NICOLE MILES
illustrator + cartoonist + hand-letterer + designer
Hello! I'm Nicole. I'm from The Bahamas, but I'm currently living in West Yorkshire (UK) with my pet snake and human boyfriend. After five and a half years of designing cards for Hallmark UK, I jumped into full-time freelance life in January of 2020. I've worked with a variety of clients including
Adobe,
Buzzfeed,
Candlewick Press,
Google,
the New York Times,
Penguin Random House,
Rebel Girls,
Simon & Schuster, and
Sisters Letter (AARP). My comic
Barbara (
ShortBox, 2017) was nominated for an Eisner award.
I've been asked to speak to BA Hons Illustration students at Cardiff Metropolitan University (several times) as well as at the Afro Futures Un-conference (2019) in Birmingham. In 2018, I became a Special Visiting Lecturer for Sheffield Hallam University where I get great pleasure in doing occasional teaching sessions with first year illustration students.
My favourite form of procrasti-working is always some sort of creation whether it be bettering my hand-lettering, making animated gifs, chronicling silly life moments or informative sustainability tips in comic form, experimenting with film photography or sewing new garments for myself. But I also dedicate a lot of time to improving my second language (French), reading and, recently, going on forest walks.
Represented for book projects by
The CAT Agency.
For all other enquiries:
hello@nicolemillo.com
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