Where were you born? Where did you grow up?
 I was born in Brasília, Brazilian capital. I lived one year in Natal and later I returned to the center-west. Today I live in an interior city, close to my home town.

Schooling? Art training?
  Everything that I learned was fruit of observation and training. Now I participate of many movies workshops (script, argument and direction) and of picture or any other workshop that is interesting

How long have you been working professionally in comics?
 one year, more or less

What things -- both in art and otherwise -- have you worked on besides comics? Are comics a full-time gig for you or part-time?
 I always had total dedication to the drawing, but now I'm also working in a comic shop on Saturdays. That is good, is good to have contact with the public for who I work and I'm liking that a lot, it's as a complemental part for my writer and drawer work. now I'm developing stamps for shirts for the same comic shop where I work.
Talk about how you broke into the business --was it easy? Hard? Ups? Downs? Any interesting anecdotes? When you held your first published work in your hands, how did you feel?
When you are being recognized as a person that works and for that it should receive, you feel much more motivated. My first employment got alone, I found a recruitment and I went there. They accepted me and in fact, my boss was very gentile with me, occurring me well a work in agreement with which I was able to at that time. The period was pressed, I had to do the scratches for her to approve and the final art and to apply the tones a week in 5 pages. But I got without at least putting back a period, and that left me happy because I saw that am capable to accomplish with a commitment and to motivate me.
 
Did you work as an assistant to any other artists? If so, please talk a bit about those experiences.

How did your parents take to the idea of working in comics?
 
I think like most they preferred that I had me interested for medicine, law or public functionalism. But I cannot complain so much. My mother always think cool I to have something that knew do and liked. But a lot of times I had problems for they understand not that the problems of being a designer are the same ones of any one that works: sometimes you are working, sometimes not. Sincerely I don't see great difference among the professions in that sense, but the sensation of stability (that I call "comfortable-tedium") that all so much one likes, seems to do the people a few neurotic in getting it. 

How would you describe your workspace? Is it part of your home,
or do you go "to the studio"?
 Actually, I have a bed in my studio... heh... my room is my world since I cannot have a studio. I admit that I would like my bed to seduce me less, for that it's good that it's in your hidden and obscure place! But I would like to move of my house for going to the some place, I always take advantage of those spaces of time of displacement for to think and to see other things.

What job are you the proudest of? What's your most embarrassing?
 

What are you currently drawing? Comments on that project?
 

Talk about your family: Parents, siblings, home situation. Are you married? Have kids? Names? Anecdotes about married life, how it relates to your busy schedule, etc. If you have kids do they understand your job? What do they say about it? Do they read comics?
 In general I have a good family, they are good and they help me a lot. I'm the oldest granddaughter and I have an adolescent brother (that some times it's advantageous, in subject of human behavior studies, heh) and recently I won a sister. I live with my grandparents and my brother, and I don't intend to marry nor similar for the time being. I think that men need a lot of attention and I'm disperses about that (and I don't know reason, but I think they seem not to like of me). Interesting that the people with whom I link (friends and family) like the area that I work. my grandmother always read those Disney comics, and when I was child I had signature of "Turma da Mônica", my brother loves videogame and rpg and he also makes your scribbles and my mother and father knew how to draw... in some way, my atmosphere was always favorable to the drawing.

What projects do you hope to work on in the future?
 I really have interest in getting to do some cool scripts, but mainly about to I draw, I really want to make works different, experimental, freer. I think those the best ones. I think I also want to try to do animation one day, nor that is alone for test... I also Have a great will of working with characters' conception, I'm really impassioned by creating visual of people.  

Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years?
 hum, don't like a lot to think in those things, I prefer to do year plans in year. Five years ahead? it's a lot! I don't make idea... 

What is the interest in comics where you live? Do friends and neighbors know you draw comics for a living? How do they react?
Do all think very curious, but a lot of times they asked me "and then, what do you do?" and me "I make comics" and do they speak to me; "ok, but with what do you work?"... unhappily nor everybody take seriously, neh? heh... I don't still sustain myself with that, the one that does feel me half incompetent the times... but it's ok, it's ok... I'm still in time and it is never known what comes thereabout...

What's 1 thing you'll always find in your refrigerator?
 oh... water

What's your favorite food?
 ahh, several things, but I have favorite: plaid chicken, ice cream, meat (I loooooooooove barbecue) and potato. potato of any way; brags, roasted, purée... 

What are your favorite interests --Movies? Music? TV? Any hobbies? Sports?
 
all this I LOVE. music is something that I don't understand very well, but I know that don't get to be alone a second without hearing something. I was part of a choral in adolescence.
movies are so much other thing that I love, that began to do movies workshops and I don't stop doing never, always to doing, whenever I can I help some friends in independent small projects. I have a great will of doing a film or animation at least in the life, some short and very free thing. I want to learn more about movies.
I like fashion too. Sometimes I draw some clothes and now I began to work making stamps for shirts. I usually customize my shoes and clothes. I love urban fashion and especially the Japanese urban fashion
For killing the time I play videogame sometimes. I always played fight games, especially of SNK, I was addicted in King Of Fighters (I made fanzine even!)... but that at that time that I had Neo-geo CD, the only console that had (ahn, I also had one game boy of the first generation). Now I see the others playing and I think it cool. I like to watch my friends playing videogame. Sometimes I go to my Friend's house and I play with her Splinter Cell, or Need for Speed Underground! and of course, I'm a maniac that whenever I can play rpg!
But about physical activities... am I terrible, did I already begin to do dance classes so many times some and does it never end... but do I think if I had more time and disposition I would return to walk to of skates and perhaps, (who knows?) I didn't take a risk to try some parkour maneuvers? but now I walk very easily with laziness of hurting me...

Have you ever thought of writing your own stories?
that is almost only thing that I'm thinking. I have some thousands of histories kept here with me. Some know that don't have other future I know that has but it's always necessary correction. But yes, I do have a lot of will of that, I think I don't like to be always reading on the same character, taste of seeing new things, new people, new places and the times I feel lack of that for consuming.
 
Ever been in a gang?
 

What's an average day in your life like? Walk us through a typical day.
 every day is watched by my computer from where I don't go out, practically. Always writing or drawing something.
In my days of rest (happy rest days) I usually play rpg with my friends. I think now that is everybody grown, it's a good opportunity for to join and to talk and to do some thing together.


Do you have any great, unsold projects in your files that nobody's gotten to see published?
 
If you weren't a comic-book artist today, what would you be?
I would be frustrated. heh heh... hum, but I think if I don't be a designer I would have been a teacher, probably of art. 
 
Have you taught comic-book art or had any assistants? If so, talk about that.
 

The single thing you'd most like to be remembered for in your life is...?
 somebody that did what liked and got to live like this.

Any closing words for your fans?

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