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   After discovering that the comic genre is far more diverse than I had previously thought, I became particularly interested and inspired by artists who create their own world and include themselves in it (the works of Dame Darcy, Meatcake, and Julie Doucet, Dirty Plotte, are among my favourites).

So I began to illustrate my own adventures, dreams and imaginations. My autobiographical character 'Shat Girl', finds herself living in a sometimes fantastical, sometimes deadly world of black and white. She finds herself the butt of bad intended jokes and feels free to seek revenge, or not. She travels to far and distant lands and encounters new and different cultures, viewing the world with open-eyed wonder.

I have produced two comic books titled Shat Girl 1 and 2 and am currently working on Shat Girl 3 -The Wroclaw Adventures. I have also made a short super 8 film, based on one of my comics, titled Pussy Kills, in which I massacre the innocent people of Hobart accompanied by my friend Batty.

I am from Tasmania. An island south of the mainland of Australia and the end of the world. The forests are dense and silent and the oceans are home to strange creatures which I encounter in both my waking life and in the depths of dreams.

Rachel Wasilejko