Hello there! This webcomic is about being a nerd. Unlike many other comics and webcomics about being a nerd, this is a webcomic about being LGBT nerds, female nerds, nerds of color, disabled nerds, and other kinds of nerds that don’t get as much love. This is a webcomic about being a nerd who’s constantly facing down sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, ableism, fatphobia, and other phobias and -isms from their nerdery of choice. This webcomic was made by a frustrated nerd about frustrated nerds making comics.
The name “Riot Nrrd” comes from “Riot Grrl”, a musical and political movement born in the nineties. I haven’t checked out these sites extensively, but here’s what comes up about Riot Grrl on google just to give you an idea: Wikipedia’s entry on Riot Grrl, the grrl zine network, an article on myths about riot grrl. I’m aware there is also a song called Riot Nrrd, but I never heard of it until a friend pointed it out to me after reading my webcomic, and as far as I can tell, isn’t really connected to riot grrl at all.
To the left you may see an artistic rendering of the creator. They are often called RJ. They like geeking out about anthropology, gender theory and linguistics, as well as more common nerd fare like webcomics, Lost, Marvel, Whedon, and obsolete video game systems. They prefer the pronoun “they”, and they have an English degree to rub in the face of gender-neutral-singular-they nay-sayers. They are ok at drawing, but pretty new at drawing on computers, so the art is likely to be, er, evolving, for a bit. They use a Wacom Bamboo. The first two strips were made in Gimp, but the rest are done in Photoshop. The webcomic updates on Tuesdays and Thursdays right now!
You can contact RJ through twitter or email: rj at riotnrrdcomics dot com.
Oh yeah! And all the characters, art, writing, everything here, you know, belongs to RJ. No stealing ok thanks.
