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| So who is this Catherine and
why she doesn't update that regularly? |
name: Catherine Yen
nationality: Taiwanese-American
education: biology/archaeology at Cornell, biology
at MIT (not Manchester Institute of Technology)
occupation: research associate in biology
hobbies: drawing, reading, baking (cooking sucks
if you only cook for yourself), web design
current project: working on the official Yen Shui-long
site
these are a few of my (current) favorite things:
books - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (all
time fav), Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
movies - Lawrence of Arabia (all time fav), 2001:
A Space Odyssey, Mononke Hime (Laputa
is a close second), Indiana Jones series (not Temple
of Doom though), My Favorite Year.
comics - Tintin series by Herge, Slam Dunk and
Real by Inoue Takehiko, Nausicaa by Miyazaki
Hayao, Black Jack by Tezuka Osamu, books by Will
Eisner, Doraemon series by Fujiko F. Fujio, Yamadataro
Monogatari by Morinaga Ai, Ghost Mum Investigator.
tv series -Stargate SG-1 (yes, I'm a geek!), Law
& Order, The New Detective, The Story
of Perrine (super old cartoon from late 70's).
subject - archaeology (the best part is digging in the
trenches) and art.
artists - Yen Shui-long (of course!), Monet, John Singer
Sargent, N.C. Wyeth.
places - Taiwan, Greece (everywhere I went but especially
Halai/Theologoes, Sesklo, Tripoli, Mistra, Meteora, and
Delphi), Bali, Italy (Ahhh, Florence! NOT Venice), Germany,
England (Dorset, Oxford, and Bath especially), Istanbul,
Virginia.
sport - cross country running and tae kwon do
want to visit - Australia, Petra, Cyclades, Eastern Turkey,
Morocco |
When do you update?
Ideally, it should be once a week on Sunday, but combination
of a full time job and other projects (not to mention
being a perfectionist and the need for inspiration/motivation
to draw properly) make it harder for me to update. I am
trying to figure out how be more efficient and build a
buffer so eventually I hope I can update more reguarly.
Right now, I try to update once every other week for Down
(between Sun and Wed). Bamboo Princess is updated whenever
I have the time. If you want to know when I update, give
me your email address and I'll contact you when I update
the site/comics.
When are you going to update Another Date?
That story is on hiatus. Yanwen and I like the concept
of the stories and I think the characters are so cute.
Unfortunately, we're both busy with other stuff, and we
lost interest in it. Hopefully, someday we'll pick it
up again because it should be an interesting story to
tell. Go bug Yanwen since it's her turn to draw. Heehee. |
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| Down but Not Out was nominated
for "Outstanding Use of Black and White" at
the 2004 Buzzawards. |
