sé que sigo y sigo porque sigo
    y canto porque canto y porque canto.

    I know I go on because I go on
    and I sing because I sing and because I sing.

    -from Plenos Poderes (Fully Empowered), by Pablo Neruda

 

 

 

Allie Kleber

in a nutshell.  (Well, roughly.  It'd be hard to find a nut with a shell that's really big enough--her head, perhaps.)  She's a 23-year-old sequential art enthusiast (that means comics, natch, we won't be trying to avoid that term) and amateur creator.  She grew up in the cozy Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts, spending the most recent ten years of her life in Northampton (aptly nicknamed both "Paradise City" and "Lesbianville, USA").  In Spring 2006 she graduated from Smith College, ready to discover exactly what, in fact, you can do with a B.A. in English (having also minored in Religion and Biblical Literature).  The previous summer, she interned at the fantastic Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont.  She also spent a semester studying at King's College London.

Allie enjoys watching geeky science fiction and fantasy movies, singing and dancing to David Bowie (sometimes in public), mercilessly editing her friends' written work (upon request), and learning about early and medieval theology and the history of religion.  She is also ecstatic at finally having the freedom to choose her own reading material.

Allie's work has been available on the internet long enough for her to be a little embarrassed about some of it, if proud of her progress.  She will have a short piece published in the upcoming Friends of Lulu anthology, The Girls' Guide To Guy's Stuff (due in summer 2007); she also draws Anathema, an online comic book which should soon be rescued from its infrequent update schedule.  She hopes one day to publish her own comic pieces and perhaps novels on a variety of subjects and within several genres.  Comic books being her ruling passion, she has every intention of devoting a large portion of her life and attention to them.

For more of Allie, you could always visit her (almost completely uncensored) online journal, or alternatively, her sketchblog.  She can also be reached at allison.kleber@gmail.com.