1. Frank Cho was born on Duk Hyun Cho; 1971 and is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator, known for his series Liberty Meadows, as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil, Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment.
Frank Cho was born near Seoul, South Korea in 1971 to Kyu Hyuk Cho and Bok Hee Cho.
Frank Cho's parents had college degrees, but because they did not speak English well, they took whatever jobs they could to support the family.
Frank Cho's mother worked in a shoe factory, and his father was a carpenter during the day and a janitor at a Greyhound Bus station at night.
When Frank Cho was ten, his older brother, Rino, brought some comic books home, and Frank Cho started copying the art.
Frank Cho refined his abilities without formal training beyond some basic art classes.
Frank Cho's parents were not particularly supportive of Frank Cho's interest in art, so he placated them by transferring to the University of Maryland School of Nursing, which he says was his parents' idea.
Frank Cho wrote and drew a cartoon strip called Everything but the Kitchen Sink in the weekly Prince George's Community College newspaper The Owl, where he was comics editor.
Frank Cho signed a 15-year contract with Creators Syndicate, which he later realized was unusually long and, perhaps jokingly, blamed on having a bad lawyer.
In 1999, Frank Cho attracted controversy when, while serving as one of the jurors for the third annual Ignatz Awards, which are awarded to small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers, he nominated his own book Liberty Meadows.
The Comics Journal reacted to this by saying that this revealed some flaws in the Ignatz nomination system, but Frank Cho defended his decision, stating that in his opinion few of the submissions he received as a judge were deserving of nomination, and that the Ignatz coordinator he consulted instructed him to use his own judgment, as there were no rules against self-nomination.
Frank Cho eventually won two Ignatz Awards that year for Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Comic, and although he did not cast the winning vote, he called his self-nomination a mistake he would not repeat.
Marvel Comics' then-senior editor Axel Alonso, who had been impressed by Liberty Meadows, approached Frank Cho about revamping the third-string character Shanna the She-Devil, a scantily clad jungle lady who first appeared in the early 1970s, as a college-educated defender of wildlife and opponent of firearms.
Frank Cho, seeing possibilities, recast Shanna in a seven-issue, 2005 miniseries as an Amazonian naif, the product of a Nazi experiment with the power to kill dinosaurs with her bare hands but an unpredictable lack of morality.
However, Frank Cho has indicated on his website that Marvel plans to release a hardcover collection under its MAX imprint which will contain the uncensored artwork.
Frank Cho then penciled issues 14 and 15 of Marvel's New Avengers in 2006, and illustrated the first six issues of Marvel Comics' 2007 relaunch of Mighty Avengers with writer Brian Bendis.
Frank Cho is the plotter and cover artist of Dynamite Entertainment's Jungle Girl.
The Frank Cho image drew criticism from Spider-Gwen writer Robbi Rodriguez, who, while expressing appreciation of Manara's work, feared that such an image might drive away prospective female readers.
Sam Maggs of The Mary Sue criticized Frank Cho because the character Spider-Gwen is a teenager.
Frank Cho parodied the controversy by drawing the character Harley Quinn in the same pose on a sketch cover of that character's series.
In February 2016, Marvel premiered Totally Awesome Hulk, a series written by Greg Pak and drawn by Frank Cho which sees teenager Amadeus Frank Cho become the newest incarnation of the Hulk.
Frank Cho drew the first four issues of the series, his final page of which represented the end of his 14-year exclusivity contract with Marvel.
Frank Cho was then hired by DC Comics to draw variant covers of the first 24 issues of Wonder Woman as part of the company's Rebirth initiative.
At the time Frank Cho was writing and drawing another creator-owned book, World of Payne with his co-creator, Tom Sniegoski, for Flesk Publications.
Frank Cho produces his artwork on Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Pad, which has a vellum surface.
Frank Cho met his first wife, Cari Guthrie, when they served together on a student residence council at the University of Maryland.