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 WGBH (remote), as a color artist with Ashley Robin Franklin and Clarion (under HarperCollins), and as a flat colorist on a project with RH Graphic.
Whittle has worked as a flatter and colorist for
Scholastic Graphix (Making Friends 3 & 4)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Wow In The World: Wow In The Wild)
Dark Horse (Minecraft: Wither Without You 2 & 3),
and for Caytlin Vilbrandt on her webcomic Tamberlane.
They also work as a Producer at indie animation studio The Sunflower Club.
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 WGBH (remote), as a color artist with Ashley Robin Franklin and Clarion (under HarperCollins), and as a flat colorist on a project with RH Graphic.
Whittle has worked as a flatter and colorist for
Scholastic Graphix (Making Friends 3 & 4)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Wow In The World: Wow In The Wild)
Dark Horse (Minecraft: Wither Without You 2 & 3),
and for Caytlin Vilbrandt on her webcomic Tamberlane.
They also work as a Producer at indie animation studio The Sunflower Club.
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 :]
