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Prestileo's workspace is a small desk in her bedroom where she makes Pencil
drawings on paper, scans them in to a small PC workstation and applies color and other enhancements using a Wacom tablet, a $200 purchase that represents one of her largest investments.

Her website currently costs her just $12 a month and was upgraded from a free Yahoo! account simply because the volume of drawings she was including exceeded the allotted space limitations.

All of her work occurs within a few feet of a bookshelf crammed full of her comic inspirations, both professionally and fan produced.

Prestileo's approach is not without precedent.

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