Natalie Port, 20, hails from a small town in Michigan, but goes to college in Grand Rapids. She enjoys drawing, (duh) Japanese, tinkering with computers, and...food. She is Italian, so it comes naturally. *smirk* In her spare time, she plays scads and loads of Nintendo (probably too much...), enjoys Dance Dance Revolution, and of course draws this comic. She also is working on several other comic projects that haven't been published in any way, such as Intervention, Project Valkyrie (a joint effort with Shay Caron), 1-Up, I See Dutch People (Don't ask.), and another one that doesn't have a name yet. In short, she's bonkers.

About the Comic

The above picture was drawn in 1999 -- four years ago, now. The product of not paying attention in Physics class, I suppose...but this comic is even older than that. The Mariposa Revelation began as a birthday present for my best friend at the time, Hillaire, in 1997. Slowly I began to incorporate more of my best friends...Patrick, Cynthia...and the Mariposa Revelation was born. I was 14. I had at first meant for it to be a short comic, but before I knew it, I was a senior with a finished 500-page comic book I kept in a big black binder and carried about wherever I went. The year I started highschool, I flipped fondly through the story again and decided it was incomplete. Certain things didn't make sense and the story didn't connect. Of course, I had written the entire thing idea by idea, so it wasn't that surprising -- but I decided to redraw it, using the original as an outline. Hooray!