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I met Tory at one of the Networking Dinners in June and immediately was impressed with her talent and all she has accomplished in her first 22 years of life.  She is full of creative ideas and pushes the envelope on how she can make money and show off her art.  I think you will also be impressed. 

At age 22, Tory Novikova has graduated in May 2010 from Pratt Institute’s school of Art and Design. There she studied a mixture of illustration, children’s illustration, and graphic design as part of her BFA in Communications Design.

She had immigrated to the United States with her parents from Moscow, Russia, in the early 90′s shortly after yet another revolution took place there. It’s not a surprise that Tory is enamored with art, after all, she was practically destined for it. Her ancestry links back to even the great Bolshoi Theater in Moscow where her great grandparents worked as production artists. Though, if it wasn’t for her mother – a renowned Muscovite fashion designer herself – Tory would have never picked up those pastels, water colors, or pencils at age 3 and let her imagination run wild ever since.

In the US, Tory was exposed to a mixture art culture – but cartoons and comics always had the greatest effect on her. She has been making short comics and characters since high school (her 2006 high school yearbook is proof). 

Recently she had the opportunity to publish one of her 8-page stories with Dark Horse Comics (MDHP anthology issue #4), and to the credit of her editor, Scott Allie, it came out  looking even better than expected. The process for creating Face of Evil was simple: first came the original script, then came the second draft, rough layouts, pencils, and the digital color. The lettering was done by Nate Peikos of Blambot.

She’s also working on a personal project called Count Dorkula – dedicated to her little 7 year old cousin’s unnatural obsession with all things dark and creepy. Though Count Dorkula doesn’t really fit the stereotype of the average vampire, he is very reminiscent of a human adolescent boy.

With the helping guidance of her esteemed professors Pat Cummings and Tom Graham, Tory created two original stories titled Calamity strikes Fumyumia and J∅rgen the Norwegian Forest Cat, that she hopes to some day publish with the children’s book market. 

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