“Dramacon Volume One” is the first novel in the “Dramacon” series and was released in the year 2005.When Christie, an amateur writer, settles into the artist alley of her very first anime convention, she sees it as a chance to promote the manga that she started with her artist boyfriend. It also won the 2nd Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics and the Dragon Award for Kids Comics at the Shuster Awards. Awkward was nominated for an Eisner Award, named as one of School Library Journal’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2015 and was named by YALSA on their list of the 201 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Nightschool won the Dragon Award for Kids Comics at the Shuster Awards in the year 2010. Svetlana’s hobbies include sleeping, eating, buying way more books than she’s got the shelf space for, and riding the subway during the middle of the day, when it is half empty, and half-full of some Very Interesting People.ĭramacon was nominated for an Eisner Award in the year 2007. To this day, she is a still a skillful shirker of her deadlines. Thousands and thousands of drawings for manga and comics.Īlong with producing many manga series, she was a Master Comics Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for The Arts and was a featured artist for the US wide 2011 “You Are Here” Collaborative Summer Library Program. Then she started publishing her manga on the Internet.Īccidentally she became a full time writer and artist, and has written and drawn for how-to-draw books, animation, toy designs, and most of all, manga and comics.

After emigrating to Canada when she was sixteen, she graduated from the Sheridan College Classical Animation program in the year 2002 with a Classical Animation diploma.

Svetlana Chmakova was born Octoin Russia where she was first exposed to comics once she found ElfQuest at a Moscow book stand.

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