"About Me"

Name: Queenie Chan

Studio: CKY Studios (a one-person endeavour)

Year of Birth: 1980

Place of Origin: Sydney, Australia

I started drawing manga back in 1998, halfway through the year, namely to escape university life and how incredibly boring it was. It was a rather unexpected turn of events. I have been a manga fan ever since I was 10, but I've never been much interested in drawing before. Nor have I had any art-training (though that is no longer a disadvantage). I knew I had artistic abilities, but I have never once thought of applying it to drawing manga, until one day, while leafing through a copy of Rurouni Kenshin (by Watsuki Nobuhiro), I thought to myself... "Hey, maybe I can do this." And so it all began...

I still think my best quality is that I actually manage to finish stories.

To date, I haven't published any of my work. It's too bad... I certainly would want a wider audience (and make some money out of my efforts!). But unfortunately, I live in Australia, a place with a non-existent comics/manga industry. It's a joke... I mean, this entire country only has a population of 20 million anyway - 3 million in Sydney - so how many people can you reach via traditional publishing anyway?

Better to put my stuff on the internet.

I'm doing this for free, but if there's one thing worse than drawing manga for free, it's drawing manga for free, but with no one reading it at all. If these don't go on the internet, then they go into the drawer, gathering dust. And what exactly is the point of that?

None, really. So as much as I would like to make some money, complete oblivion is worse. I do what I do because I want to draw, and I want to share what I have I drawn, and the stories I have written. So if you're reading this, please direct as many people as you can to this website - whether they're interested in manga/comics or not. Maybe one day I'll be rich and famous and charging everyone money to read my stuff, but the stories that you find here will always be here. And the best part about that is that they're actually finished stories.