Frederick Noland

Frederick Noland lives in Oakland, California. His specialty is visual storytelling, whether in animation, comics or illustration. Noland’s comics have appeared in the New Yorker and his illustrations have appeared in SF Weekly, Nickelodeon, XboX Magazine, and more. In the year 2000 he was awarded a Xeric Grant for his one-man anthology Shpilkes. He is the author of Major Taylor, a biographical comic about the first Black World Champion in road cycling, who became one of the first international sports stars. Noland is an avid but unremarkable cyclist.