L. Nichols is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer, sign painter, educator, and sometime blacksmith. L.’s work has appeared in the Village Voice, Gilt Taste, the Atlantic, the Zinester’s Guide to NYC, SMITH Magazine, the Nib, and the anthologies ‘QU33R’ and ‘We’re Still Here’, amongst others. He is the co-publisher of the award-nominated comics quarterly, ‘Ley Lines’. His graphic novel ‘Flocks’ was released September 2018 to critical acclaim and is his memoir of growing up queer/trans in the evangelical rural south. Drawing upon his MIT engineering experience, he frequently utilizes the language of science, math, and engineering as a metaphor in his work.