Erica Renée Bass

"She is the 'tough' girl on Nuki's team. She is ALSO Donovon's baby Momma. Oh yeah, we have drama. I wanted her to look tough.... but not 'butch'. So I gave her this anime-ish face and hair, but she has a 'womanly' shape. A also decided to take a chance and do some form of shading...... I'm trying"

(Artist's website, November 11, 2002)

"It's more like this 'throbbing-pulsating' migraine in ideal form that goes away once I take out the pen and paper... LOL!!!"

(Artist's website, November 24, 2004)

Anime and manga ... more the art of someone on LSD and a migraine than true art?

"Anime and manga have to rate as the down side to art and eroticism... The art is childish and bland at best, more the art of someone on LSD and a migraine than true art. The ugliness of women with purple hair and eyes the size of trash cans does little for the imagination; this is the art of anal retentives, pure and simple..."

(Customer Review #3 on Patrick Drazen, Anime Explosion! The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation, 2002)

However, if any proof would be needed that the art of someone on a migraine may be great art, it could be found on this website...