Background
Christy Lijewski was born in 1981 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Next Exit No. 4
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006U6ITZG/?tag=2022091-20
Next Exit No. 3 (Chapter 3: It's not me, it's you)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002O3BQXQ/?tag=2022091-20
Christy Lijewski
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She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sequential Artist
Career
As a young girl, she wanted to study paleontology, but decided to be a cartoonist after reading a comic during her middle-school years. A fan of American comic books, she enjoyed comics as an artistic medium, but did not feel a connection to the superhero stories. She watched a copy of the magical girl anime (Japanese animated cartoon) Sailor Moon, and became interested in anime and manga (Japanese comics).
She found manga appealing, because of the wide range of narrative genres.
Inspired by her "vivid dreams," focuses on two people, twenty-two-year-old Retrab and twenty-year-old Markesh, as they search for a door in a fantasy world. They eventually find one, but it is meant only for Retrab.
Upon going through the door, she awakens in a hospital from a coma while Markesh is still comatose. was also the genesis of Lijewski"s series, which Slave Labor Graphics began to publish in 2004. is an expanded version of the story in, the two even sharing the main characters Retrab and Markesh. She was then one of a few runner up artists to enter a deal publishing with Tokyopop, and has written as an entirely new series for release.
