🍁 Northern Expat
Your profile as a live comic strip, after J-F's comics about a Canadian in the Netherlands. You're at the window of a Dutch street and every day brings a new scene: a dog on its round, a car tooting by, a bike, a boat on the canal. It follows the time of day and the season, and the lights come on after dark. Below it, hand-inked panels, speech bubbles, caption boxes and footnotes.



A closer look
The top of your profile is a live comic panel: a Dutch street with canal houses, seen from your window, with a caption box (Friday afternoon...) and speech bubbles. A dog does his round, cars and bikes pass by, and the scene follows the time of day and the season. Below it, your bio is a speech bubble in an About me panel, your stats are coloured boxes, Journey covers are framed like comic panels with caption tabs, and the page ends with To be continued...
Made for
- Comic artists and storytellers
- Expats and travellers
- Anyone with a story to draw
It goes everywhere you go
A theme isn't just your profile background. Your Journeys show up in the Northern Expat style in other people's Feed and in Explore too, so everything you post carries your look.
Tips for your photos
Northern Expat suits stories told in parts: a move abroad, a renovation, learning a language, a comic you're drawing. Post one moment per Chapter and the Journey reads like a comic strip. Illustrations, sketches and bright everyday photos look great in the inked frames.
How to use it
- Open your profileTap Profile in the tab bar.
- Tap the palette iconAt the top of your profile, next to edit and settings.
- Pick Northern ExpatFind it in the Store. Get it on its own, or with NovaPod Pro, which includes every premium theme.
Northern Expat is one of 22+ themes on NovaPod, and a new one drops every Friday at 17:00 (Amsterdam time).
Make it yours
NovaPod is free on iPhone. Start a Journey, post Chapter 1, and give your profile a look that's really you.
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