n i j o m u is the web home of Nick Mullins.
I make comics. You can read some of them on-line. If you’d like to support what I do, you can buy books from me, either print or digital.
Creating and reading comics leads me to thinking about comics. I’ve compiled my writings about making comics on a single page for easy reference. Occasionally, I recommend books that I’ve enjoyed. I’m also starting to recommend on-line comics with the tag the silent kingdom. In the past, I made a series of videos looking at different graphic novels called The Mullins Library.
Because I create comics using traditional tools, I also write about drawing in pen-and-ink. My pages comparing different drawing nibs are consistently the most viewed pages on this site.
In my professional life, I am a teacher. For over twenty years, I have been helping students to write, read, and analyze critically. Currently, I work with college students and with high school students in the TRIO program.
I live with my spouse in California where I train in Aikido and take care of two aging cats and a retired guide dog.
Thanks for visiting.
contact:
nijomucomics@gmail.com
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publications
comics
anthologies, journals, etc.
- “Hands,” Shenandoah, Vol. 73 No. 2, Spring 2024
- “I Took a Gene Test,” The American Bystander #24, December 2022
- “In Water,” Red Fez issue 111, April 2018
- “Icarus,” Nashville Review No.19, Spring 2016
- “Mystery,” Fourteen Hills Vol.22 No.1, January 2016
- “The Planner,” The Comic Eye, December 2007
- “Kit Kaleidoscope and the Mermaid in the Jar,” Modern Tales: Longplay, April 2004
- “Ghosts,” Legal Action Comics 2, September 2003
- “Corn Flakes in the Bedsheets,” True Porn, August 2003
- “Holiday Phone-Call,” Modern Tales: Longplay, June 2003
self-published
- Someone to Watch Over Me, November 2021
- Lounger, October 2021
- The Lost Cause of Poetry, April 2019
- This Wasn’t the Plan, November 2018
- Sink, September 2017
- Carnivale: a Kit Kaleidoscope Story, 1st ed: March 2014; 2nd ed: September 2017
- Defrost, July 2012
- Holiday Funeral, 1st ed: December 2006; 2nd ed: February 2008; 3rd ed: February 2012
- Kit Kaleidoscope, 1st ed: April 2005; 2nd ed: October 2010
- Litmus Test 1-13, from October 1996 to February 2004
- Jack Face, July 1996
writings
- “Panther by Brecht Evens,” Drawn and Quarterly, May 20, 2016
podcasts
- Everything’s Relative with Eve Sturges, March 3, 2023
honors and awards
- featured artist for the 53rd International Visual Literacy Association Conference, August 10-12, 2022
press
- “All the Time in the World – Except When There Isn’t: The Comics of Nick Mullins,” Ryan Carey, Canon #2, Fall 2023
- “Books in Bites 22: The Return of Books in Bites,” Daniel Elkin, Solrad, June 29, 2022
- “Recent Reads: Lounger by Nick Mullins,” Colin Blanchette, February 3, 2022
- “‘This Wasn’t the Plan’ Reflects on Stagnation,” Mae Trumata, A Place to Hang Your Cape, January 19, 2022
- “Mullins, Nick – Lounger,” Optical Sloth, December 9, 2021
- “In Review- ‘Defrost’ from Nick Mullins,” Tony Ez Esmond, Never Iron Anything!, April 30, 2019
- “Review of This Wasn’t The Plan,” Peter Dabbene, Foreword Reviews, Nov/Dec 2018
- “Defrost Review,” Ashley Victoria Robinson, Major Spoilers, March 21, 2015
- “What We’re Reading: Carnivale,” Aaron King, Hazel & Wren, September 4, 2014
- “The Best of ComiXology Submit,” Jason Tabrys, February 25, 2014
- “Integrating Text and Images in Comics,” Grant C Thomas, Comix Talk, September 30, 2007
- “Super Stud… er, I Mean, Super Spy,” Brett Warnock, Top Shelf Comix, May 18 2007
- “…Home Again,” Brett Warnock, Top Shelf Comix, April 26, 2007
- ComixTalk End of 2007 Roundtable, Brigid Alverson, et al., Comix Talk, December 17, 2007
- “Yes, it looks just like her,” Peter H., MetaFilter, December 9, 2005