1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Nina Paley&amp;nbsp;started out as a comic strip artist, including for&amp;nbsp;Fluff&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;The Hots, as well as her own alternative weekly&amp;nbsp;Nina's Adventures.In 1998, she began making independent animated festival&amp;nbsp;films, including the controversial yet popular environmental short,&amp;nbsp;The Stork.In 2002,&amp;nbsp;Nina&amp;nbsp;followed her then-husband to&amp;nbsp;Trivandrum, India, where she read her first&amp;nbsp;Ramayana. This inspired her first feature film,&amp;nbsp;Sita Sings the Blues, which she animated and produced single-handedly over the course of 5 years on a home computer, featuring the lost music of jazz vocal legend&amp;nbsp;Annette Hanshaw. Spoiler Alert Radio http://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/1594769/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/3272706