Flocks is a graphic memoir of growing up trans in the small-town South.
L. Nichols, a trans man, artist, engineer and father of two, was born in rural Louisiana, assigned female and raised by conservative Christians.
Flocks is his memoir of that childhood, and of his family, friends and community, the flocks of
Flocks, that shaped and re-shaped him. L.'s irresistibly charming drawings demonstrate what makes
Flocks so special: L.'s boundless empathy.
Author: L. Nichols
Publisher: Secret Acres
Published: 09/15/2018
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780999193525
Age Range: 13-NA
Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/04/2018
Booklist 07/01/2018 pg. 32
Foreword 08/26/2018
About the Author
L. Nichols was born and raised in rural southwest Louisiana and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master's degree in Media Arts and Sciences, both from MIT. L. has a unique voice that utilizes the language of science and engineering to add an additional layer of meaning and complexity to his work. Nichols also incorporates elements of comics to turn his paintings into broader narrative forms. L. lives and works as an illustrator, comic artist, graphic designer, educator and sometime blacksmith with his wife and their two children in New York's Hudson Valley. He has been published in over a dozen comics and art books.