I experienced my first graphic novel in 1987, and was mesmerized by the hybrid blend of solid literature and sequential art. Yes, sequential art, as I instinctively new that it was not an extended comic book. After 10 years of following it’s evolution into “genre” status, I was ready to start my collector-to-creator transition. As a medium, I have embraced this genre as an infinite canvas, where I get to be a videographer to prose, lend voice to stereotype-busting narratives, a spoken word artist who can create concealed and exposed worlds and culminate all the skills leveraged from my professional career. From this career, few notable accomplishments include being awarded the 5th Annual Women of Color in Technology Award-2001, 2003 Founding Faculty Member of Oakland School for the Arts, created the OSA Comix Workshop that produced 2 Student Comic book Anthologies. As a first, my proposed graphic novel presents a semi-autobiographical hero’s journey of a black abandoned kid who came from horrific circumstances in Washington, D.C. Survives and tenaciously makes her through the competitive design industry of NYC, and then lands in the bubble of the alien environment of Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom and bust years.
