Queenie Chan
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| Queenie Chan | |
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| Born | 1980 Hong Kong |
| Area(s) | Penciller |
| Notable works | The Dreaming, Odd Is On Our Side, In Odd We Trust |
Queenie Chan is a Chinese-Australian Original English-Language comic artist who co-wrote and illustrated the graphic novel In Odd We Trust, a prequel to Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas, and published by Del Rey. She illustrated the sequel, Odd Is On Our Side, and is illustrating The Boy's Book of Positive Quotations for Fairview Press. [1]
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[edit] Personal Life
She originally lived in Hong Kong, but in 1986, she and her family moved to Australia. Through her childhood, she has interest in reading manga and read Chinese-translated versions of Shonen Jump. She also read popular American cartoons such as Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes.
She attended Meriden High School before graduating and enrolling at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to study computer programming, but in mid-1998, she was inspired to write and draw her own manga stories after reading Rurouni Kenshin.
[edit] Career
Queenie Chan started publishing her own web comics before she considered submitting her work to Tokyopop in 2005, where she successfully published her three volume series The Dreaming.
[edit] Reception
Bill Sherman, reviewing Chan's work on The Dreaming praised her work stating she was a "skillful visual storyteller, capable of slathering on the atmosphere".[2]
[edit] Selected Biblography
[edit] Published Works
- The Dreaming (2005–2007)
- In Odd We Trust (2008)
- Odd Is On Our Side (2010)
- The Boy's Book of Positive Quotations (Illustrator) (2009)
[edit] One-shot manga
- A Chinese Ghost Story
- Twinside
- Block 6
[edit] Short stories
- Only Flora
- Keeper of the Soul
- Message To You
- The Two Dollar Deal
- Ten Years Ago Today
- Blood of Snow
- Yuen
- A Girl Called Marian
- Greenhouse
- A Short Ghost Story
- Twins
- Air+Space
- Shirley’s Story
- Twinside
- Block 6
- A Chinese Ghost Story
[edit] References
- ^ Super Creatives: Queenie Chan Marianne De Pierres
- ^ Bill Sherman (September 19, 2010). "Manga Review: The Dreaming Collection by Queenie Chan". Blogcritics. http://blogcritics.org/books/article/manga-review-the-dreaming-collection-by/#ixzz1kHDPIQUV. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
