About the Artist

Erica Reis is a sequential artist and illustrator hailing from Austin,
Texas. Always knowing she would find a career as an artist, she graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006 with a degree in Sequential Art, and amazingly was already working in the professional field before graduation.

Her first book which she both wrote and drew, a manga entitled SEA PRINCESS AZURI published by Tokyopop Inc., came out in that same year. It is the story of a killer whale mermaid princess unlike any mermaid princess you've ever seen, set in a rich underwater world created entirely by Erica. The dangers and pressures Princess Azuri undergoes are great, as she must decide what is the right thing to do to save her kingdom in the face of confusing love. Volume 2 is scheduled
to be released in October of 2007.

Erica lives and breathes her life as an artist, and is at heart a storyteller who swoons for other wordly tales of true love. Her art thrives on juxtaposing the unexpected, creating something new and beautiful
simply for the reason that she's never seen anything like it before.

Visit Erica Reis at www.sugarpencil.com