Rachel Nabors is an American cartoonist, artist, and graphic novel

Graphic novel

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

Early life

Nabors was born in Harrisburg

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 in 1985. She left public school in the fifth grade to be homeschooled, and began drawing comics seriously at age fifteen.

Career

Soon after her nineteenth birthday, Nabors self-published 18 Revolutions, the first American graphic novel ever made by a teenage girl for teenage girls. This was soon followed by Crow Princess. She also has self-published several mini-comics including A Brief History of Grifonton and Subculture of One: the Body Issues.

She formerly lived in Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke, Virginia

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, and made comics for gURL.com

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 on a weekly basis until March 2008, when she got engaged and moved to North Carolina. She took her comics on hiatus until she could straighten out an important jaw surgery. In summer 2010 she had said surgery with the assistance and support of her fans. She is scheduled to return to comicking as a hobby at RacheltheGreat.com in spring 2011.

She also ran a banner exchange for comics by/for/about women at exchange.rubifruit.com as well as the manga review and news site MangaPunk.com. She now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina

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 and works as web designer.

Awards

The Friends of Lulu

Friends of Lulu

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 honored Nabors with the 2007 Kim Yale

Kim Yale

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Award for Best New Female Talent.

External links

• Subculture of One Nabors' site
• Rachel the Great Nabors' official comics site
• Subculture of One Nabors' old comics site
• gURL.com

Interviews

• Stephanie Mangold at Silver Bullet Comics
• Leigh Dragoon at Sequential Tart
• Mookychick
• Jen Contino at The Pulse