basics~~
Kata: My best friend Marcie came up with the nickname "Kataliana" when we were in 9th grade... which became Kata... that was probably 1998 or 99. So the name just stuck! :3 I love it, its the best nickname ever! It's also my super hero name from the SDFA~!
bday: May 26, 1984 (I'm 19) ~~ send fanart!!
where: I live in Maryland, USA :3
more art: girlPSYCHO ~~ my art page, that i finally started updating again! deviantART ~~ it's updated pretty frequently, check it out for AG and other art!

favorites~~
music: Sublime, 311, The Jam, Lucky Boys, Gorillaz, The Flaming Lips, The Smiths, Incubus, Le Tigre, Bright Eyes, Common Rider, Frank Sinatra, The Sounds, Morning Musume, w-inds., Black Eyed Peas
anime (current): Naruto, Fruits Basket, Karekano, Shaman King, Inuyasha, Tokyo Mew Mew, RahXephon, Wolf's Rain, Pretear
anime (all-time): Bishoujo Senshi Sera Muun, Ranma 1/2, Fushigi Yuugi, Shin Seiki Evangelion, Ah! Megami-sama, X/1999
manga: Hot Gimmick, Parfait Tic, Naruto, Peach Girl, Blue Monday, Scooter Girl
movies: Harry Potter, Some Like it Hot, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Chicago, Kill Bill, Say Anything, Dogma
video games: Super Smash Brothers Melee, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy series, Dance Dance Revolution, UNiSON, Bust-A-Groove, Mario Kart DD, Drakengard

influences~~
mangaka: Rumiko Takakashi, Miwa Ueda, CLAMP, Naoko Takeuchi, Hajime Kanzaka
characters:: Belldandy (Ah! Megami-sama), Ranma Saotome (Ranma 1/2), Usagi Tsukino (BSSM), Momo Adachi (Peach Girl), Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye), Amelie (Amelie)

AG's history~~
I started drawing manga style in 1998, after I got over my obsession of tracing Sailor Moon manga. I started to develop my own characters. In no way shape or form was Ashley my first creation, and in fact, I never thought she'd be taken anywhere. I started drawing a nameless girl with a badass attitude in 2000, and decided she'd only be known as the Altar Girl. I even had a poem written out next to her, something about "...beware the eyes of the Altar Girl". She always looked upset or evil however I drew her. Then, I started drawing two twin angel sisters, and decided to incorporate them in together. They protected Ashley. Then I wanted her to have someone to have a crush on her, or for her to crush on, and Seth was created. He started out as like some dude from Heaven who worked there, and wore suspenders... I just loved his suspenders. <3 Sera and Cherry worked for him, I think that was my original plan. Cherry though was un-named for a long time. So as more characteristic people entered Ashley's unwritten life, she started to get cuter and nicer. And then she had a school uniform, copied off of characters from another story I had "made up" before (aka Sarasota's school uniform). People like Adam and Emi didn't come into my mind until I was actually starting to do the comic on Keenspace, when I realized I needed much more plot. Noah was totally thought up in the middle of everything, when I realized there were only two guys and they were both waaay too nice. Seth's character actually started out as being perverted!!! Can you imagine?!! So now, Ashley was in love with Mr. Popular Adam, so I decided to make Seth come from the past, and he would be in love with Alice, who's whereabouts are unknown! St. Tail, their school, is what connects everyone together.

Oh, and on the topic of "Saint Tail". Well I named the school St. Tail because I thought it would be funny to name a Catholic school after an anime, because it's what I worship :P And Seth is not supposed to be Asuka Jr. I didn't even start reading St. Tail until right around the time I was going to make this comic on Keenspace, and I created Seth and his sexy suspenders back in 2000. Of course, St. Tail was around then probably, but I just didn't know of it yet. Oh well. I think AG is similar to Inuyasha X_X