Natalie F. Johnson, aka Nat4k, is a self-taught art hobbyist from the Willamette Valley, and has lived in Oregon all her life. Natalie began developing the story and characters of NOTA since her senior year of high school. She graduated from Lane Community College with an associate degree in Drafting Technology and studying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Oregon State University.

 

She learned her basic comic making skills at a youth summer class at Maude Kern's Art Center many years ago. Her art is inspired by multiple '90s anime and Madonna's Immaculate Collection videos she watched on her VCR/DVD player as a kid.

 

She is a huge fan of Shounen-ai, Shoujo, military fiction, and horror games from the early '90s and 2000s. In fact, the story you are about to read was originally envisioned to be a computer game. A homage to the classic "point-and-click" adventure games. 

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When she isn't working on NOTA; she is enjoying a snack, being outdoors, playing Dance Dance Revolution, or watching her favorite films (likely starring Tom Cruise).