nicole marie burton is a comic artist and children's book illustrator living in Ottawa, Ontario. Her published works include The Boy Who Walked Backwards, The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet, Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire, and Coal Mountain, part of the comics anthology Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle. She is a founding member of the Ad Astra Comix publishing collective.