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Sylvia Nickerson | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | writer, professor |
Known for | Creation (graphic novel) |
Sylvia Nickerson (she/her) is a Canadian comic book writer.[1][2] In May 2020 Nickerson received The Nipper, one of the Doug Wright Awards for comic book artists, for her work Creation. Creation's themes include the changes she underwent when she became a mother, and how the works of artist helped shape the gentrification of her home town.[3] She is currently an assistant professor and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and McMaster University, respectively.
Nickerson, a resident of Hamilton, Ontario, was interviewed by the McMaster Silhouette on February 2, 2017 [4] and by the Hamilton Spectator, on April 4, 2019.[5]
Sylvia Nickerson received the Nipper, recognizing emerging talent, for her autobiographical comic Creation.
To learn more about her debut publication, Creation (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019), Vancouver-based artist and illustrator, karla monterrosa chats with the Hamilton-based comic artist and writer about her comic, gentrification, the intersection of identity and place, and the roles artists play in a community.
Sylvia Nickerson's autobiographical comic, Creation, is a story of transitions. Set roughly between 2008 and 2013, Nickerson explores the experience of becoming a mother and of moving as an artist through a rapidly changing city. The book reckons with gentrification in Hamilton, Ont., and the art community's role within that process, as well as the many ways motherhood has disrupted Nickerson's perspective on life, relationships and neighbourhood.
Nickerson is a graphic designer and illustrator, whose clientele has included the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Washington Post and the city of Hamilton.
This week on The Message, Hamilton artist Sylvia Nickerson talks her comic "Creation," and latest work, "All We Have Left Is This," that is now on display at the Assembly Gallery downtown.