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About the Artist

Peggy with glowing stars!
mz. urnash, january, 2007

I was born and raised in New Orleans, a place I'm still somewhat allergic to.

I grew up absorbed in books, especially science fiction and fantasy. And cartoons. And videogames and computers, once they came along. And, of course, drawing.

My life was rather monotonous.

College involved an attempt at a computer science degree that went nowhere. The month I turned 25, I moved to California to attend animation school.

Life continued to be somewhat unexciting. Even when I ended up living my dream of working at Spümcø and learning from the master cartoonists there.

In 2002, after several years of blurring gender online, I finally came out to myself as a male-to-female transsexual. Acknowledging that fact, and dealing with it, has made me a much happier person.

Later, I moved to Sunnyvale. A year later, I moved back to New Orleans... three days before Hurricane Katrina hit the place.

I live in Boston now. Occasionally things are exciting. And life is almost never monotonous any more.

Shockingly enough, "Egypt Urnash" bears no resemblance to the name I was born with, nor to the one I sign on checks. The latter? Margaret Trauth.

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Margaret Trauth

I have nearly a decade of animation experience, primarily in Flash animation for the web and television. I can provide traditional 2D animation, interactive pieces, and still imagery and design.

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