My Life in the Comics: Thirty Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama

Nicole Hollander's cartoon strip Sylvia appears in over 30 newspapers. She has published sixteen collections of Sylvia strips; two books, Female Problems and My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big Boned, as well as a collection of essays, Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial. Her comic strip and books were the inspiration for three plays, all of them musicals. Her most recent collection is The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama. Hollander earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston University.