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Welcome to Tina and Mouse, a minimalist comic on translation!

On Home you'll find the latest comic strip. To read all strips in sequential order, please go to All. You may also view selected strips on Archive on the right. Within each panel in a comic strip, speech balloons are read Western style, from left to right and from top to bottom. Most of the strips are self-contained and may be read independently, but some of them are related to the ones before (strips belonging to a story arc are indicated by the symbol ↑).

ABOUT THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE TINA AND MOUSE COMIC

	Tina – The translator Tina is a word-buff, coffee-lover, freelance technical translator in her thirties with a degree from the Grünburg Institute of Technology in Grünland, her native country. She speaks Grünish and English and has a love–hate relationship with her job. During the long translating hours alone in her Grünburg flat she finds an attentive interlocutor in her computer mouse.
	Mouse – The mouse Mouse is a bossy, opinionated, solitude-phobic, PC- and Mac-compatible wireless computer mouse. He is extremely protective of Tina, with whom he's been since she started working as a technical translator ten years ago. He thinks Tina ought to get out more often, but he's secretly glad when she doesn't because he misses her terribly.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE TINA AND MOUSE COMIC

Elena holds a Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery from Universidad Complutense and Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón de Madrid in Spain, her native country. She speaks Spanish, English, Italian and French, and she has worked since 1991 in the medical translation business in various capacities (translator, editor, project manager, third-party reviewer, director of medical translation services, linguistic quality assurance specialist). She doesn't talk to her computer mouse, but only because it would never answer her back. She does talk to her husband, who answers her back almost fifty percent of the time. She loves her job, reading, writing, learning new languages, working out, listening to music, spending time with friends and family, playing the guitar, and coffee.

MORE INFORMATION

To read about Tina and Mouse's origins, please go to Origins.

For more information about Tina and Mouse, stay tuned to the blog.

For more information about Elena, please visit her professional website at www.wespeakmedical.com.