Elizabeth at the Huntington!
Elizabeth Watasin is a longtime Traditional Animation Artist, Comic Book Writer, Illustrator, Creator, and now Author of the young adult novel, WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS.
She worked on thirteen Walt Disney Feature Animation films, including such children’s favorites as Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, and Princess and The Frog.
Elizabeth also created the indy small press favorite The Adventures of A-Girl!, was a regular contributor to the groundbreaking girls comics anthology, Action Girl Comics, and, as reviewer Dirk Deppey described in Comics Journal’s JOURNALISTA!, “soon came to prominence as the creator of the cult-favorite Slave Labor series Charm School“.
Currently Elizabeth is writing the second novel following WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS, is exploring even more story content for readers at neverwasonline.com, and is keenly eying such storytelling mediums as motion design and narrative design. She welcomes her readers to join her in these nifty new things.
Elizabeth is a member in good standing of Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE, Freelancers Union, Greater Los Angeles Writers Society, and Society of Children’s Book Writers And Illustrators.
She lives in Los Angeles in a tree house with her black cat Draw.
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Portfolios are at: Carbonmade and Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Screen credits at: IMDb
Thanks for looking,
~Elizabeth, 2010
"Watasin simply introduces her characters and tells her story, and the readers love it on its own terms. She's not the first artist to do such a thing -- Los Bros. Hernandez are certainly pioneers in this regard -- but she's currently the standard-bearer, and rightly so." -Dirk Deppey COMICS JOURNAL JOURNALISTA! "But there's more; her drawing has a wonderful and expressive range-- now cartoony, now lively and human, now impressionistic and experimental. And the writing similarly ranges from comic to indignant, from Pogo-poetic to pathos." -Bob's Comics Review Elizabeth's work has always been cool. She has what I like to call, "an honest line". In short, the line weights and energy in the art is captured cleanly and effectively. -Jimmie Robinson, Creator, BOMB QUEEN
