Nathan Holic

Author: nholic

  • alt.punk

    Today, I’m proud to share the short comic adaptation I created for Lavinia Ludlow’s claustrophobic, germophobic, punk rock wannabe-turned-insider odyssey alt.punk. I haven’t written much about alt.punk here on this blog, not because I’ve got nothing to say about it, but because I was the book’s editor and didn’t really feel it was appropriate for…

  • The Bee-Loud Glade: comic adaptation

    Labor Day Weekend is upon us, and I haven’t posted on my blog in awhile. To all of my hard-core fans (Mom, I’m speaking to you), I apologize. I know, I know. Everyone is waiting for a new Diet Coke Chronicles, and everyone is waiting for the next Epic Eminem Analysis, and everyone is waiting…

  • The Epic Eminem Analysis: Part IV

    The Eminem Show: An Introduction I wasn’t alive back in the 1960s or 1970s, so I have no idea what sort of excitement was generated by the release of a new Beatles album or by the next Led Zeppelin record. Everyone has seen clips of The Ed Sullivan Show, of fans lined up on dirty…

  • The Diet Coke Chronicles: Chick Flicks

    There are some things no man would ever do willingly (or, rather, there are some things that no man would ever admit to doing willingly), and in the past few weeks these sorts of things have come to define my life. For instance, my wife Heather suggested that we hit up the local mutliplex and…

  • The Hang-Over Part II

    Here’s my new rule about comedy sequels: if at least 1/3 of the jokes are references to the original film, then there’s no real reason to see the sequel. This was the case with Meet the Fockers and American Pie 2, two movies that tried to duplicate the original films to such a degree that–when…

  • Daddy’s – Lindsay Hunter

    I’ve meant to write about Lindsay Hunter’s Daddy‘s for awhile, and for a lot of different reasons. First and foremost, of course, I went to grad school with Lindsay (for about a year, I think) and I was excited to see that–after she relocated from Orlando to Chicago–she’d made a name for herself with a…

  • 15 Views of Orlando

    Over at the Burrow Press blog, we have officially launched the “15 Views of Orlando” project, a collaboration between fifteen different Orlando authors which will provide a multi-faceted characterization of a city that we all—as residents, past and present—know has a lot of character, but which is too often acknowledged in the same bland and…

  • Writing Updates

    A couple quick updates on my writing life: My novel, Status Updates From the Traveling Role Model, was long-listed at Black Lawrence Press for their annual Big Moose Prize. Doesn’t count as publication, obviously, but it’s great to see–upon my first real submission–that I’m not completely crazy for dedicating so much of my life to…

  • The 9/11 Report

    The 9/11 Report: Graphic Adaptation is a fascinating read, I think, both for what it does well, and for its negatives implications. What does it do well? I think that it proves that graphic novels can tackle nearly any subject, and that the mixed-media approach of art and text can be extremely useful in distilling…

  • Midnight Meat Train

    Even though Midnight Meat Train sounds like a really terrible porno, I was able to convince my wife that it was acceptable for me to rent because Bradley Cooper is the star. Granted, she still wouldn’t watch it with me, but I just want to go on record by saying this, first and foremost: God…