{"id":21076,"date":"2025-05-12T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/?post_type=story&p=21076"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:57:15","slug":"believe-it-or-nat","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/12\/believe-it-or-nat\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe it or Nat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Cartoonist and New York Times<\/em>-bestselling author Maria Scrivan \u201993 draws on Clark inspiration for her most memorable character<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Story from Clark University Magazine<\/a><\/em>, spring\/summer 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m Natalie, and I am not an athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So begins Nat a Chance<\/em>, a just-released graphic novel by Maria Scrivan \u201993. Nat\u2019s middle school best friend is athletic, though, and wants Nat to join her in training for a triathlon. Impossible, Nat thinks\u2014or is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrivan knows what it\u2019s like to be recruited into an unfamiliar sport. When she arrived on the Clark campus in the fall of 1989, she and her new friends attended the annual student activities fair. Her roommate and another friend signed up for the crew team and encouraged Maria to do the same. She hesitated, but ultimately joined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was a complete klutz,\u201d Scrivan recalls with a laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As proof, she recounts an early morning crew practice on Lake Quinsigamond. While rowing with her team, her oar got caught in the water (\u201ccatching the crab,\u201d in rowing parlance). Instead of letting go, she hung on to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe next thing I knew, I was in the water with a bunch of oars coming toward my head,\u201d she says. Someone yelled at her to duck, and her coach pulled her out of the freezing lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my klutzy claim to fame on the crew team,\u201d she says. \u201cAt least it\u2019s a good story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s not the end of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite her initial doubts, she loved the experience of rowing with the Clark team.
\u201cI didn\u2019t think I was an athlete, but being on the crew team made me realize that I am. We would do hill repeats on Airport Drive in Worcester and stair repeats in Jonas Clark Hall. And when I started, I thought it was all impossible. But I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that vein, her book \u201cis about the stories we tell ourselves about our limitations, and what happens when we challenge them. What if the stories you\u2019ve been carrying with you aren\u2019t true?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scrivan didn\u2019t plan to become an author when she graduated from Clark with a bachelor\u2019s in fine arts, but she did know that from a young age she had wanted to be a cartoonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I was a kid, I loved the Garfield<\/em> books,\u201d she says. \u201cI read them all. And not only did I read them, I studied them.\u201d She drew the characters and dreamed of having her own comic appear in the newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maria Scrivan in her Connecticut studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

After Clark, Scrivan worked in a small animation studio and then as a graphic designer at a dot-com agency. The internet age was just beginning, and the agency was developing the concept of putting ad banners on web pages. \u201cWe told JCPenney they really should put their URL on their printed material,\u201d she says, but in the mid-1990s, there was skepticism about whether anyone would ever buy anything online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was an intense, amazing environment. I did that for a year and realized I couldn\u2019t work in an office.\u201d So, she started her own graphic and web design business, taking on corporate clients and creating greeting cards using her cartooning skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy turning point was in 2008\u2014I decided I couldn\u2019t not<\/em> be a cartoonist,\u201d she says. \u201cMy graphic design client list got smaller and my cartooning client list got bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She kept drawing, and kept submitting her work to comic strip syndicates. In 2013, cartoonist Hilary Price\u2014creator of the syndicated Rhymes with Orange<\/em> comic\u2014 turned over her strip to five guest cartoonists, and Scrivan was one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy local papers picked it up. They called and asked if I wanted to be in the paper seven days a week,\u201d Scrivan recalls. \u201cI said, \u2018Let me think about it\u2014\u2018Yes.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMy 8-year-old brain blew up when I saw my comic in the funny pages for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That was the start of Half Full<\/em>, a daily comic that would eventually be syndicated nationwide. Offering a humorous perspective on the joys and frustrations of everyday life, it ran in newspapers for 10 years (it\u2019s now published online, with new comics three days a week). Many of the single-panel comics have been turned into greeting cards as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy 8-year-old brain blew up when I saw my comic in the funny pages for the first time,\u201d she says. And as a member of the National Cartoonists Society, she met Jim Davis\u2014the creator of Garfield<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was on a panel with him. He\u2019s been incredibly helpful as a mentor and he even wrote a blurb for one of my books. It\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publishing a daily comic was a \u201ccreative boot camp,\u201d Scrivan says, since she was required to have at least six weeks of comics completed at a time. \u201cBut the material is endless. It\u2019s forced me to look at life through the lens of humor, whether it\u2019s dealing with the self-checkout machine or waiting at the DMV. The most personal situations are universally relatable\u2014they resonate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nat a Chance<\/em> is the sixth in Scrivan\u2019s series of graphic novels about middle-schooler Nat, but it\u2019s not the first to take inspiration from her own childhood experiences (although she does sometimes exaggerate them for comic effect).