This Party of the Soft Things
Book-length poem and graphite drawings by Nhatt Nichols
I angle home / my neighbors on their porches with wine / my old mailbox / it isn’t a lot / but I already miss it
This Party of the Soft Things can be described as a highly re-readable picture book for adults, with its fifty graphite drawings plotting and expanding upon Nhatt’s poem and the trek underpinning it. The poem pivots between ruminative present-day interludes and accelerations into a distant future in which humans lose their claim to proper nouns (“texas” is just that and no more) as armies of potato bugs, air forces of mosquitos, and navies of sharks ascend.
2021 Bored Wolves
Boats, Bears, and Bad Life Choices
In 2018 graphic journalist Nhatt Nichols hopped on the Race to Alaska media boat and headed north, following one of the most challenging boat races in the world.
This full-color comic documents each day of the 800+ mile engineless boat race through the eyes of a cartoonist who cannot sail, can barely swim, and is, frankly, afraid of the water. Each page is filled with the moments and characters who make the R2AK such an incredibly special race.