Queenie Chan

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Queenie Chan is a Chinese-Australian Original English-Language manga artist who was born in 1980. She originally lived in Hong Kong, but in 1986, she and her family moved to Australia. Through her childhood, she has interest in reading manga and read Chinese-translated versions of Shonen Jump. She also read popular American cartoons such as Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes.

Initially, she came into the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to study to become a computer programmer, but in mid-1998, she was inspired to write and draw her own manga stories after reading Rurouni Kenshin by Watsuki Nobuhiro. Queenie Chan then started publishing her own web comics before she considered submitting her work to Tokyopop, where she successfully published her three volume series "The Dreaming".

She is currently working with Del Rey on a graphic novel adaption to "Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz