Nina Paley
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Nina Paley (2006)
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May 3, 1968 Urbana, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, penciller, cartoonist, animator |
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Notable works
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Nina's Adventures, Sita Sings the Blues |
Nina Paley (born May 3, 1968) is an American cartoonist, animator and free culture activist.
She directed the animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues. She was the artist and often the writer of comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, but most of her recent work has been in animation.
Paley was born in Urbana,Illinois, the daughter of Jean (Passovoy) and Hiram Paley. Her family was Jewish. Her father was a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois and was mayor of Urbana, where they resided, for a term in the early 1970s.
She attended local elementary and high schools, illustrating a "History of the North Pole" comic in collaboration with University High School history teacher Chris Butler, and attended the University of Illinois, studying art for two years.
Her first animation was made when she was 13; it was recorded on Super-8 reels. Her first animation as an adult was the short story Follow your Bliss. Her second clay animation, I Heart My Cat, was shot on a Krasnogorsk camera. These two, along with Cancer, were found on VHS with the description "NINA PALEY DEMO REEL 1998". In 2012, Paley decided to publish them under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
In 1988, Paley moved to Santa Cruz, California, and began to write and draw the strip Nina's Adventures. In 1991, she moved to San Francisco. In 1995, she began to draw the more mainstream Fluff, a comic strip about a cat, which enjoyed a modest success in syndication. In 1998, she also began to experiment with animation.
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