About + Contact
Nakata "Knack" Whittle is a sequential artist (storyboards, comics, writing) based out of northern Maryland. They enjoy urban fantasy and sci-fi stories with queer themes, unique world-building, complicated interpersonal relationships, and found family.
Currently, they are working with 2Gen Labs out of Boston's GBH. Whittle is also working on various short web-animation pilots including as the Lead Background Designer on the Sunflower Club's The Figment.
Whittle has worked as a flatter and colorist for Scholastic Graphix, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Dark Horse, and for Caytlin Vilbrandt on her webcomic Tamberlane.
As part of the SVA Cartooning Class of 2021, Whittle received the 2020 Will Eisner Sequential Art Scholarship, the highest awarded to the Cartooning Major. They also received the Rhodes Family Award upon graduation.
Currently, they are working with 2Gen Labs out of Boston's GBH. Whittle is also working on various short web-animation pilots including as the Lead Background Designer on the Sunflower Club's The Figment.
Whittle has worked as a flatter and colorist for Scholastic Graphix, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Dark Horse, and for Caytlin Vilbrandt on her webcomic Tamberlane.
As part of the SVA Cartooning Class of 2021, Whittle received the 2020 Will Eisner Sequential Art Scholarship, the highest awarded to the Cartooning Major. They also received the Rhodes Family Award upon graduation.
You can contact them for work at nakatadraws@gmail.com
You can also find them on twitter (@whittledraws) or on instagram (@whittledraws)
PSA: Knack's given first name Nakata is a combination of Nancy and Kate, and is pronounced to rhyme with "cicada." Being referred to as either Nakata or Knack is fine :]
You can also find them on twitter (@whittledraws) or on instagram (@whittledraws)
PSA: Knack's given first name Nakata is a combination of Nancy and Kate, and is pronounced to rhyme with "cicada." Being referred to as either Nakata or Knack is fine :]
