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Svetlana was born and raised Russian, and came to Canada at the tender age of 16. She finished high school here, then graduated Sheridan College with a three-year Classical Animation Diploma and is currently a freelance artist, as well as a fledgling North-American equivalent of a manga-ka. She has been in a love-hate relationship with comics and manga for several years now because she is too weak to break it off.

Svetlana has drawn for how-to-draw-manga books, RPG manuals, toy designs, animation, book covers and a bunch of online comics. She is an accomplished flake and has no attention span which makes writing coherent bios quite a challenge.

Hobbies include: sleeping and reading more comics than is healthy for her wallet. Also, sometimes, eating.

Recent and current works

07/29/2008 - Chapter 1 of Nightschool in Yen Plus Anthology

12/04/2007 - Dramacon 3; Tokyopop

10/31/2006 - Mangaka America; Collins Design. Contributing artist.

10/10/2006 - Dramacon 2; Tokyopop

10/11/2005 - Dramacon 1; Tokyopop

summer 2005 to summer 2007 - The Adventures of CG!; Cosmogirl

10/10/2003 to current - Nightsilver; Wirepop.com

spring 2003 to current- Chasing Rainbows; Girlamatic.com

2002 to current - Svetlania Weekly; Svetlania.com

2004 to current - Svetlania Wheneverly; Wirepop.com

Awards & nominations

2007 - Dramacon on the recommended list of YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens

2007 - Dramacon nominated for Special Recognition Eisner Award

2006 - MangaCast Yomi for best global manga of 2006

2006 - Dramacon nominated for a Harvey Award in the Best New Series of 2006 category

2005 - Dramacon named as one of Best Comics of 2005 by Publishers Weekly

Workshops & seminars

Schedule-permitting, Svetlana offers workshops and presentations at
libraries/schools. For Ontario, Canada bookings please visit Authors Booking Service for details. For bookings outside of Ontario please contact Svetlana directly.

Contact

Contact Svetlana.