Comics

• phan thog mi 'dug (2007)
  A soliloquy in Tibetan that I drew mostly in Lhasa. The Tibetan is a non-standard verse format (four syllables per line as opposed to the usual seven or eleven) and uses language that is more colloquial than literary. For those of you that do not read Tibetan, I have made an English translation called "Of No Use."
  
  
• A Short Fable About Loss (2007)
  A fable in the style of a children's story drawn in Lhasa.
  
  
• Who You Are (2007)
  Another short comic soliloquy that I drew in Lhasa.
  
  
• Shuriken Jive : Nic & the Ninja (2006)
  Comics of Nic's real conversations with an imaginary ninja.
  
  
• rtsa thang gi dpa' bo (Hero of the Grassland) (2006)
  My comic version of a Tibetan fable about an arrogant beetle and a sarcastic ant.
  
  
• Vanity Comics : Comics By Nic About Nic (2005)
  A bunch of comics I drew starring myself.
  
  
• What Am I Doing Here? (2005)
  A short comic soliloquy that I drew in Lhasa when I was trying to adjust to being alone more than I ever had. I never actually finished it because I did end up adjusting to the solitude and I stopped feeling so depressed.
  
  
• Out of Print (2005)
  Follow Ray as he tries to cope with the day to day realities of working at an independent record store. My first attepmt at brush and india ink.
  
  
• Books : Love / Hate (2004)
  Drawings done on philosophy texts that I did while working nights alone in the Tanner Philosophy Library at the University of Michigan. These drawings were printed along with the poems My Life and the University.

Random Drawings

• Random Drawings #3 (2005-2006)
  Drawings done during my final year at University of Michigan and my first year at Tibet University. Includes the cover of a Nerd Mix that I made, airplane napkins, a Buttercup Festival tribute, a coaster commemorating my last exam, a Tibetan homework freakout, and shots at Ayn Rand, Paul Grice, and Peter Singer.
  
  
• Random Drawings #2 (2003-2004)
  Drawings done mainly in class during the 2003-2004 school year. Highlights include some watercolors done with a children's paint set and some ink drawings done on an old grocery bag influenced by the Chinese painter Tai Chin. Also, two paintings of the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi which represent a famous passage from the end of chapter two of the Zhuangzi in which he dreams that he is a butterfly and awakes to wonder if is it he that dreamt the butterfly or the butterfly that dreams him.
  
  
• Random Drawings #1 (2002-2003)
  Drawings done mainly in cass during the 2002-2003 school year. Highlights include a pair of notebook backs done in blue bic pen. One was done during senior year of highschool and one during freshman year of college and a series of robots done after listening to the Flaming Lips' album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and seeing Garry Kasparov play a computer in chess (it ended up as a draw).
  
  




All content by Nic Bommarito.