Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives (Cultural Studies) - Softcover

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Queenie Chan was born in 1980, and is an artist who specialises in OEL manga. In 2004, she began drawing a three-volume mystery-horror series called The Dreaming for LA-based manga publisher Tokyopop. Since then, she has collaborated on several single-volume manga with best-selling author Dean Koontz, with their books reaching the New York Times Best Sellers list. Small Shen, her prequel to Kylie Chan's best-selling White Tiger fantasy series, was published in late 2012. Queenie's website is /www.queeniechan.com/. Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou is a lecturer in Japanese studies at Monash University and she holds a PhD in Japanese applied linguistics. She is the author of a number of articles in this area and a book, Online Communication in a Second Language (Multilingual Matters, 2012). She has previously worked with Cathy Sell on the translation of an art exhibition catalogue, and contributed a title on manga for the MWorld application. Cathy Sell holds a PhD from Monash University where she currently teaches translation and Japanese. She is a NAATI accredited professional translator specialising in fine arts and popular culture. Her primary research interests relate to multimodal communication, including translation and semiotics in Japanese art museums, manga as an intercultural medium, and sign language teaching and learning.