1993:
First sequential comic drawn - this was when I discovered manga

1995:
First self-published comic book produced

1999:
Completed Art Foundation Course

2001:
Completed BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Arts (concentrating on Illustration and Animation)

2001:
Began to help work towards creating Sweatdrop community.

Biography:

Date of Birth: Twenty-blaargh!

Location: In a shiny, rainbow place...

Gender: Female

Blood Type: Type O pos

I started drawing my own manga-styled comics at the age of 14 after admiring videogame booklets and reading early translated manga. I then decided that I enjoyed doing this very much and a good few years later found a bunch of likeminded people who liked to do that too. Thus Sweatdrop was born! And very happy I am too, within this productive little circle. I have some great mates in this circle. Yay!

Since graduation I have spent my free time drawing more comics than ever before. My illustrations have been published in various national UK magazines such as Shout and Just 17 and also for the Emotional Rescue greetings card range. You can see my art, paintings, illustration work and various nonsense within these webpages.

UK manga titles I have created include my Biomecha series, Boiled Spoons, Reluctant Soldier Princess Nami and all of the Sweatdrop anthologies to date. Since 1995 I have also had illustrations included in numerous UK anime fanzines - sadly none of which are actually in print any more, but are listed on my website. I was an avid reader of the UK Super Nintendo magazine Super Play; I used to contribute a lot of Envelope Art - luckily for me, a lot of which got printed!

In 2004 I lived in Japan for 9 months, teaching the English language to Japanese students of all ages, from 2yrs 9 months up to little old ladies! This was tough work, but I miss the friends I made, the mad shops and the food very, very much. I'd love to go back on holiday there in the near future...

Loves:
My Nintendo DS, my dayjob, my chums, spamming about on the Internet, posting on forums, going shopping in Camden, eating Japanese food, pink girly stuff, 80's stuff, multiplayer gaming..!

Hates:
The Gym, parsnips, puzzles, R&B, being embarrassed..!

Interests:
Ai Yazawa, Animation, Anime, Bemani, Biomecha, Capcom, Catgirls, Chobits, Chocolate, CLAMP, Comics, Corsets, Copic Markers, Crafts, Cup Noodle, Daft Punk, Decadence, Depeche Mode, Digital Manga, Drawing, Duran Duran, Ebay, Elegant Gothic Lolita, Electronica, Famicom, Fischerspooner, Game remixes, Gamiko, Gaming, Gokinjou Monogatari, Green Day, Harajuku style, Hello Kitty, Hexstatic, Illustration, Imonster, Japan, Jewellery, Junko Mizuno, Kaiser Chiefs, Kappa Ebisen, Kawaii, Kogals, Konami, Ladytron, Licca-chan, Maison Ikkoku, Manga, Megas XLR, Mitsukazu Mihara, MTV2, MTV Downtown, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nintendo, Old Skool, Painting, Paradise Kiss, Peach Girl, Pucca, Rock/Metal/Techno, Sailor Moon, Sashimi, Shoes, Shojo manga, Super Nintendo, Sushi, Sweatdrop, Takkyu Ishino, Tramps Like Us/Kimi Wa Petto, The Killers, Tokyo, Urusei Yatsura, Victorian Style, Wasabi, Watercolour painting, Yukimi Daifuku…. Too many things to list!

Favourite Artists:
I like traditional artwork, including the works of Alphonse Mucha, plus most things in an Art Deco or Art Nouveau style, like Lalique glass sculpture. Very crisp, solid images and extremely detailed. I adore contemporary art and illustration. Artists I particularly like include Mark Ryden, Coop, Junko Mizuno and Ai Yazawa artworks because they are bold, colourful, stylistically innovative and original.

Favourite Literature:
FRUITS, anything by Taschen: Coop: The Devil's Advocate, Nocturnal, Narita Inspected, Juxtaposed mag…

Favourite Films:
My top five! - Donnie Darko, Secretary, Moulin Rouge, Edward Scissorhands, Mystery Men, Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Favourite Music:
Para Para, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Everclear, Muse, Pitchshifter, Rob Zombie, Daft Punk, Hikaru Utada, Dubstar… most things really… although recently my guilty aural secret is grimy techno and cheesy old skool rave!