Christy Lijewski

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Christy Lijewski is an American comic book artist and illustrator from Baltimore, Maryland who specializes in manga. She operates on the internet under the pen name Nyanko-Chan

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[edit] Style

Christy Lijewski's art and storytelling are largely derived from Manga, a distinctly Japanese style of comic drawing and publication. She is one of the newly appearing of American Mangaka, a group deriving not only their style from Japanese comics but also their publication, choosing to write and illustrate their own comics with long and self contained storylines, as opposed to the more western style seen in publishers like Marvel Comics and DC Comics. On a more personal level, Lijewski's work is notable for its detail and sense of fashion, largely similar to Pop Surrealism, J-Pop and Punk style, as well as containing many dialogue and art references to both Japanese and American comics and animation. Some of these references include Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, and Futurama.

[edit] Career

Christy Lijewski's big break was Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga contest, in which her entry "Doors" placed runner up. Although this meant that the Lijewski did not win the guaranteed contract with Tokyopop, it did bring her work into the public. Doors was also the genesis of Lijewski's series Next Exit, which Slave Labor Graphics began to publish in 2004. Next Exit is an expanded version of the story in "Doors", the two even sharing the main characters Retrab and Markesh. She was then one of a few runner up artists to enter a deal publishing with Tokyopop, and has written RE:Play as an entirely new series for release.

[edit] Works

"Zombie King"
A Manga realeased in ICEntertainment/Studio Ironcat's Amerimanga Anthology that 5 chapters of the story ran, but the anthology was canceled and the story never really took off as Christy lijewski has quoted in an interview found here. [1]
"Doors"
A short story, that ran in Tokyopop's Third Rising stars of Manga, The story that appeared in this short story would later be adapted for Next Exit.
Next Exit
A manga released in periodical issues by Slave Labor Graphics. There have been Ten periodicals and one volume (issues 1-6 collected.) Christy Lijewski has Left the publisher, on amicable terms. She is Currently looking for a new Publisher to continue the story.[2]
RE:Play
There are to be three volumes released by Tokyopop, the first of which is due on August 8, 2006 [3].

[edit] Trivia

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  • Lijewski is one of the most viewed artists on the website DeviantArt[citation needed].
  • Lijewski once stated that she can tell how well people know her by how they pronounce her name. The pronunciation of her last name is given in an interview in Mangaka America, which showcases some of her art and a character design tutorial by her, as well as art and tutorials by a number of other artists.