Queenie Chan Interview — Design Federation — Australian Design News. In the parallel universe of manga , one young, Australian artist is creating a KAPOW! With her illustrations and leading the groundswell of interest from local creatives in the Japanese-inspired style. Queenie Chan ditched a career in IT during the dot.com-bust to pursue comic illustration, her debut series The Dreaming was released by US comic publisher TokyoPop and the 30 year old artist hasn’t looked back. DF caught up with Queenie to kick off 2011. Introduce Yourself! Name: Queenie ChanOccupation: Manga/Comic ArtistLocation: SydneyWebsite: www.queeniechan.com Tell us a little bit about your work: My story is a little unusual – despite being an artist, I didn’t draw much as a child (except for school projects).
Were you formally trained in art? No. How did you get into manga and what can you tell people about the “genre”? I’ve always read manga as a child growing up in Hong Kong, so I was familiar with it as a story-telling medium. What influences or inspiration do you draw upon? ABC TV Sunday Arts - This Week. 1: Otaku Culture ‘Otaku’ a term originally coined in Japan and translating as ‘obsessive fan’ is a global sub-cultural phenomenon. Surrounded by memorabilia of their hobby of choice, otaku are obsessive consumers of science fiction, comic books, video games, and anime. Three young Australian artists, Paul Robertson, Queenie Chan and Halzka Masash share with us their fascinating work and guide us through a world inhabited by pixilated characters, mechanised plastic dolls, robot projections, and fluffy stuffed toys. 2.: Chanting Workshop In this Sunday Arts Workshop, the Gyuto Monks of Tibet demonstrate some beautiful chanting and breathing techniques of Harmonic Chanting: a very primal, guttural chanting replicating the sound of the female Himalayan yak.
APRIL 8-9 SYDNEY International Ayurveda Yoga ConferenceAPRIL 18-26 CANBERRA National Museum of AustraliaMAY 6 HORSHAM Wesley Arts CentreMAY 19-21 MORNINGTON PENNISULA Droman Community Centre Retreat Weekend. 4: ABC Fiction Award. Interview: Queenie Chan. During the last two decades, the popularity of Japanese ‘manga’ (comic books) and ‘anime’ (animation) has spread far beyond its own shores, winning huge audiences not only through Asia, but also in ‘Western’ markets, like North America, Europe and Australasia. This renewed interest in Japanese comics culture is partly attributable to the success of Japanese cartoons like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh on foreign television networks, which have in turn been fuelled by the trading card collecting ‘crazes’ built around these and similar programmes.
The influence of Japanese comic art can be seen in the pages of traditionally ‘Western’ comics, as publishers try to emulate the appearance of Japanese manga. This cultural traffic has, however, been running both ways between the East and West in recent years. Queenie Chan scored a publishing coup in 2004, when she was contracted by the American-based manga publisher, Tokyopop, to produce a three-volume manga series set in , titled The Dreaming. Calendar. Bento Comics : Queenie Chan. Queenie Chan. Personal life[edit] She originally lived in Hong Kong, but in 1986, she and her family moved to Australia.
Through her childhood, she was interested in reading manga and also read Chinese-translated versions of Shonen Jump as well as popular American cartoon strips 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. Career[edit] Reception[edit] Selected Bibliography[edit] Published Works[edit] One-shot manga[edit] A Chinese Ghost StoryTwinsideBlock 6 Short stories[edit] Only FloraKeeper of the SoulMessage To YouThe Two Dollar DealTen Years Ago TodayBlood of SnowYuenA Girl Called MarianGreenhouseA Short Ghost StoryTwinsAir+SpaceShirley’s StoryTwinsideBlock 6A Chinese Ghost Story References[edit] External links[edit]
The Dreaming. The Dreaming By Queenie Chan TokypPop, three volumes, 540pp, $14.95 MANGA is on the move. Even casual observers of popular culture could hardly fail to notice the influence of Japanese comics, alongside their animated sibling anime, on film, computer games, fashion and even cosmetics. Coupled with a resurgent interest in graphic novels in the West, the once exclusively Japanese publishing phenomenon has ventured well beyond its borders.
Manga, while unlikely to attain the broad acceptability enjoyed in its native land, where it accounts for nearly 40 per cent of all publication sales, has become one of the fastest growing areas in the Western book trade, with mainstream publishers such as Gollancz, Del Rey, Hodder & Stoughton and HarperCollins playing catch-up with pioneering manga purveyors Viz, Studio Proteus and market leader TokyoPop. Identical twins Amber and Jeanie are sent to a remote, Victorian-era boarding school deep in the bush. Therein lie some telling ironies. HorrorScope: Interview: Queenie Chan. Jazma Online: Interview with Queenie Chan. Allen: Tell us something about yourself. Queenie Chan: I was born in Hong Kong in 1980, and migrated to Sydney, Australia in 1986. I went to Meriden for nearly all of my life, and graduated from the University of NSW with a degree in Information Systems.
However, I couldn’t find a job since I graduated in 2002, right at the nadir of the dot com bust, so I changed my career aspirations to become a manga artist instead. Drawing-wise, I started drawing when I was 18, mostly to escape the sheer boredom of university life. Allen: What was the first comic book you ever read? Queenie: Doraemon. Allen: How did you get involved in the comic book industry? Queenie: In 2004, TOKYOPOP started looking for manga artists to publish original manga. Allen: Brief us about your upcoming comic book called Odd Thomas. Queenie: “Odd Thomas” is a single graphic novel, about 180-pages, that is the prequel to a trilogy of books written by Dean Koontz. Allen: Who are some of the characters in Odd Thomas comic?