Natalie Nourigat is an American cartoonist from Portland, Oregon. She began making comics at age 14 when a friend loaned her a manga collection after karate class. For someone who already liked drawing and writing, comics felt like the perfect marriage of these things. Natalie studied Japanese and business in college, thinking comics would only ever amount to a hobby, but a few months before graduation Lerner Publishing Group asked her to illustrate a graphic novel. Natalie has been making comics ever since, with great companies like Marvel, Image Comics, Oni Press, Dark Horse, and BOOM! Studios. Never shaking her love for languages and travel, Natalie began studying French after college and lived abroad in Annecy and Paris in 2013-2014.