Puerto Rican Cartoonists - Vanesa Littlecrow, Jos Vega Santana, Ricardo Lvarez-Riv N, John Rivas, Carmelo Filardi (Paperback)

Chapters: Vanesa Littlecrow, Jos Vega Santana, Ricardo lvarez-Riv n, John Rivas, Carmelo Filardi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vanesa "Vas" Littlecrow (born Vanesa Colon Ortiz on November 8, 1973) is a multifaceted Puerto Rican who is a cartoonist, dancer, writer and a model. She is also the founder of VAS Littlecrow, a multidisciplinary arts firm based in Minnesota. Littlecrow was born in R o Piedras, Puerto Rico. At a young age, Littlecrow was diagnosed with autism due to difficulty talking and expressing emotions. Despite this fact, she was already drawing at age one. Although it was recommended that Vanesa be interned in a special institution for mentally ill children, her mother was against the idea and did not. Believing that Littlecrow had the potential to achieve great things with her innate talent, she became instrumental in the development of her daughter's artistic skills. Littlecrow designed a poster for the Barrio Obrero marathon while still in grade school, which led to a short appearance in WKAQ-TV. As a fan of TV star Iris Chac n, the experience of being on television would be very influential to her. She received an honorable mention in the Puerto Rican newspaper The San Juan Star for some of her Christmas drawings. While still attending school, she also found time take dance lessons in ballet, tap dance, jazz, Polynesian, flamenco, and traditional Puerto Rican folk dance. She also participated in juvenile modeling, including a school beauty peagant where she won first place in her age category. By age nine, Littlecrow began work on her first novel in what would later become the Soup Wars Project. In 1985, Littlecrow moved to West Valley City in Utah with her mother and younger brother. She became a member of the school's ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=992595