Jo Chen

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Jo Chen (咎井淳) (born July 4, 1976) is a female comic book artist.

Biography

Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and emigrated to the United States in late 1994. Working professionally in the Asian comic book industry since age fourteen, she burst suddenly onto the U.S. comic book scene with her art work for the Racer X mini-series, part of the Speed Racer series published by Wildstorm/D.C. Comics in 2000.

She quickly established herself producing interiors and covers for titles including "Darkminds: Macropolis", "Battle of the Planets", "Robotech", "Fight for Tomorrow", "Taskmaster", "The Demon", "Thor", and "(Batman &) Robin". Currently she is most well known to American comic readers as the cover artist of "Runaways" and Joss Whedon's current "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 "comic published by Dark Horse.

In other media, Chen has also produced packaging artwork for Microsoft's popular FABLE, and FABLE II RPGs, and done covers for (a Final Fantasy cover for the January 2002 issue and a Tomb Raider cover for the February 2003 issue).

She is the younger sister of artist Christina Chen [ [http://www.candyshards.com] ] and lives with her family outside of Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

Comics

Comic interiors include:

* "Racer X" #1-3 (DC/Wildstorm, 2000). 3-issue miniseries.
* "Darkminds: Macropolis" #1-4 (Dreamwave, 2002). By Jo Chen and Christina Chen.
* "Robotech: Love and War" (DC/Wildstorm, 2003). Jo Chen drew "Little White Dragon", a back-up story included in every issue of the miniseries. Also drew a cover for the back-up story of #6.
* "Battle of the Planets / Witchblade" (Top Cow). Jo Chen assists her sister Christina Chen in the pencils of this one-shot crossover. In her own words (in a interview in The Pulse, in 2002): "Christina is the lead artist and I am only assisting with some minor peripheral characters that pop up in a panel crowd scene." [ [http://www.comicon.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/36/t/000550.html] ]
* "The Other Side of the Mirror" volumes 1 & 2 (TokyoPop (English version), JPOP (Italian version), 2007-2008)
* "" trade paperback collection of DC/Wildstorm series (IDW Publishing, 2008)

Covers

Comic covers include:

* "The Demon: Driven out" #1 (DC Comics, 2003). The cover of the #2 of this miniseries was drawn by her sister, Christina Chen.
* "Fight for Tomorrow" #5 (DC/Vertigo)
* "Robin" #115-117,119-120 (DC Comics)
* " The Taskmaster" #2 of mini-series (Marvel 2002).
* "Runaways" Vol. 1 #1-6, 8-10, 13-18 (Marvel, 2003-2004) & Runaways Vol.2 #1-6, 9-10 & 19-30 (Marvel, 2005-2008).
* "Thor: Son of Asgard" #7-12 (Marvel, 2004-2005)
* "Street Fighter". Jo Chen has done several covers for the "power foil" variant covers of the Street Fighter comic-book series produced by the UDON studios. Some of these covers were also used in some Street Fighter merchandising (at least in prints and control pads).
* "" #2 - Kaylee (Dark Horse 2005).
* "" (Dynamite Entertainment 2007).
* "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight" #1-10, 16-current (Dark Horse).
* "" trade paperback editiion (Dark Horse 2008).

References

External links

* [http://www.cincity2000.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1393 This Month In Covers: July 2008 cc2k.us]
*official|http://www.jo-chen.com
*myspace|jochencomics|Jo Chen
* [http://blog.newsarama.com/2006/07/18/ewcom-has-first-look-at-buffy-cover/ Cover of the first issue] of the a new Buffy the vampire slayer miniseries to be published in fall 2006, written by Joss Whedon.
* [http://www.robotech.com/gallery/galimage/viewsubcategory.php?id=111 Preview] of the "Robotech: Love and War" miniseries, with several pages of the back up stories drawn by Jo Chen.
* [http://www.jivemagazine.com/article.php?pid=2010 Inteview with Jo Chen about XBOX FABLE game]
* [http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/02/comics_mirror.html 99 Roses] - NY Magazine previews Jo's short story from TokyoPop's release of "The Other Side of the Mirror".
* [http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=d80a5430-a0f8-4f02-b7e1-31681a43b426 Geek Girls Gone Wild] - Jo and other female artists interviewed in Calgary Herald 2008.