gallery's simultaneous ten-year retrospective exhibit of Nicole Hollander's work was titled It's Enough to Make a Cat Laugh.

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In 2005, Nicole Hollander appeared in a one-woman show, Return to Lust, at Pegasus Players in Chicago.

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Nicole Hollander has published 19 Sylvia collections, including The Whole Enchilada, Tales from the Planet Sylvia, with an introduction by Barbara Ehrenreich, and The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama, with an introduction by Jules Feiffer.

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Nicole Hollander is the author of Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial and the illustrator of many books by other writers, including children's books by Robie Harris and books in praise of cats by Allia Zobel.

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Nicole Hollander's work was included in the satirical pro-choice comic book Choices alongside such fellow contributors as Howard Cruse, Jules Feiffer, Bill Griffith, Cathy Guisewite, Bill Koeb, Lee Marrs, Nina Paley and Garry Trudeau.

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Gina Barreca and Nicole Hollander collaborated on An ABC of Vice: An Insatiable Woman's Guide, which combines Barreca's text and Hollander's cartoons.

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Nicole Hollander's cartoons are featured on the covers and in the text of Getting in Touch with Your Inner Bitch and The Inner Bitch: Guide to Men, Relationships, Dating, Etc.

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In 2018, Nicole Hollander published her graphic memoir, We Ate Wonder Bread: Growing Up on Chicago's West Side.

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Nicole Hollander's work has formed the basis for several theatrical musicals, including Female Problems and Sylvia's Real Good Advice, winner of a Joseph Jefferson Award in 1991.