— Name: Dani Russo

— Nickname: Dani-kitty

— Age: 23

— DOB: 01/03/82

— Star Sign:  Capricorn

— Location:  Queens, NYC

— Colour(s):  Pink & Purple (duh!)

— Hogwarts House:  

— Fav. Band(s): Blur, Pulp, MSP, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, NIN, Rialto, Ocean Colour Scene, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Dar Williams, Guster, Tegan & Sarah, Bitch & Animal, Stone Temple Pilots, Sound Garden, Ash, Sloan, Hefner, The White Stripes, The Pilfers, The Might Might Bosstones, The Ataris, Reel Big Fish, Edna's Goldfish, Atari Teenage Riot, Gorillaz, Maddonna, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Morrisey, etc...

— Song of the Moment: "Feel good Inc." -- Gorillaz

— Book of the Moment: King Rat -- China Mievelle

— Movie of the Moment: Star Wars: Episode III

— Fav. Superhero: Batman

— Comic of the Moment: Love & Rockets Volume 2

— Once more, with feeling...

Uhm. I guess that stuff up there is an indication of the basics. Right? Well, in case you're terribly curious... I'm a Cartooning / Illustration major at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan -- though I've hopefully escaped the pseudio bohemian rich brat syndrome that plagues 95% of the student body. This isn't to say I'm not a brat; I'm an only child so that just comes with the territory. I have dreams of doing character design and concept work for animation and film, and telling sweeping many-genre'd fantasy epics. Yeah, I'm a real big dork.

I live somewhere in the vast exapanse of Queens with my ma, a 25 lb. cat appropriately named Bitty, an empty Betta Bowl, transitory goldfish and a lovely view of the J train.

I draw cute / weird things, obsess over comics, collect kitschy junk, and read more bad sci-fi and fantasy novels than a sane person should. I flit in and out of fandoms like a perpetual tourist. I'm the "resident loon" over at Artvark. I'm an on-again-off-again costume maker. I have the most wonderfultastic friends ever. And I hate giant robots (though an exception has been made for the Megas.)