Shout-out: Sungyoon Choi

DIGESTATE CONTRIBUTOR:

SUNGYOON CHOI!

Sungyoon Choi is an illustrator and a comic book artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She studied illustration at School of Visual Arts MFA program. In 2008 she illustrated the graphic novel “American Widow” for Villard press. Currently she's working on two other new graphic novels which will come out next year. Sungyoon also teaches “the Art of the Graphic Novel” at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

See more of her work at choiarts.com

Sample pages from Rabid Rabbit #13

Editor's note: Choi is yet another of the fantastically talented folks I met through freelancing at JWT. She's also a key component of the Rabid Rabbit anthology series (Lead Designer, to be precise) and a teacher of cartooning at SVA here in NYC. 

Shout-out: James Turek

DIGESTATE CONTRIBUTOR:

JAMES TUREK!

James Turek (left) drawing/winning the Finnish Comics Battle 2012!

The artist bio picture he wanted me to run, for some reason.

James Turek is an illustrator/cartoonist/comic artist and print maker whose work has can be seen in several publications such as Kinkimag (Swiss) Smoke Signal (NY) Kus! (Latvia) and Drops (Germany) to name a few. He is currently working on an English word book for Klett Kinderbuch, due out in Spring.

Nature Park Cages

Sample page from adaptation of Huckleberry Finn (for sale on his blog)

I teach a children's comic workshop a few times a year, give lectures(for adults) and show my work at various comic festivals as well as actively participating in the growing comics scene here in Leipzig, Germany. Beyond that, like so many, I am always searching for new ways to put FOOD on the table by doing what I love the most..drawing (and reading) comix! You can see more of my work at:

www.absoluteturek.blogspot.com

"The Creation Story" from Berlin's 'Radio As Paper'

Editor's note: James is one of the many, many fine folks I met through The Nursery at JWT (storyboards, animation, etc. for advertising campaigns). His gorgeous silkscreen of a Waffle House is one of my favorite pieces of artwork hanging in my studio. The colors and line quality perfectly capture the nostalgia I feel for an iconic establishment that figured prominently in my youth in the deep south. Most of the mini comics I have of Turek's are entirely silk-screened - every page! Insanity!

"Tractor Beam" from Leizpig's 'Drops no.4' comic anthology