Rant Violet

Violet-Louise LaCello was born in the sleepy little village of Queens Village, New York, and made paper dolls and her own personal versions of Seventeen magazine before she grew up to be the famous cartoonist that changed the world with her bodice-ripping stories of passion and vice in Wimmins’ Comix, Twisted Sisters and her cartoon advice column, Ask Aunt Violet. Around 1996 she was plucked from the mass of talented West Coast cartoonists to write scripts and copy for the Web and she has never looked back. Well, no…actually, she has looked back a lot. But it’s all beeen pretty good. These days Violet spends a lot of her time being a comics editor, copywriter and graphic artist. One of her passions is traveling around the world to work with organizations that want to expand their creativity. She is also working on a graphic novel about her mother’s peculiar childhood, tentatively called Miss Internal Revenue. She has two other graphic novels in the works, Ev’ry Month Like a Period, about a completely anonymous long-distance romance gone terribly, terribly wrong, and 1,000 Apartments, about her own peculiar childhood growing up in Bell Park, a wacky, kibbutz-like post-WWII Veteran’s Housing Co-op. You can learn lots more about Violet-Louise by visiting her website, Aunt Violet Productions.