Queenie Chan facts for kids

Queenie Chan is a talented artist from China and Australia. She draws and writes manga (Japanese-style comics) in English. She helped create the graphic novel In Odd We Trust. A graphic novel is like a long comic book that tells a full story. This book was a prequel to a popular series called Odd Thomas. Queenie also drew the pictures for the next book, Odd Is On Our Side. She is also working on a book called The Boy's Book of Positive Quotations.

About Queenie Chan's Early Life

Queenie Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1980. When she was six years old, in 1986, her family moved to Australia. As a child, Queenie loved to read. She especially enjoyed reading manga. She also read Chinese versions of Shonen Jump. This is a very famous Japanese comic magazine. She also liked popular American comics like Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes.

How Queenie Started Drawing Comics

Queenie went to Meriden High School. After high school, she went to the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She studied computer programming there. But in 1998, something changed. She read a manga called Rurouni Kenshin. This comic inspired her a lot. It made her want to write and draw her own manga stories.

Queenie Chan's Career in Comics

Queenie Chan started by publishing her own comics online. These were called web comics. Later, in 2005, she decided to show her work to a company called Tokyopop. Tokyopop is a big publisher of manga. She was successful! Tokyopop published her three-book series called The Dreaming.

Praise for Queenie's Artwork

Many people liked Queenie Chan's work on The Dreaming. A reviewer named Bill Sherman praised her art. He said she was a "skillful visual storyteller." He also mentioned that she was great at creating a strong mood in her drawings.