Graphic Novelist

"After reading Christine's books Cheat and Breaking Up, it occurred to me that she's doing a modern-day take on romance comics. Inspired by her work, and by classic romance comic imagery, I set-up the photo..."

-- From Seth Kushner's New York Graphic Novelists project.

Oh, I am back in town and am entrenched in the camp that is not-attending-San Diego-Comic Con. Since my return home from holiday two weeks ago, I've been keeping busy with urgent home projects and bouts of extreme laziness. I just love the summer and the city too much to do anything but lounge in cafes drinking sangria, take naps in the park, and curl up with paperback books! In a dreamy daze, I've been doing some small sketching and career speculating, having high hopes to work on new comics, perhaps another graphic novel on the side, occasional painting... le siiigh...

xoxo,

--christine

Secret Identity

Secret Identity: Asian Americans in Comics, originally uploaded by nyaafilmfest.

My alter ego has been compromised! It's true, despite all my recent posts of film and fashion sketches, I am at heart a comic book illustrator.

It's been almost a year since BREAKING UP was released, and I've only done a couple short comics-type things since then, but I do have quite a few things lined up for 2008. Unfortunately, I cannot release any specific information on these projects yet, but what I have on deck: two interesting anthology shorts, a one-shot super-hero thing, and a big surprise. Of my own. Of which I am writing as well as illustrating.

In the meantime, I will post as ever, my "matinee" sketches, random doodling, and the growing pile of mugshots of me. Including these from the 30th Anniversary Asian American Film Festival: SECRET IDENTITIES, comic book panel moderated by the charming Greg Pak, where we discussed the Asian American impact in comics and film.

(L-R) Jeff Yang, Pornsak Pichetshote, Christine Norrie, Larry Hama, Jennifer Lee, and Greg Pak

Illustrious co-panelists.

Talking about seven years as a comics professional!

Jenny turns a blind eye as I contemplate biting Elim Mak's noggin.

The Librarian Inside

Okay, I'm not a librarian, but I do love the books. This is a portion of a 13-foot long shelving system that I sketched out on paper and had installed onto my living room wall. It's done from lovely brackets I purchased from Anthropologie and three very long pieces of oak that I also stained. My inspiration came from the Beatles film Help!, specifically John Lennon's sunken bed w/ the four walls of book shelves. Oh, what a man, what vision. SIGH.

Anyway, because of my recent addiction to that damnable Facebook, I've gotten acquainted with the app Goodreads. So cute, but I absolutely despise how error-ridden it is. I swear, I added nearly half my book collection, thoughts, ratings, and guess what? It only showed ONE book in my "good reads". I'll figure it out one day... but for those who care, here I am:

Finally, FACEBOOK.

Like I need another thing to join! But, I shall do it for Mr. Sebastien... and you. Feel free to click the badge.