Appearances & Interviews

I love doing panels and/or workshops on animation, cartooning and costuming!

I’m a published illustrator and author and have worked in animation for over 9 years. I’m also an award winning costumer for over 10 years. I really enjoy sharing my joy, experiences and knowledge with others. I’m very happy to come out for conventions, libraries and schools who are able to bring me out as a guest.

I’m happy to do panels and events related to the following:

Animation Process Panels – I’ve worked on several different animation productions in various positions from layout and animation, to storyboarding and assistant directing. I can give advice, demonstrations and show behind-the-scenes drawings on how the animation process works.
Japan Ai Panels – with drawings and stories about the book and talking about how the book was created.
Signings – I can bring prints and/or books for signing at your convention/event. I also do sketches along with the signings.
Costuming Tutorial Panels – I especially enjoy doing tutorial panels or workshops for both beginners and more advanced costumers. Some topics include costuming construction, resin casting and wig styling (including outlandish wigs). including wig and resin work).
Judging Costume Contests – I’ve been costuming for over 10 years, made over 50 costumes and have won about 17 costuming awards.
Attending in Costume – I can attend your event in various costumes.
Costuming Exhibit – I can bring my elaborate costumes to your event for display on event-provided mannequins.

If you are interested in having me attend your event, please email me with the details. I live in Southern California, but I’m willing to travel, schedule permitting. For conventions that are not close to me, I require travel and hotel expenses. OR email your local event and suggest they bring me out.

INTERVIEWS

– You can find some of the interviews I’ve done on my press page. I’m very happy to answer questions for publication regarding my work, my books, animation, hobbies or costuming. Again, I also keep high resolution files of most of my artwork and photographs that I can make available for your publication.

I don’t always have time to answer questions for student projects, though. Thankyou for your understanding.

You can watch me drawing on this video from Matzley.