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FRANK CHO
Frank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho,[1] is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book creator, writer, and illustrator, best known for his series Liberty Meadows.[1]
The second of three children, Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971, but moved to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Beltsville, Maryland.[2] After graduating from High Point High School in 1990,[3] he attended Prince George's Community College and was offered a scholarship to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, which he declined because he disliked the school's academic focus.[2] Cho ended up transferring to the University of Maryland School of Nursing, which he says was his parents' idea.[3] Cho ultimately graduated with a B.S. in Nursing[1][2] in 1996.
Cho received no formal training as an artist.[2] He got his start writing and drawing a cartoon strip called "Everything but the Kitchen Sink" in the weekly Prince George's Community College Newspaper "The Owl" where he was also comics editor. He then started drawing the daily strip University2 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park.[3] After graduation, Cho adapted elements of this work for use in a professionally syndicated strip, Liberty Meadows. Cho signed a fifteen-year contract with Creators Syndicate,[3] which he later realized was unusually long and, perhaps jokingly, blamed on having a bad lawyer.[2] Growing tired of newspaper censorship, Cho severed his contract with Creators Syndicate, and ultimately converted Liberty Meadows to a monthly publication. He works with one assistant named Mara Rose. She consults with convention comic fans and has started recoloring Liberty Meadows Sunday strips.
Cho has also drawn a wide variety of other professional material, including a new version of Shanna the She-Devil in 2005 for Marvel Comics. His Shanna series was originally meant to feature "mature" artwork, including nude drawings of the heroine, but Marvel later decided to have Cho censor his already completed pages for the first five issues, and the 7-issue series did not feature nudity. However, Marvel plans to release in 2008 a hardcover collection, which will contain the uncensored artwork.[citation needed]
Frank Cho enjoyed an amazing surge of popularity fueled by the success of his syndicated comic strip, 'Liberty Meadows', and his immaculate renderings of traditional adventure subjects for the pulp revival publications 'Titanic Tales' and 'Jimgrim and the Devil at Ludd'. His fans have started high-stakes bidding wars just to own a piece of his original art. His comic books constantly sell out issue after issue, with early issues now in their fourth printings. His college comic strip collection, 'University2, the Angry Years!' is now rapidly selling through its fifth printing. He has won the Charles Schulz Plaque for Excellence in Cartooning, the Scripps-Howard Award for Best College Cartoonist and the Ignatz Awards for Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Comic for 'Liberty Meadows'. He was married in April of 1999, and lives in the Baltimore area with his wife Cari and his wiener dog, Truman.
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- Frank Cho has announced the upcoming release of three new Sideshow Collectibles figures: his trademark uber-sexy versions of Spider-Woman, Ms. Marvel and Shanna the She-Devil.
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Image Comics has provided Newsarama with an
exclusive first look into this week's Apes & Babes: The Art of Frank Cho
hardcover. The solicitation for the volume reads: art & cover FRANK CHO
144 PAGES, FC, $29.99
From the award-winning creator of LIBERTY MEADOWS, ZOMBIE KING and JUNGLE GIRL,
comes APES AND BABES: THE ART OF FRANK CHO. This 144-page full color collection
will showcase FRANK CHO’s past and present illustrations and you will see why
he’s considered one of the top masters of the female form and fantastic
beasts.
Signed & numbered, 3000.
Brandy from Liberty Meadows, Witchblade, Spider Woman, Sue Storm, Black Panther, Shanna the She-Devil, and various beasts and monsters romp through the pages of this top-notch sketchbook.
This collection showcases Cho's considerable talents with rough sketches, finished drawings, and several nice nudes. Cho has won many awards including Eisner Award, Harvey Award, The National Cartoonist Society Award, and several others. Signed by the artist.
Out of print
Publisher: Monkey Boy, 2007
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 9x11
Pages: 80pg
Color: black and white
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