About

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Name: Nana Li
Occupation: Illustrator and comic artist
DOB: 08-12-198X
Location: Cambridge, UK
Special skills: Illustration, comic/manga creation, character design, biomedical engineering

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Trivia<

Comics: Sanctuary, Naruto, Bleach, Rin!
Movies: The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, V for Vendetta
Animation: Just about anything by Hayao Miyazaki
Music: X-Japan, Nightwish, Vienna Teng, Mucc, Ikimono Gakari, Kent, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Teresa Wong Huqin
Novels: Anything by David Eddings, Harry Potter
   


Work<

Publications

  • T Times - the Grand Prize entry in Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga UK & Ireland 3 competition (Amazon).
  • Another Summer Day - published in Mammoth's Book of Best New Manga 2 (Amazon).

Workshops

I offer workshops on manga and comic creation for libraries, schools and events in general in the UK. Please contact me for more information.


 

Past Activities<

March 2009 Manga workshops at Cromer and Aylsham libraries
Feb 2009 Manga workshop at Norwich Millennium Library
Nov 2008 Joint manga workshop at the V&A with Faye Yong
Sep 2008 Manga workshop for Tokyopop's MegaRecon in Doncaster
Aug 2008 Manga workshop at Wokingham Library
Dec 2007 Made 1st place in Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga UK & Ireland 3 with "T Times", my 18-page entry which at the moment can be read here.
Nov 2007 "Fairy Play", a short 5-page manga, was one of the winners in NEO magazine's manga competition. Read it here.
Oct 2007 My 20-page comic, "Another Summer Day" published in Mammoth's Book of Best New Manga 2. Sample pages can be found here.
Nov 2006 Interviewed by The Smoke.