VANESA RODRIGUEZ DEL REY was born a communist in La Habana, Cuba. When she wasn't sewing for her dolls or directing theatrical plays she was drawing, a skill she learned from her grandmother. Centuries later she arrived in Miami on a plane. There she studied the local language (spanglish) and tasted her first cheese burger. The rest, as they say, is history, and after blowing people's socks off for three years at the Clown School she got bored and decided to graduate. This of course was not before she had fallen in love with comics, and been propelled into a thrillingly wonderful new world full of knives, spandex and expletive barking aliens. She is now an illustrator on the Moon.