About

photo thanks to asianschoolboy.com

Aimee Steinberger lives in California with her husband, Mitch and fat black cat, Youta. She grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. Aimee is an alumni of California Institute of the Arts (BFA in Character Animation). She currently works as an animation artist (currently Assistant Director on the new series of Napoleon Dynamite and Futurama!) and previously worked on Sit Down Shut Up, the Simpsons, for Warner Brothers and for Disney. She is an award winning fan costumer. She is writes and illustrates for various Japanese fashion, doll and manga publications. You can find Aimee’s resume here.

Her most recent book is Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan from Go!Comi.

You can find interviews with Aimee on the PRESS page and there is also some Q&A on the formspring page.

• HOBBIES: costuming & sewing, gardening & roses, ball-jointed dolls, kimono
• LOVES: haute couture, Sanrio, Japan, folk-lore, ancient cultures, Bollywood, Jackie Chan movies, takarazuka, karaoke, shojo manga, the ocean, cherry blossoms, the colors pink and blue.
• FAVORITE SHOWS/MOVIES: Doctor Who, Firefly, The Fifth Element, Beauty and the Beast, Iron Man, Elf, Zoolander, Surf’s Up,  Despicable Me, Tangled, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Indiana Jones, (original) Star Wars, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Monster’s Inc, Star Trek, Supernatural, The Secret of NIMH, The Last Unicorn
• FAVORITE ANIME: Jellyfish Princess, Code Geass, Tora Dora, Gurren Lagann, Paradise Kiss, Ouran High School Host Club, Gankutsuou, Sugar Sugar Rune, Rose of Versailles, Utena, Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, anything Miyazaki, Macross Plus
• FAVORITE COMICS/MANGA: Hellboy, Lovely Complex, Mars, Paradise Kiss, Chobits, Peach Girl, Video Girl Ai, Death Note, Vagabond, From Far Away, XXXHoLic, Fruits Basket, Otome Yōkai Zakuro, Kimi wa Petto
• FAVORITE BOOKS: Beauty by Robin Mckinley (and the sequel Rose Daughter), Count of Monte Cristo, Pride and Prejudice.