This article is about the adult fiction webcomic. For the song by English new wave band B-Movie, see Nowhere Girl (song). For the neologism, see Nowhere girls.
Nowhere Girl is an adult fiction webcomic by Justine Shaw,[1] about a "college student who feels like an outsider in her own life, finding her place in the world and coming to terms with her sexuality".[2] It is named after a song written by British futurist band B-Movie. Since its start in 2001, Nowhere Girl has won several awards. However, the comic has been retired in 2010.[3]
The comic was originally planned to be in five parts, but only two of them have been completed thus far; plans to complete the comic have been shelved by the author, according to her website.[3]
The Village Voice has described the webcomic as "a graphic novel that appeals to the clove-smoking, Nick Drake-loving art student in all of us."[4] In 2003, Nowhere Girl received a nomination for an Eisner award in the "best new series" category, making it the first nomination of a Web comic. Shaw was nominated for "talent deserving of wider recognition".[5] Also in 2003, Nowhere Girl was nominated for several categories in the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards, eventually winning "Outstanding Comic", "Outstanding Website Design", "Outstanding Dramatic Comic" and "Outstanding Reality Comic".[6]Scott McCloud stated that Nowhere Girl was important because the design of its pages worked well on the web, making the long-form webcomic more approachable.[7]
References
^Brownstein, Charles (January 2002). "Tape This to Your Cubicle Wall". The Comics Journal, No. 240. p. 56