Nicole Georges (with Ellen Forney) Emotional Support Animals Book Event

Join us for an interview, conversation, and art activity with cartoonist Nicole J. Georges, debuting her new book “Emotional Support Animals”, with local cartoonist and friend Ellen Forney. Thursday, May 7th, 7:00 – 8:30 PM, FREE, co-sponsored by Short Run Comix Festival 



More about the book: 

Emotional Support Animals is a collection of comics and worksheets featuring adorable and irresistible emotional support animals offering words of compassion and wisdom, delivering smiles along with experience, strength, and hope. Using quirky animals as her subjects, she proves that hard truths are easier to digest in an adorable package.

Nicole Georges

Nicole J. Georges is an award-winning graphic novelist, podcaster & professor from Portland, OR. She is the author of the graphic memoirs Calling Dr. Laura, and Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home. Her podcast with Oregon Public Broadcasting, Relative Fiction, won an Edward R. Murrow Award. Nicole has been drawing emotional support animal illustrations and leading comics-based self-care and grief workshops worldwide since 2020. https://nicolejgeorges.com/