Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Sunday 25 April
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Drawing Manga - Workshop with Queenie Chan
Manga is the Japanese word for ‘comics’ - a style of art and story-telling which has been popularised all over the world via the Internet, along with other related segments of Japanese pop culture (including anime and video gaming). This workshop will give a brief overview of manga culture in Japan, followed by lessons in how to tell a story in Manga form.
Special attention will be paid to pacing and panelling, as well as a dicussion of mood, genres, and all other aspects of manga story-telling. Attendees should expect to do some drawing, though advanced skill in art is unnecessary.
Featuring
Queenie Chan
Queenie Chan was born in 1980 in Hong Kong, and migrated to Australia when she was six years old. In 2004, she began drawing a 3-volume mystery-horror series called The Dreaming for LA-based manga publisher TOKYOPOP. To date, it has been translated into multiple languages.
She has since collaborated on a single-volume graphic novel called In Odd We Trust with publisher Del Rey, a prequel to the Odd Thomas series of novels by New York Times best-selling author Dean Koontz. A sequel is forth-coming in 2010. In 2009, she also provided art for the Boys Book of Positive Quotations, by best-selling inspirational author Steve Deger.
Apart from her professional work, she also draws a number of online comic strips on her personal site: http://www.queeniechan.com/