Jo Chen


Jo Chen is an American comic book artist and writer best known for her highly detailed painted comic book covers. In the Japanese comic industry she is also known by the pen name TogaQ and is known as Jun Togai.

Early life

Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and emigrated to the United States in late 1994.

Career

Working professionally in the Asian comic book industry since age fourteen, she began her career in the U.S. comic book industry with her art work for the Racer X mini-series, part of the Speed Racer series published by Wildstorm/DC Comics in 2000.
She established herself producing interiors and covers for titles including Darkminds: Macropolis, Battle of the Planets, Robotech, Fight For Tomorrow, Taskmaster, The Demon, Thor, and Robin. Currently she is most well known to American comic readers as the cover artist of Runaways, and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine comics published by Dark Horse Comics. She will also participate on the Whedon-Dark Horse Angel book.
In other media, Chen has also produced packaging artwork for Microsoft's popular Xbox ''Fable, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Fable II and Fable III RPGs, and done covers for PlayStation Magazine.
Under the pseudonym TogaQ, she and author Kichiku Neko created the yaoi doujinshi-turned manga series, In These Words. The title was eventually picked up by Japanese publisher, Libre Publishing and serialized in the yaoi comic anthology, Be x Boy Gold''.
She is the younger sister of artist Christina Chen, and lives with her family outside of Washington, D.C.

Interior work

  • Racer X #1-3. 3-issue miniseries.
  • Darkminds: Macropolis #1-4. By Jo Chen and Christina Chen.
  • Robotech: Love and War. Jo Chen drew "Little White Dragon", a back-up story included in every issue of the miniseries. Also drew a cover for the back-up story of #6.
  • Battle of the Planets / Witchblade. Jo Chen assists her sister Christina Chen in the pencils of this one-shot crossover. Talking about the series in The Pulse in 2002, she said "Christina is the lead artist and I am only assisting with some minor peripheral characters that pop up in a panel crowd scene."
  • The Other Side of the Mirror volumes 1 & 2, JPOP
  • Speed Racer & Racer X: The Origins Collection trade paperback collection of DC/Wildstorm series
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: Always Darkest
  • In These Words volumes 1 and 2, Libre Publishing, TokyoPop, Taifu Comics, ImageFrame, Guilt Pleasure, HongSamut by Jo Chen and Kichiku Neko.
  • Cruel to be Kind Guilt Pleasure by Jo Chen and Kichiku Neko 2010.
  • Father Figure Guilt Pleasure, Libre Publishing, ImageFrame by Jo Chen and Kichiku Neko 2010 - 2014.
  • Maybe Someday Guilt Pleasure, Libre Publishing, ImageFrame by Jo Chen and Kichiku Neko 2015.

    Cover work

  • Speed Racer Presents: Racer X: #1.
  • Darkminds Macropolis: #1-#5.
  • Warlands: The Age of Ice: #2.
  • Battle of the Planets: Battle Book: #1.
  • Darkminds Macropolis: trade paperback.
  • The Demon: Driven out #1. The cover of the #2 of this miniseries was drawn by her sister, Christina Chen.
  • Fight for Tomorrow #5
  • Robin #115-117,119-120
  • The Taskmaster #2 of mini-series.
  • Runaways Vol. 1 #1-6, 8-10, 13-18 & Runaways Vol.2 #1-6, 9-10 & 19-30.
  • World Mythology: An Anthology of the Great Myths and Epics
  • Thor: Son of Asgard #7-12
  • Street Fighter. Jo Chen has done several covers for the "power foil" variant covers of the Street Fighter comic-book series produced by the UDON studios. Some of these covers were also used in some Street Fighter merchandising.
  • Serenity: Those Left Behind #2 - Kaylee.
  • Eva: Daughter of the Dragon.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #1-10, 16-30.
  • Serenity: Better Days trade paperback edition.
  • Rex Mundi #16.
  • Incarnate #1-3.
  • Darkstalkers Tribute hard and trade paperback covers.
  • Star Wars: Invasion #1-6.
  • Roaming Cadenza Kindle edition.
  • Serenity: Float Out one-shot.
  • Serenity: Better Days hard cover edition.
  • From the Pages of Hellboy: B.P.R.D. The Dead Remembered #1-4.
  • Samurai's Blood #1-6.
  • Kull: The Cat and the Skull #1-4.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine #1.
  • Angel and Faith #1.
  • Superman: Grounded Vol 1 #707.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine Volume 1: Freefall TPB.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine Volume 2: On Your Own TPB.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine Volume 3: Guarded TPB.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine Volume 4: Welcome to the Team TPB.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine: Spike—A Dark Place TPB.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine Volume 5: The Core TPB.