Who Is Dr. NerdLove?*
Dr. NerdLove isn’t very good at writing mini-bios about himself. He’s also not entirely sure about this whole “writing about himself in the third person” thing.
Dr. NerdLove is the not-really-a-secret identity for Harris O’Malley. He is an artist, raconteur, part-time messiah and known man about town. In no particular order, he is an author, photographer, a digital artist and illustrator, a podcaster and the dispenser of valuable love and relationship advice to nerds, geeks and neo-maxie-zoom-dweebies. He was born in ’77, lived most of his life in Texas and got to Austin as soon as was humanly possible; sadly this was after the Liberty Lunch closed down, which means that technically, he is officially Part of the Problem.
Dr. NerdLove got started as part of the League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen as part the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World episode, where he answered fan’s relationship questions. He made a return during the Valentine’s Day 2011 episode, and started the Paging Dr. NerdLove thread to answer questions that nobody had time to respond to during the podcast.
Things, as they say, went out of control from there.
Since then, he has been giving advice to nerds and geeks from his little corner of the Internet, making geeks just a little more sexy and women a little more nerd-curious.
No, no, don’t thank him. It’s all part of the job.
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*Dr. NerdLove is not a real doctor. Then again, neither is Dr. Doom. And nobody questions him.
I will say that after reading several of your articles, I googled you to see what your art work was like, and I was a bit surprised to see how much of it objectified women in the same way you’ve criticized comics for doing so.
There’s a reason why my nom-du-internet-blog is “Doctor” Nerdlove, not “Saint.”
(Doctor NerdLove is not a doctor)
Beyond that I paint (well, painted; I haven’t had time to paint in forever) what I find aesthetically pleasing. I’m a straight male, I like the female form.
The issue I take with comics/games/etc isn’t necessarily the heightened sexuality or objectification per se, it’s that in comics/games/etc that there’s almost nothing else.
Your articles crack me up, and I didn’t think your artwork (which I Googled as Kathy above suggested) was particularly exploitative: I’m an artist and they do have us draw naked people a lot in those art classes. Granted: in a wider variety of sizes and ages, but still…
I don’t mean this in any sort of creepy manner, nor am I looking to start a stalker party ala Beatles Fangirl style of crawling into your room via the air vents…
But I Love You. Because you get it.
And you’re Awesome with this blog–Please. Please, Please. Keep writing, and making Art.
This is an awesome blog, that I got referred to by a nerd-girl (yay!). Anyway, I love the grounded by humor-added way you approach these topics, making them sink in and still have entertainment value.
Especially the footnotes…
Your articles are enlightening and very well spoken. I thank you for taking the time and wish you the best.