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Melaina was born and raised in Bowie, Maryland, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay area for the last 10 years. Melaina has been painting, drawing and telling stories from the time she was old enough to pick up a crayon. She began self-publishing comics at 7 years old and won her an award for her first self-published comic in the second grade.
Although her artistic inspirations ranged from drawing, painting, sculpture, blogging, writing & publishing short story zines, making clothes, and knitting over the next several years, in 2004, Melaina's dear friend MariNaomi invited her to paint at MariNaomi's studio. Given Melaina's joy of painting and her compulsion to write short stories and self-publish them in zines, MariNaomi talked her into trying her hand at comics.
Melaina's comics are autobiographical.
Given her day-job profession, working with people who are dying, this
subject-matter appears relatively frequently in her work. She has always
had a leaning towards the morbid, laying in bed, contemplating the existence
of ghosts for hours during her childhood. Melaina's mother had a seemingly
psychic connection with the other side and would awake in a panic from
dreams that predicted family members' deaths. Her mother's premonitions
may have contributed to Melaina's growing fascination with that final
stage of life.
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