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While producing her Half Full<\/em> comics, she also started writing on the side. \u201cI created silly vignettes of childhood\u2014middle- and elementary-school stories. I thought I would write something in prose, with spot illustrations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The covers of Maria Scrivan’s Nat books give a sense of the character’s journey through her young life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At a conference, she attended a talk by a graphic novelist, and she realized that was the perfect format for her. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a visual learner and communicator. Comics are the perfect way for me to tell a story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrivan came up with the idea for the first book, Nat Enough<\/em>, in 2018. Natalie doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s \u201cenough\u201d\u2014whether it\u2019s talent, athleticism, or style\u2014and then loses her best friend because she\u2019s not \u201ccool enough.\u201d Throughout the book, Nat learns to believe that she\u2019s more than enough, just the way she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had no idea this would turn into a series,\u201d Scrivan says. \u201cI had one book idea, but I initially got a two-book contract.\u201d (Several publishers actually bid on the book, but Scrivan had decided long before that if she were to write a book, Scholastic would publish it\u2014 and they did.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI called up one of my friends and said, \u2018I have no idea what I\u2019m doing,\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cHe said, \u2018No one does.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nat Enough<\/em> was published on April 7, 2020\u2014as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting everything down. \u201cI worked my whole life for this, and my debut book came out when no one knew what was going to happen,\u201d Scrivan says. \u201cPeople said, \u2018Well, everyone is home reading,\u2019 but they didn\u2019t know who I was yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They quickly found out. Despite bookstores being closed and Scholastic book fairs temporarily discontinued, Nat Enough<\/em> managed to land on The New York Times<\/em> bestseller list for three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrivan\u2019s second book, Forget Me Nat<\/em>, was published five months later, based on another relatable situation from the author\u2019s life: asking your crush to the school dance and being rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late childhood, when we are still unformed and unsteady as people, is her constant source of inspiration. \u201cI got dumped by a best friend. I got bullied. Friendships changing, feeling you don\u2019t fit in\u2014those are evergreen feelings, especially for middle schoolers. It\u2019s not funny at the time, but I wrap humor around it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrivan often visits schools and libraries to talk about her books, always encouraging kids to share their feelings. \u201cAt that age, they\u2019re sure that they are the only person on the planet who has ever felt the way they do,\u201d she says. \u201cI love going on these visits and listening to what they have to say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of her fourth book, Nat For Nothing<\/em>, is self-doubt. The selection of that topic became something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. \u201cI had the hardest time with that book,\u201d she says. \u201cI inked the entire 235-page book then threw it out and did it again. I included an author\u2019s note about how I will always have feelings of self-doubt, but that I\u2019ve learned how to push them away. It\u2019s very easy for those voices to get in our heads and completely stop us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It takes Scrivan about a year to complete a book from concept to publication. She always carries a sketchbook with her, drawing or scribbling notes while waiting for an appointment, or recording ideas onto her phone while walking in the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWriting books is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without all the pieces, or a road trip where I know where I\u2019m trying to end up, but don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to see along the way,\u201d Scrivan says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when she gets stuck, she keeps moving forward with something, even just a menial ask\u2014a trick she learned from a professor when she studied abroad in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSometimes it\u2019s going for a run, but sometimes it\u2019s cleaning my sock drawer or gardening,\u201d she says. The point is to keep moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another professor told her that being stuck on a project is a combination of a fear of failure and a fear of success. \u201cThat stayed with me, and helped me open my mind to trying different ways of working.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her Clark experience helped prepare her for the pressure of meeting deadlines and publishing her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of my professors did not consider cartooning to be fine art,\u201d she continues. But one day, her assignment was to bring an object to class. \u201cI was running out, and there was a hammer near the door, so I grabbed it. Little did I know that we would be drawing our objects for the entire semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI drew the hammer big. I drew the hammer small. I painted the hammer. I did a collage with it. And I eventually turned it into cartoon characters\u2014three-dimensional characters made from foam. The hammer was flying a kite, going to the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That project helped her get to the essence of why she loved cartooning. \u201cIt was creating characters, setting scenes. And that\u2019s what I do now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scrivan, who, like Nat, worked to overcome her own insecurities to find the best way forward, long ago let go of \u201cklutz\u201d as a self-description. Today she professes a love of exercise and has even competed in two Ironman triathlons. But it\u2019s that Clark crew experience, she insists, that lit the fuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo much of my creativity is grounded in running and riding my bike, and it\u2019s all because the crew team brought me out of my comfort zone,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you surround yourself with a community of people doing seemingly impossible things, you realize that what is possible for them could be possible for you. And once you achieve one \u2018impossible thing,\u2019 that opens the door for anything to be possible. That happened to me at Clark.\u201d \u25a1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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