Loving Football When It Doesn't Love You Back

Combining dark humor with incisive visuals, Shields is as bald with her awkward personal anecdotes as she is with the sport she loves. From a comic rewrite of referee signaling to a harrowing list of NFL assault cases, the result is an unprecedented interrogation of football and fandom.

Natalie Shields is a Seattle-raised book artist and daughter of bestselling author David Shields. She is a NYC-based graduate of RISD, a member of design collective Henry Blank, and a designer at Doubleday & Cartwright. Her book Love, Floppy Disks, & Other Things the Internet Killed received the RISD thesis award.