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Monica Knighton - Born March 2, 1973 - U.S.A.
- The Tarot of the Dead is a full color 78 card Tarot Deck inspired by Dias de los
Muertos, Days of the Dead.
- Born March 2, 1973, Monica Knighton is a Pisces, as is readily evident by the large fin-shaped birthmarks on her back. While recent DNA testing has shown that she is mostly composed of sugar and spice and everything nice, large traces of snips and snails and puppy dog tails were also detected, which may or may not account for her penchant for boxer shorts and Conan the Barbarian movies.
- She is also an artist, writer, illustrator and metalsmith whose work draws from her fascination with
folklore, mythology, horror, film and stand-up
comedy. Her first book, The Magician's Cat, earned a scholarship from the Hubbard Foundation's "Written and Illustrated By..." competition, and was inspired by her own cat, "Fart Face". As a graduate survivor of Southwest Texas State University, her college study focused primarily on painting and found object collage. Her work has been exhibited at the Dallas Fantasy Fair, ArmadilloCon, the High Life Cafe, Spiderhouse, Alternate Currents Artspace, Gallery Lombardi, and also on the back of the Austin Chronicle, cocktail napkins, and numerous spare refrigerators across the country.
- Monica has held a variety of jobs. She has worked as a flea market fortune teller, a vintage clothing merchant and as a non-union movie extra. Someday she hopes to fullfill her acting dream and appear on film as a zombie orbloated corpse.
- During high school and college, Monica supplimented her education by doing volunteer work for many worthy and edifying causes, such as the ACLU, the SPCA, the Austin Film Society, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- In 1990, Monica began a metal work apprenticeship under cowboy
artist, Jerry McCoy; whom she describes as a cross between P.T. Barnum and Tim Allen. Today she is an accomplished
metalsmith, and has worked in design, fabrication and casting of both
gold and silver. Her jewelry work is featured at McCoy Jewelcraft in Austin. She is currently pestering Jerry to teach her bronze sculpture casting.
- In her spare time, she enjoys going to see local bands, doing volunteer work for the Central Texas SPCA, swing dancing, reading comic books (as well as those big books without pictures), and watching movies until her eyes bleed. Her turn ons include the work of people with Tom in their name, such as: Tom Robbins, Tom Stoppard,Lily Tomlin, Tom Savini and Tommy Smothers. She is also a crappy cook and hates writing about herself in the third person.
- Live and work in U.S.A.
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