Jodi Tong was born in Houston, TX but grew up in Hong Kong since the age of two. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in cartooning in 2006. She's known to have an obsesseion with penguins (duh), kitties (double duh) and all things muppety. Besides drawing comics and pictures, she's usually found in the kitchen baking cookies and other yummy things.

Upcoming Attending Conventions: TBA

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Related Course Work
Digital Coloring, Develop an Animation Series, Children's Book Illustration, Storyboarding, Spot Illustration, Flash Animation

Skills
Computers: Proficient in Mac & PC. Basic Knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Flash MX.
Working knowledge of Illustrator, Flash 8 and QuarkXPress
Language: Strong knowledge of Cantonese and Manderin (oral and written)

Experience
Instructor Art n' Orbit (New York, NY) Sept 2007- present

Cartoonist, Purun New York Inc. (New York, NY) Feb-Oct 2007

Art Studio Assistant, cartoonists Matthew Madden and Jessica Abel, May-Aug 2004

• Designed class handout & online tutorial on creating mini-comics
• Maintained J. Abel's website, www.artbabe.com
• Cataloged art archives and pieces for art shows

Freelance Cartoonist/Illustrator, created commission work for individuals, Sept. 2002-present

T-shirt Designer, Mephit Furmeet 2003-2006

Online Cartoonist Lang Lang, July 2000-present

• Top runner up of 1st Annual Amazing Kids Comic Contest, Oct. 2001
• Top nominee for Best Anthropmorphic Comic of the Cartoonist Choice Awards, July 2001

• Anime Weekend Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)- Sept. 2006
• Furry Weekend Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)- Feb. 2004-2005, 2007
• Mephit Furmeet (Memphis, TN)- Sept. 2003-2007

• Rocket City Furmeet (Rocket City, AL) - May 2005-2006
• Anthrocon(Philadelphia, PA)- July. 2003-2005

Published Work
Wandering Trials: Dear Mom, Furnation Multimedia, 2007

• Pin up artist

• spot illustrator/ new talent

• Pin up artist

• Issues 3-5
• Editor and Illustrator