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This account is for WIPs, art reference, playing around, and occasionally promoting finished projects. My for-real website full of professional junk is theonicole.com. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theonicole

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WHY CAT WHY: a coloring book explaining cats is available NOW!

Why do cats do the weird things they do? Why do we let these pointy, inconvenient creatures and their buttholes into our homes? This book explains cats (and why we love them) with 26 fun and informative coloring pages.

I’m awfully fond of this book. And of cats. 

Please enjoy these free coloring pages! (And buy my book if you want more) 

Shiny Actual Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997573848 

Print at home download: https://gumroad.com/l/BcnIY

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IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S HERE!!! And just in time for Halloween!

Making Friends in the Afterworld is a creepy-cute picture book which was written by my dear friend Jonathan, illustrated by me, and colored by our friend Lee at @studiointerrobang. It's about friendship, finding people who love you for who you are (even if you're a little bit weird), and cupcakes.

This book is chock full of heart! And also other organs. But mostly heart!

You can find it right here on Amazon or request it from your local bookstore. 

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Earlier this year, I sold the coloring books that made up about 95% of my income to a publisher. This was a great move for a lot of reasons – getting my books into brick and mortar stores means more people can pick them up, and those books get better promotion, quality control, and overall awesomeness thanks to Sourcebooks’ fabulous print job.

(Also, I get to visit the Unicorns Are Jerks 3-in-1 book whenever I go to Target. STILL NOT OVER THAT.)

The downsides of moving into traditional publishing are that I get paid less per book and I no longer have a monthly paycheck. I’m living off my advance and savings and crossing my fingers that the royalty report I get every six months will say good things.

This is why I started looking into Patreon.

Showing other people what I’m working on is a huge motivator for me, so I’m excited to have a new way to do that! If you support me on Patreon, you can look forward to WIP posts about projects I can’t talk about publicly yet, misfit coloring pages that didn’t make it into my books (and maybe Patreon-exclusive coloring pages?), and pictures of my cats, because why not.

My Patreon account is right here. Thanks for reading!

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Starter Pokekittens!

Drawn wrong-handed because my dominant hand went NOPE five days before the Cat Video Festival’s artist alley. All of these little floofs are available as prints, shirts, and more on my Society 6 page!

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BIG NEWS: Target is carrying this huge, 3-in-1 edition of my coloring books!!!

It contains full versions of Unicorns Are Jerks, Dinosaurs With Jobs, and Mer World Problems, and it retails for $12.99 but is currently 20% off. (At least at my Target. OMFG A BOOK I MADE IS AT MY TARGET. I WENT GROCERY SHOPPING AND VISITED MY BOOK.)

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Robot friends! Did your sentience come with a longing for love? Do love interests run from your laser eyes? Does your programming lack a flirtation protocol? Then you are holding the right coloring book!

The Robot's Guide to Love features 22 pages of romantic advice sure to help any robot find a human, robot, or toaster to love.

I'm going to level with you, friends: This is my favorite dang coloring book I've made. It's about things dear to my heart, like love and loss and laser eyes, and it turned out even cuter than I had imagined. And gayer. And sillier.

I love it a lot. I hope you will, too.

The Robot's Guide to Love is now available through Amazon and the Createspace e-store.

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Coming soon: The Apocalypse Coloring and Activity Book!

I’ve been sitting on this news for a while now, and I’m SO EXCITED to be able to tell you…

I have a new coloring book coming out next spring with Sterling Publishing! It’s called The Apocalypse Coloring and Activity Book, and it’s an informative, upbeat guide to surviving many common apocalypse scenarios – with fun activity pages!

What can you expect to find in The Apocalypse Coloring and Activity Book? Well, among other things:

A bright side to the nuclear apocalypse

Tips on how best to deal with life in a frozen hellscape, plague-riddled wasteland, and more!

A quiz to help you assess whether your ally is secretly a killer robot

Mazes and other fun activities to help pass the time in your bunker

Finally, an answer to the question “Should I take a selfie with a zombie?” (Spoiler: NO)

And because it’s me, there’s body diversity and stuff, too.

The Apocalypse Coloring and Activity Book, guys. It’s going to be a thing. I’m still kind of in shock that a real publisher actually let me make this. (Shoutout to my editor, Kate Zimmerman, who has been fantastic to work with!)

I can’t wait to share this book with all of you. I hope you like it.

(And never fear, I’m still planning on self-publishing another coloring book before the year is up. If all goes well, The Robot’s Guide to Love should be out before Christmas.)

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This is Amnio. He’s the sweet, if severely radioactive, protagonist of my buddy H. Jonathan Goltz’s upcoming picture book about making friends after the apocalypse. 

I’m illustrating this book along with Lee Blauersouth of studiointerrobang, so you’ll see more of Amnio and his friends around here soon! 

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Playing around with watercolor and ink again. (Available as a print here.)

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Things I doodle at my comic collective meetings: Zombie picture day! (His mom sprung for the laser background.)

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Pointless late night Art Rage doodling because I like pretty colors.

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5 Random Facts About Me

Tagged by samhainpress, who makes book-themed jewelry and accessories that I drool over on a regular basis. 

1. I had a collection of collections as a kid. Rocks, feathers, seashells, floppies full of Dragon Ball Z promotional art, etc. 

2. No matter what else I accomplish, the time I beat Super Mario Bros 2 before my gamer little brother will always be the greatest victory of my life.

3. My current household is my favorite living situation I've ever been in. It includes nine sentient creatures: five adult humans, three cats, and a dog. It's a big house with three stories, and all the humans are introverts, so it doesn't feel crowded. Current status of house dwellers: two housemates at work, one housemate watching prank vids upstairs in his bedroom (I can hear him laughing with the glee of a thousand babies, it has to be prank vids), girlfriend downstairs in the gaming den playing Dragon Age with her dog on her feet, me in the living room with my cat, other two cats doing cat things out of sight. 

4. Sometimes when I think about the ocean too much I start to cry because it's scary.

5. I have a bee tattooed on my right inner forearm. Her name is Posey.

And I'm gonna tag studiointerrobang on this!

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Hey Tumblr, I made another coloring book! 

Mermaids might seem to have it all, with their shiny tails and fancy seashell castles, but life under the sea is full of difficulties.

This coloring book features 20 examples of the most pressing issues mermaids face, including socially inept sea turtles, barnacle breakouts, interpersonal issues with fish, lack of wifi, and more.

Mer World Problems: a coloring book documenting hardships under the sea is available now on Amazon and CreateSpace. To celebrate, have some free coloring pages!

Yay mermaids!

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Preview panel from my comic for the Beyond anthology! 

I'm really proud of how the inks came out in this. Also, I'm in love with these two dorks.

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What am I up to lately? Oh, nothing much, just finishing what might be the most adorable pegging comic EVER. My friend Abby Lark wrote it, I'm doing the art, and it'll be published in Smut Peddler 2014.

If you like lady-centric erotic comics, check out the Smut Peddler Kickstarter and preorder a copy! I've peeked at the other comics in this anthology, and it's gonna be so ridiculously good, you guys, oh my god.

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Inking this comic might kill me. (Page 3)

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Quick hand sketch for the hell of it, no ref.