by Alex Dueben: Camilla d’Errico: Femina and Fauna

I ADORE HER.

Met her at Emerald City last year, knew nothing about her but LOVED her art.

She did some sketches for my kids, I bought some of her books and fell in love.

One of the most cool, down to earth people you'll meet.

Great heart, great art, love it. Thanks for just, you know, being you Camilla

This interview with d'Errico-sensei is so perfectly on time for me I can't even tell you. And I'm really sort of freaked out that some of her most significant influences are the same as mine. The first comic book I picked up to follow was 'Witchblade' from whence I was very quickly absorbed into 'the Darkness'. Heck, I think I'm still in love with Jackie to this day, and will probably never get over the giggles from when one of the darklings sang to a seriously deserving bad guy: "I've got me under your skin..." Also just Ashley Wood and Popbot --man, I've got the damn statuette of Popbot and Kitty; and I too, believe Grant Morrison to be a god. For that matter I think he thinks so as well and rightly so.

This is not speaking as a collector, but as a copain in the avenues and quarks of imagination in sort of shared consciousness no matter how you care to project it. I mean no matter what as a writer/artist, et al you're going to individuate the expression, it's just wild to find out someone you dig and respect comes from some of the same places as yourself. Oh, wait. I just came off as a total fan girl. lol. I am sooo busted.