Nicky is a disabled, queer Puerto Rican comic artist, flatter, and colorist. She is the creator of the ongoing webcomic, The Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere, and the illustrator of the award-winning Con Papá/With Papá, authored by Frederick Luis Aldama. Starting with autobio zines that explored mental health, the impermanence of time and memory, existential ennui, and the meaning of home, Nicky continues to explore these themes in her fiction comics. She is currently focused on her graphic novel endeavors in addition to creating new zines. Nicky specializes in expressive colors, the depiction of heartfelt emotions, and animated and expressive characters in her work and is primarily interested in illustrating upper YA and adult graphic novels and comics.
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Things she'd love to work/collaborate on: slice-of-life, road stories, existential horror, Puerto Rican and Caribbean stories, queer stories (preferably not didactic), a Love Island type comic (maybe with a horror twist!)
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โโCon Papá / With Papá *Honorable Mention for the Alma Flor Ada Best Latino Focused Children's Picture Book Award from the International Latino Book Awards*
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Labyrinths Borneโ
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Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Approaches
"Nicky Rodriguez’s illustrations are vibrant and whimsical."
"Beautifully illustrated." - ILBA judges
"A lovely bilingual picture book about the support of a father and how this endless support helps a child gain confidence to soar."
"...In these vivid, lush images, we witness a father’s love fostering a child’s infinite imagination to soar...Con Papá treasures and celebrates young Latinxs, the queer, the maligned, the forgotten, and erased." - Cristina Herrera for Latinx spaces