Christy Lijewski

Christy Lijewski
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller, Inker
Pseudonym(s)	Nyanko-Chan, and-babel-fell
Notable works	Next Exit RE:Play
Official website

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

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 manga artist, 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.

Career

Christy Lijewski attended Savannah College of Art and Design for their Sequential Art program. Her 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.

Bibliography

• "Zombie King": A manga released 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 said in an interview.^[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.
• RE:Play: Three volumes released by Tokyopop.
• Samurai Host Club: This is an ongoing webcomic Lijewski has started.

Notes

1. ^ Lijewski takes the Next Exit to SLG, Comicon.com, November 30, 2004

References

• Christy Lijewski at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Official website
• and-babel-fell at Deviant Art
• Samurai Host Club webcomic at SmackJeeves

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