Fauna Crawford

Fauna Crawford is a Canadian webcomic artist and creator of Westbury Detectives, studying English and Criminal Justice in university.

Personal Life
Born and raised in central Saskatchewan, Fauna had a heavy interest in art and writing from a young age, and decided to take up full-time drawing at the age of eight. She has an extensive collection of music and older Japanese media, the centre of this being a complete collection of Robert Palmer's discography.

She was taught at a special private school until fourth grade, where she was moved to a more affordable Catholic school, where her sometimes bizarre behaviour as a child made her a target for other students. Despite a number of dangerous incidents, it gave her a better ability of reading people, which she immediately put to use for her comics.

Although born female and sometimes performing offline in a flamboyant male "glamsona", Fauna considers herself beyond a set gender, although doesn't mind being referred to by male or female pronouns.

Inspirations
The "loop-eyed" style of eyes Fauna uses was drawn from a large interest in the 1991 cartoon Darkwing Duck, which anchored her cartooning style as being American-European. The Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, widely regarded as "the god of manga", was Fauna's lead inspiration from 7th to 11th grade and a heavy influence to improve her skills and increase art output. In late high school, singer-songwriter-producer Yasuyuki Okamura provided huge influence for Fauna, making a lot of her works lighter or goofier in tone.

Works
This list includes only the mention of works that were fully developed and/or had some comic pages produced.


 * Stop That - 2003-2006
 * Skipper the Robot Kid - 2005-2008
 * Westbury Detectives - 2005-present
 * Lunar Rabbit - 2006-2007
 * Feather & Fur - 2007
 * Cinderelliot - 2009
 * Quinn - 2009-2011
 * Hyperspace Bunny - 2009-2010
 * The 27 Ghosts of Endo - 2010
 * Ruby Day - 2012