// All About Me//
Clearly, the best way to let you know about me is in
survey form.
Maybe I've taken one too many My Space quizzes?
Full name:
Cara Mia DiCostanzo
Age:
20
Birthday:
April 1st
(i'm not kidding)
Zodiacs:
Aries (April), Tiger (1986)
Hair:
Dark Brown
Eyes:
Hazel-green
Height:
5'2 (sooo short!)
Sex:
Female, duh
Romantic Status:
Taaaaken ^_~
Location:
Milford,
Delaware
Childhood home:
Lancaster,
Pennsylvania
Occupation:
College sophomore at University of Delaware
Major:
Anthropology
Dream job:
Local archaeologist digger.. person.
Pets:
7 cats (Tigger,
Artemis, Miko, Dagger, Aurora, Patches)
1 dog (Odie), 1 guinea pig (Gypsy), 1
box turtle (Turtle), 1 hermit crab
Hobbies:
Reading
comics, novels, and manga
Drawing, watching anime and Adult Swim
Playing
Roleplaying games like D&D and various Whitewolf system
stuff
Listening to music, singing, doing Dagorhir and going to Dag
campouts,
Cosplaying, messing around with Photoshop, working on
website stuff
Drawing
comics and just drawing in general
Ultimate Favorite Game:
Final Fantasy
7... of course!
Other Favorite Games:
FF6, FF10,
King of Fighters, Dragon Quest 8, Katamari Damacy,
Kingdom Hearts,
Favorite Movie:
Goodfellas, The Godfather, Princess
Bride, LORT, The Matrix (only the 1st)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding, High Fidelity, Garden State, Oh
Brother Where Art
Thou, Pulp Fiction, Mallrats, Clerks, Kill Bill, Jay and
Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma
Favorite Anime:
Anything by
Miyazaki, Akira, Hellsing, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo
and
Evangelion
Favorite Comics:
(Print, american) X-men, Spiderman,
Gambit spinoff
(Print, manga) Love Hina, Paradise Kiss, MARS, Ai Yori Aoshi,
Sensual Phrase
Neighborhood Story, Azumanga Daioh, Celestial Legend Ceres,
Chobits
(Online) Red String, VG Cats, Penny Arcade, Devil's Panties,
30 Extra Lives
Preferred system:
Play Station
2...
X-box makes me sad because the controler is too big for my
hands =/
Favorite Music:
Tori Amos, Metallica, Nirvana, Lisa Loeb, Jewel, Innocence
Mission, Incubus,
Shakira, Less Than Jake, Cake, Frank Sinatra, Dido, No Doubt,
Daft Punk
{Basically... alternative, folksy, heavy metal, rock, 50's,
and some techno}
A Word About Myself and my
Comic
I've been
involved with comics my entire life, since my father is also
an avid fan, reading mostly Spiderman and X-men... but it
was only recently that I decided that I wanted to actually
make a comic myself. Given, this is more of a manga-style
comic, but it's the same idea. I started writing the story
that is Trial of Ages in 11th grade for a project in English
but decided to keep working on it even after the project was
complete. I wrote several chapters of novel-story but
eventually became too busy with other things to continue
writing for some time. So Trial of Ages sat, stagnant
on my computer for a few years.
I picked up
writing again over the summer before my Sophomore year of
college and about half way through the year decided - after
reading many online comics - that a comic might be the best
outlet for my story, instead of a novel. Because let's face
it folks, I'm sorta lazy. I love writing, but eventually I
get tired of having to verbally describe what I'm seeing in
my head. So I thought to myself - I love drawing too. Why
don't I make this story into a comic? So that's the jist of
it.
Now aside from
comic things, I'm also very into cosplaying... You can find
my pictures at Cosplay.com (search for 'Karmalucre'). I have
several costumes, but I mostly focus on Aeris Gainsborough
and Tifa Lockheart from Final Fantasy 7. Cosplaying
attracted my interest simply because I love sewing and
dressing up. Besides, you get to portray your favorite
characters. I am a stickler for appearance, though. I'll
only dress as characters who I actually look like. =P
Beyond that, I
am... in fact... a huge dork. GASP! Big surprise there, neh?
I spend a good deal of time fiddling around with my
computer, playing video games and various other nerdy stuff.
And of course I draw, sketch, and doodle whenever I can. I
am generally a good student - though what a 'good student'
is after high school becomes different. How about I WAS a
good student? And then I came to college and made friends
with similar interests as me. ^_~ No matter.
I am happily
taken by and very much in love with my wonderful boyfriend,
Dan. We met in Japanese class, and he's a history major. I'd
say we sync up pretty well because we share most of our
interests. Our one year anniversary will be June 17th. Yay!
<3 Come next fall, we're going to start working on another
comic based off of an idea of his. It'll be called Paladin.
When it gets started, you should read that too.
When it comes
to matters of the spirit and what not, I just call myself
pagan. My immediate family isn't particularly religious (moreso
philosophical) and my extended family is Catholic... but I
feel that putting that title upon myself is too restrictive.
I love and respect nature and prefer to go about finding
divinity my own way. But don't worry, I'm not one of those
silly Wiccan kids who just want to piss off their parents.
^_^ I can't take those kids seriously.
In the future,
once I get out of college I hope to settle down somewhere in
the tri-state area (MD, DE, PA) and get some sort of local
dig-site archaeology job... and of course I'll keep working
on my comics. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll eventually be able to
bring my comic to more people either by getting it onto
Keenspot or my own site I pay to have hosted. Though, even
if I had my own site, I'd still list on a place that people
check out so I didn't get overlooked. o_o()
I figure I can
only get better at drawing the more I practice, so I hope to
pleasantly surprise readers of my comic in the future.

© 2006 Cara DiCostanzo
Trial of Ages is hosted on
Keenspace,
a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.
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