18 Facts About Nina Paley

Nina Carolyn Paley was born on May 3,1968 and is an American cartoonist, animator, and free culture activist.

Nina Paley was the artist and often the writer of the comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, after which she worked primarily in animation.

Nina Paley is perhaps best known for creating the 2008 animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues, based on the Ramayana, with parallels to her personal life.

Nina Paley's father was a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois and was mayor of Urbana for a term in the early 1970s.

Nina Paley attended local elementary and high schools, graduating from University High School in 1986.

Nina Paley illustrated a "History of the North Pole" comic in collaboration with University High School history teacher Chris Butler, and attended the University of Illinois, studying art for two years before dropping out.

In 1988, Paley moved to Santa Cruz, California, and began to write and draw the strip Nina's Adventures.

In 2012, Nina Paley posted an animation to Vimeo titled This Land Is Mine depicting the Middle East conflicts over history; it was named a Staff Pick.

Between projects, Nina Paley has worked as a freelance director at Duck Studios in Los Angeles.

Nina Paley has taught in the Design and Technology section of Parsons, part of The New School.

In February 2022, Nina Paley completed her project Apocalypse Animated, an animation of each chapter of the Book of Revelation.

In 2002, Nina Paley moved to Trivandrum, India, where her husband had taken a job.

Nina Paley later added episodes and other material to the work, which is called Sita Sings the Blues.

Nina Paley wrote "Understanding Free Content", an illustrated guide to the idea of free content.

Nina Paley has published much of her work, including Nina's Adventures, Fluff, and all original work in Sita Sings The Blues, under a copyleft licence.

Nina Paley won a Public Knowledge IP3 award in 2010 "for her work in intellectual property".

Nina Paley describes herself as gender critical and writes often about the topic on her blog and social media.

Nina Paley was a signatory to an open letter published by The Sunday Times defending JK Rowling against criticism for alleged transphobia.