Elise Haskell

My name's Elise Haskell, I'm 17, I live in Toronto... I write Jirale, my cat's name is Kaitty.

 K- .......Wow. In depth. o.O;;

Katherine Verhoeven

I have been described as frighteningly perky. I believe it.

(insert evil laughter here)

I live in Canada, and have for all my life, excluding the insane year of 2000-2001. I have an older sister, who is strange, and my best friend.

Not to say that I don’t have other friends. She’s just to weirdest, and thus most nifty.

I am 16, and will be hitting the streets soon…pedestrians beware!! I’d rather be biking though. But I don’t have a bike.

I started Jirale more than a year ago, while I was in Australia, since I’d been getting Elise to send me her stories so I wouldn’t die of boredom (Back then I didn’t over-work myself with web-pages, commissions, and I wasn’t in school). She sent me Jirale, and the first paragraph asked if anyone was willing to illustrate it....

I figured it would be fun if I drew this comic for Elise. I could draw, right?? (Gah, I think back then I was in over my head…if you could see the original pages!! Next time I introduce new characters into the series, Elise gets to see their designs first to clear up any mistakes I make. Actually, on the cover page of the comic –the coloured one- that’s the way Itchtake's hair was for the first two pages, but I had to white out over top of it, ‘cause she had to look like a boy. I knew a bit about making web-pages, so I figured, heck, if I’m gonna do this, might as well make it a web-comic too! I swear, I was in it for recognition only. Now I just do it for fun, getting into the top of every list out there isn’t so important to me.

Jirale itself has become a bit of an obsession. My friends think I’m a bit of a workaholic, and I’m always talking about Jirale- my favourite parts, the parts I hate, maybe getting it published, a picture I have planned…anything. I wonder if they think I’m nuts? For the most part they’ve got no clue what I’m talking about. Mary and I can go on for a long time about it though (Mary is my sister).

Aside from Jirale, some stuff about me:

I love cats. I will grow old to live with hundreds of them. I don’t like dogs much.

I will eat anything, but thank god, have a metabolism to make up for it.

I actually LIKE team sports.

Orange is my favourite colour.

I want to be able to watercolour like CLAMP, CG like the person who does the Gorblimey site, ink like the dude behind ‘Blade of the Immortal’, and create stories to top them all.

I really am a dork. But I think it’s cool.

Am prone to attacks of ditzy-ness. God help me.

I like cheese.

And That Concludes Our Sideshow.