Chynna Clugston

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Chynna Clugston (born August 19, 1975) is an American comic book creator. She started her career as Chynna Clugston-Major before her divorce from Guy Major (a colorist and toner on most of her books to this day). On the day before Halloween, 2005, she married her boyfriend, fellow Yosemite High School alumnus Jonathan Flores.

While attending Yosemite High School in Oakhurst during the early 1990s she came up with her currently on-going comic book title Blue Monday, which debuted at Oni Press in 1999 in Oni Double Feature #11. In 2000 Oni published the first Blue Monday miniseries, Blue Monday: The Kids Are Alright.

She has been nominated for three Eisner Awards for Best Limited Series for Blue Monday (2001) and her participation on Hopeless Savages (2002) and Best Writer/Artist-Humor (2002); The Russ Manning award (2000) and a Harvey award.

Clugston is a fan of many things, among them Japanese, Irish and especially British culture, including mod fashion, britpop, and film. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, as well as with her Bulldog, Buster.

[edit] Selected works

Aside from Blue Monday, Clugston's other notable works include:

• Hopeless Savages - Clugston illustrated the flashback scenes. Oni Press (2001), ISBN 1-929998-24-4.
• Scooter Girl, a miniseries telling the story of two modern mods living in California. Oni Press (2003), ISBN 1-929998-88-0.
• Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #11, a story about Peter Parker running into the Ultimate X-Men in a mall.
• "Anew," a 1940s romance short story in the anthology Four Letter Worlds. Image Comics (2005), ISBN 1-58240-439-9.
• Queen Bee, a middle school drama. graphix / Scholastic Press (2005), ISBN 0-439-70987-3.
• Strangetown, about a 10-year old girl named Vanora Finnar who mysteriously washed onto the Oregon shore in 1973. Oni Press (2006)
• Legion Of Super-Heroes In The 31st Century, Based on the animated version of the DC Comics property, featuring Superman. Johnny DC (2007)