Rivkah (artist)
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Rivkah is best known as the artist, writer, and creator of the ongoing teen graphic novel series Steady Beat.
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[edit] Biography
Rebecca Rivkah Greulich (born November 13, 1981) is a born-and-raised native Austinite.
In August of 2003 Rivkah gave up her current career--running a fiction novel publishing company (Rabid Press Inc.) and managing the art and marketing department of a catalog mail order company (Supercircuit Inc.)--to pick up the pen and pursue comics full-time. In spite of the sacrifices and hardships she's had to endure to pursue her dream, she claims to haven't looked back since.
When not working on her graphic novels, Rivkah spends the rest of her time speaking at libraries and conventions and writing free online tutorials for young, aspiring artists and writers. She says she doesn't believe in charging for knowledge, and more than anything, she loves being able to share her passion with other creators and seeing them take their dreams into their own hands.
Rivkah currently writes and draws the ongoing TOKYOPOP teen graphic novel series Steady Beat. Her major influences are Will Eisner, Osamu Tezuka, Terry Moore, and her fellow artistic contemporaries and friends at TOKYOPOP. Her favorite books and series are Buddha by Osamu Tezuka, The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, and The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. She spends a lot of her time reading and rereading books by Dale Carnegie, Ray Bradbury, Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, and various YA novels and children's books. She hopes to someday break into the arena of YA and children's literature.
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- Steady Beat - Steady Beat is more than just a shoujo manga / comic. It's a story about growing up. It's about coming to terms with other people's differences and your own. It's about accepting change . . . and how those changes affect those around us. Set in the Southern town of Austin, TX, the first volumes of Steady Beat follow the life of Leah Winters as she comes to terms with her perfectionist sister's homosexuality. Having lived in her sister Sarai's shadow for years, Leah slowly begins to discover her own interests and path in life. Whether through relationships, school, or the simple trials of living, Steady Beat takes the reader on the journey of a young girl's discovery of self and the bitter reality of our own prejudices and the ability to overcome them. (Volume 1 published October 2005 and currently ongoing.)
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- Mangaka America - (Contributing artist and tutorials) Manga--or Japanese comics--have become a part of our culture, with more and more artists growing up learning to draw in the manga style. “Mangaka” is a term for someone who creates manga. The artists in MANGAKA AMERICA represent the newest dynamic talents in the field and are professionally creating it for an American audience, something that was unheard of 20 years ago. Mangaka America showcases a selection of these US-based mangaka, highlighting each artist’s unique contribution to the genre. Manga fans are often anxious to learn new skills and techniques, and this book provides mini-tutorials in which each artist provides instruction on character design, layouts, digital inking, and coloring. (October 2006)
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- Pink - Winning short story entry for "International Create Your Own Manga Contest" and first completed work. (February 2004)
