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***SPECIAL NOTICE!*** This MySpace page is only here because... well, because it's still here. I NEVER use MySpace. Please e-mail - I WILL NOT get your MySpace message!
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I'm a cartoonist living and working in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, living my childhood dream. I've wanted to be a cartoonist since I was 8, and have been working towards it ever since. It's like the normal kid's equivalent to becoming an astronaut or something.
I was born in San Jose, California and raised in Ijamsville, MD, but West Virginia has truly become my home. I LOVE traveling. I live for long road trips and plane rides. Airports never cease to get my heart pumping. While I've enjoyed every trip to Europe, I adore discovering North America.
I'm big on camping, hiking, and walking, but rarely get to do the first two. I spend a lot of time walking around in my little town.
I graduated Shepherd College with a BFA in photography, but photography has been downgraded to a hobby (weddings sucked all the fun out of the profession). When I'm not working, I'm probably sewing something, attempting to get back into painting, trying to keep my plants from dying (so far, so good), or cooking. I have Celiac Disease (gluten intolerance), so I'm on the wheat-, barley-, and rye-free diet.
I'll never turn down a bottle Woodchuck Cider or Honest Tea. Despite what you'd probably think after reading
my comics, I'm actually not a complete and total lush, but I love my bar unconditionally. I'll drink just about anything that's pink. Sex on the Beach is my fave.
What else? I tend to be either really shy or really damn talkative (could you tell?). I have the memory of a goldfish. I also HAVE a goldfish. Her name is Goldie. She's enormous and will never die. I've recently invited two kittens named Smudge and Ellie to live with me. In February we're moving into a great big house with a great big yard.
I aspire to write films one day, though in the short-term, I just aspire to write. I'm finally working on my first graphic novel, though the research is taking longer than expected. I have to learn how to play violin and become a candy-striper at a hospital first.
There's a lot of indie in my life. Indie films, indie rock, indie comics. I'm picky about films, but when it comes to music, I just like anything original with a pulse. I listen to everything from classic and indie rock to industrial and bluegrass.
I'm pretty easy to figure out & I'm an awful liar. Also, yes, I talk this much in person. I love writing about myself. Surveys make me smile. My New Year's resolution for 2008 is to "do everything with love." It's a lot harder than it sounds.
If you'd like to see more of what I do, visit the Girls With Slingshots website or my under-construction portfolio site.
PS. RIP, Weekly World News! Yes, it's true, the world's most reliable news source has gone kaput. I used to draw The New Adventures of Bat Boy for this rag; look for compilations later this year!
(Props to nUCLEArcENTURy.COM for making my page not suck.)
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