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Nina Paley\xa0started out as a comic strip artist, including for\xa0Fluff\xa0and\xa0The Hots, as well as her own alternative weekly\xa0Nina's Adventures.

In 1998, she began making independent animated festival\xa0films, including the controversial yet popular environmental short,\xa0The Stork.

In 2002,\xa0Nina\xa0followed her then-husband to\xa0Trivandrum, India, where she read her first\xa0Ramayana. This inspired her first feature film,\xa0Sita Sings the Blues, which she animated and produced single-handedly over the course of 5 years on a home computer, featuring the lost music of jazz vocal legend\xa0Annette Hanshaw.