the comicbook cover art of jo chen
in my varied 
which is not at all a slight to Ms. Chen, becoz her artwork is stunningly alluring! ever since i first laid eyes on her work on Marvel's Runaways - tis always been a pleasure when i hold a comicbook with her artwork on the cover :) - the luscious imagery of a painted subtle hyper-realism, with a heavy dose of anime-goodness = *gorgeous*
Jo Chen (咎井淳) is a comic book artist.
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan on the 4th of July and emigrated to the United States in late 1994. Working professionally in the Asian comic book industry since age 18, 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. In June 2006, Joss Whedon announced that Chen would illustrate the covers to the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Season 8" comic[1]. [wiki]
- Jo Chen's website
- peep her exceptional cover-gallery here @ ComicArtCommunity [images via]
- add her on myspace (i want to but im shy :p)
Jo Chen is also a part of the Secret Comic Syndicate (myspace),
along with her sister, Christina Chen :)
... and luckily for me, Joss Whedon's writing also helped me in continuing
the Buffy-series lah (for now anyways) ... *heh*
