Putting whimsy into words
Storytelling has always been a part of Kirstie’s life. She grew up in California, in a family where stories were told as a means of sharing family histories, entertainment, and of settling disputes over household chores. She won her first award for storytelling at the age of five.
Before Curio & Co.
Kirstie is a published author with experience writing for comic books, magazines, and advertising campaigns in Europe and the United States. She has created communication projects that lift the story off the page and bring it to life, including writing and developing shows for groups of 120 schoolchildren aged 5-15, and serving as a spokesperson in the US national and Los Angeles metropolitan area radio and TV broadcasting.
The Stories Behind the Objects
Her work builds the imaginary worlds of Curio & Co., the creative studio she co-founded with Cesare Asaro in Vienna in 2010, producing entertainment collectibles that include the storyline of Spaceman Jax, the character voice of Finding Frank and His Friend, which earned an Eisner Award nomination, the deadpan technical language of the Gadabout TM-1050 Time Machine User’s Manual, later optioned for a feature film, and the invented history behind the Tarot of Musterberg. The products draw on her imaginative storytelling abilities, both on and off the page, to create a world that is fantastic, yet believable. From settings and characters to storylines and props, her work reveals an extraordinary world that’s lurking just under the surface of our own humdrum lives.
For Kirstie, the craft isn’t inventing a story. It’s making an invented one feel lived-in.
