Frank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho, is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book creator, writer, and illustrator, best known for his series Liberty Meadows.
The second of three children, Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971, but moved to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Beltsville, Maryland. After graduating from High Point High School in 1990, he attended Prince George's Community College and was offered a scholarship to atten...
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Frank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho, is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book creator, writer, and illustrator, best known for his series Liberty Meadows.
The second of three children, Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971, but moved to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Beltsville, Maryland. After graduating from High Point High School in 1990, he attended Prince George's Community College and was offered a scholarship to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, which he declined because he disliked the school's academic focus. Cho ended up transferring to the University of Maryland School of Nursing, which he says was his parents' idea. Cho ultimately graduated with a B.S. in Nursing in 1996.
Cho received no formal training as an artist. He got his start writing and drawing a cartoon strip called "Everything but the Kitchen Sink" in the weekly Prince George's Community College Newspaper "The Owl" where he was also comics editor. He then started...
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