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Stephanie

Ms. Chan-tastic

About Me

I work in the comic book industry, mostly colouring related as an assistant to Holly Golightly, Laurie Kronenberg, Dave McCaig, as well as others. I also contribute and webmistress for a few comic book related websites, Blog@Newsarama and my baby, PulpArcade.com .
Man, the sidebar profile totally needs a Video Game section! I'm not really sure what else to fill out here. What do you want to know? Feel free to ask.
In my spare time I like video games, cooking and baking, gardening, and maintain a couple of websites including:
Pulp Arcade.com
Website: ComicBookGirl.com
AIM: StephChantastic
My new favourite commercial:
Pleats Skirt in a Pretz CM (Commercial)
Yan!
Pleats Skirt in a Pretz CM
Muuu!
Pleats Skirt in a Pretz CM
Oooh!
Pleats Skirt in a Pretz CM
WOW~!
Papipupepipopapopupupi pu!
Papipupepipopapopupupi pu!
I used this MySpace Editor.
If you are leaving a comment with an image, please be so kind as to keep it under 500 pixels wide, or else I will delete it. Thanks!
Sorry about that, but I don't have a widescreen monitor and I'd like my page to display well in a 1024x768 aspect ratio.

My Interests

• Adobe Photoshop
• Antarctica
• Art
• Aurora Australis
• Aurora Borealis
• Baking
• Birds
• Budgies
• Cake Decorating
• Cheongsams
• Cherry Tomatoes
• Cockatiels
• Colouring
• Comics & Manga
• Computers
• Cooking
• Dance Dance Revolution
• Dean Welsh
• Digital Art
• Fishnets
• Flatting
• Food
• Fruits
• Gardening
• Gund Snuffles
• Hayden Christensen
• Hello Kitty
• Katamari Damacy
• Kobuns (Servbots from Megaman)
• Leather & PVC
• Parrotlets • Plastik Wrap

• Podcasts
• Rez
• Snails
• Space Channel 5
• Sugarcraft
• Takara Cool Girls
• Tea
• Technology
• Video Games
• Video Game Art
• Video Game Consoles
• Video Game Related Goods
• Web Design
• Weird Things From Japan

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to study under a Japanese pastry chef.

Music:

Current favorite listens:
Holly Valance
Kylie Minogue
Ken Ishii
Towa Tei
Morning Musume
Bif Naked
Sophie B. Hawkins
Jane Siberry
Curve
Horrorpops
Yoko Kanno
Origa
The Johnsons
Gorillaz
Amon Tobin
Madonna
Dannii Minogue
Immaculate Machine
Kid Koala
Nancy Sinatra
Diana Krall
Tilt
God Lives Underwater
Autechre
And CBC Radio 3 is the only music radio I listen to. By the way, "Desire" by Holly Valance is my most favourite song ever!

Movies:

• Singin' In The Rain
• Aliens
• Iron Monkey
• Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
• Seven Samurai
• Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Television:

• Cowboy Bebop
• Farscape
• Futurama
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Good Eats
• IT Crowd
• Sailor Moon Live Action
• Sugar
• The Tick
• Twitch City

Books:

Love comics and sequential art! ^_^

Graphic Novels:
• Ghost in the Shell (Masamune Shirow)
• Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League
• Paradise Kiss (Al Yazawa)
• Mars (Fuyumi Soryo)
• Nextwave (Ellis, Immomen & McCaig)
• Strain (Buronson & Ryoichi Ikegami)
too lazy to list more

Instructional:
• Shikisai Ohkoku Color Kingdom vol 1, 2, & 3 (various)
• Herbs & Edible Flowers (Lois Hole)

Magazines:
• Elegant Gothic And Lolita Bible

Heroes:

Ayami Kojima
Chinese Pastry Chefs
Chinese Tailors
Jo Chen
Ikeno
Japanese Pastry Chefs
Plastik Wrap
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shinkiro
Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Tomomi Kobayashi
Game consoles my brothers and I own:
• 3DO
• Atari 2600 Video Computer System (black)
• Atari 2600 Video Computer System (wood panel) x2
• Atari Linx
• Colecovision
• Sega Dreamcast (black)
• Sega Dreamcast (japanese, white)
• Neo Geo Pocket
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Nintendo Game Boy Advance (white)
• Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP (cobalt)
• Nintendo Gamecube (black)
• Sega Game Gear x2
• Sega Genesis
• Nintendo DS (red Mario Kart edition)
• Nintendo Entertainment System x2
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo Wii • Playstation x2
• Playstation (Japanese)
• Playstation 2 x2
• Playstation 2 (Japanese)
• PSOne
• PSP
• Sega CD
• Sega Master System
• Super Nintendo
• Super Famicom
• Sega Saturn
• Sega Saturn Japan
• Xbox
I know, I'm missing a lot _

My Blog

Moose Jaw: that's where the owls are

Dean and I went to Moose Jaw last week for out 8th anniversary and to visit an owl sanctuary ran by our friend's sister-in-law. See the burrowing owls and watch me handle a dead mouse: Link t...
Posted by Stephanie on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:05:00 PST

Video Games Live (part one): I was Chun-Li

Video Games Live came to Edmonton and IT WAS SO AWESOME!!!! I feel like I can talk about it for a long long time! I love video games, I love the symphony. It was like a dream come true. I'll write u...
Posted by Stephanie on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:30:00 PST

Comic Legend Marty Nodell Passes Away

http://blog.newsarama.com/2006/12/09/martin-nodell-passes-aw ayIt was my very first time at the San Diego Comic Con. I managed to get an invite to a Diamond private party held outdoors. It was a lovely...
Posted by Stephanie on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:00:00 PST

What color lightsaber would you want?

I'd either go with a cyan-blue, or a Pink Hello Kitty Special Edition Lightsaber. Lucasfilm and Sanrio needs to team up.Yes, I'm burning out from overworking....
Posted by Stephanie on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:16:00 PST

Noo! Don't take away my underwear!

Victoria's Secret buys out Canadian lingerie giant La Senza or $710 Million!I love my Canadian underwear, fun pajamas, and urban yoga clothing! I am so sad! This is my reaction:Note: I like Victoria's...
Posted by Stephanie on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:56:00 PST

Stephanie Chan as Chun Li PHOTOS!

I just got my Halloween pics from the camera. I always wanted a Chun Li from Street Fighter costume. So I finally did the cosplay thing. Happy belated Halloween!...
Posted by Stephanie on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:02:00 PST

I'm getting a Lineolated Parakeet

Dean wanted to buy me a pet bird (he likes the idea more than having babies). We went to the bird show recently and found a local breeder of Lineolated Parakeets, who happened to have some newly hat...
Posted by Stephanie on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:55:00 PST

Taking a Vacation from online life

Sorry, I know that my messages are pretty backlogged (I haven't finished reading my inbox) but social networking is a low priority right now.I need to take care of some personal matters over the next ...
Posted by Stephanie on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:43:00 PST

Appearance at Comic Talks 2006

I'm going to make a little convention appearance at Comic Talks 2006 on Saturday October 14th at the "Inside the Industry" panel. It's a part of the Pure Speculation sci-fi convention....
Posted by Stephanie on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:55:00 PST

Thanks for the birthday wishes but..

...where are the presents!?!?!!Amazon.ca wish listThink Geek wish listChun Li Litho by Jo ChenVega litho by Jo ChenJust kidding, I don't need presents. You people are early with the birthday love but ...
Posted by Stephanie on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:23:00 PST