In the summer of 2007, I worked in a day care where we had "superhero week" with my class of preschoolers. For one of the art projects, we had each child draw (or at least try to draw) themselves as a superhero so that we could make a class book. So, naturally, I drew myself as one too.  I call her Avalon. Her powers: flight, enchanced speed, and control of air currents. Her attitude, appearance, color preference, hair style, etc. are all closely related to mine. And yes, I know the ribbons are impractical. But I thought I'd add them just for artistic sake. The picture was drawn by hand in my sketchbook and then colored in Adobe Photoshop 7.0.