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Nicholas Friesen is a cartoonist from Winnipeg, MB. His work is predominantly hand drawn and digitally coloured, but he also works with watercolour, gouache, pencil crayon, textiles, and marker.

His comic work includes the multimedia Olivia Sea project (consisting of music, animation, collector cards, comics, graphic novels, and more), the painted comic …with silver sunshine stares, editing and contributing to multiple anthologies, the Ineccentric mini comic series, and more. Friesen’s comics are published by Lesser Known Comics (US) and Inservice (Canada).

His visuals have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Uptown, The Uniter, and Stylus. They have also been projected onto the sides of buildings during the Juno Awards and on IMAX screens. He has created hand drawn animated music videos for Polaris Music Prize nominee Greg Macpherson, The Sorels, Sierra Noble, Sprig, Mise en Scene, Ace Burpee, Olivia Sea, and more.