MICHAEL CHO

Michael Cho is a freelance cartoonist/illustrator based in Toronto. He is working on both children’s comics and adult trade graphic novels and illustrations.

On the children’s side, Cho is the illustrator of the popular Max Finder Mysteries, the childrens comic feature for Owl magazine. Cho inked My Dead Girlfriend Eric Wight and Tokyopop and a Robin and Kid Flash story for the recent "Justice League: The New Frontier Special" that came out from DC comics. He has also illustrated numerous other children’s books and countless children’s editorial illustrations as well.

On the adult trade side, Cho’s comic story Night Time was a finalist for a 2005 Canadian Magazine Award and he’s written and illustrated other comics which have appeared in Negative Burn, Project Romantic, Taddle Creek Magazine and other publications.

Cho is currently hard at work on writing and drawing a graphic novel of short stories which he calls his baby (see below for the synopsis of tentatively titled Five Pieces), as well as another childrens' graphic novel.

You can view Michael Cho’s work on his blog at
chodrawings.blogspot.com

And his monthly webcomics at:
transmission-x.com/_papercut.

In Progress:

Five Easy Pieces

Five Pieces is a graphic novel of short stories, intertwined in narrative. Introspective in mood, many of the stories feature Asian characters as leads, and the subjects reflect some of the challenges faced by Asian immigrants of all ages as they struggle to adapt to north-American life. However, the focus and intended audience of the book is not Asian-specific, and the book is meant to have a universal appeal. The hope is that the themes of the book have resonance with any reader who has experienced similar feelings of alienation, loss, hope and love.