Svetlana Chmakova

Biography:
Svetlana Chmakova was born and raised on a small settler colony on the moon, where she first discovered her love of comics when reading contraband issues of ElfQuest.

When she was 16, she snuck on a berillium transport* to Earth and landed in Canada, of all places. Slightly irradiated and woozy, she somehow ended up in an animation school which led to all sorts of trouble including a sudden career in comics-making. Svetlana's first full-length OEL manga series Dramacon was published by TOKYOPOP and met with much critical approval and offers of Pocky. It is now published in 12 languages and its hardcover collected edition can be used as an excellent self-defense weapon.

Currently Svetlana is busy shirking deadlines for her new series Nightschool, serialized in the monthly anthology Yen Plus. It's hard work! So if you see her napping, Just Let Her Be.

(*NOTE: Svetlana's family and friends may dispute the story of Svetlana's arrival to Canada, and claim that she was actually born and raised in Russia, flew across the ocean in a normal plane with her family, and that she was never irradiated at all. So just, uh, tune it out.)