Alice Meichi Li (李美姿) is a

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and

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for comic books, magazines, and album covers."The Gallery: Alice Meichi Li"
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Early life

Li was born to immigrants of Chinese descent, and was raised in

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."Creative Spotlight: Episode #42 – Alice Meichi Li"
''Japan Cinema'' (2011-07-28), by Marcello Milteer They went on to major in

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, later switching to

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. While at SVA, they became the only Illustration student in their year to receive the Alumni Scholarship Award.SVA: Scholarship & Award Recipients
(retrieved 2012-05-31)

Bibliography

Covers

* ''

Elephantmen ''Elephantmen'' is an American ongoing monthly comic book published by Image Comics and written by Richard Starkings with art by Moritat and a number of other artists. Issue #1 was released in July 2006. Overview Some 200 years from now, the ...

'' #36 (

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

, Back Cover)

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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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* '' Rick and Morty: Lil' Poo-py Superstar'' #1 (

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, Variant Cover)

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Sequentials

* ''Reading With Pictures'' (

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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-nominated)"2011 Harvey Awards"
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'' (retrieved 2014-03-18) * ''Secret Identities Volume 2: Shattered'' (

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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* ''Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter'' (

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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Interior illustrations

* ''GirlsDrawinGirls Volume 4: The Way Nature Made Her'' (2011, Hardcover, ) * ''Once Upon a Time Machine'' (

, TPB, )

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-nominated) * ''Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History'' (

, Softcover, ) Crossed Genres Publications * ''Hana Doki Kira'' (

, TPB) The Year 85 Group

Magazines

* ''CMYK Magazine'' (2009) * ''YRB Magazine''"Art: Goggles"
. ''YRB Magazine'' (2011-12-20) (2011)

Exhibitions

Group

* ''Tripnotica NYC'' (2007) Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY * ''NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition''"The Birth of Quill"
. (2010-03-29) (2010)

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) is a not-for-profit arts organization and former museum in New York City devoted to comic books, comic strips and other forms of cartoon art. MoCCA sponsored events ranging from book openings to educa ...

, New York, NY * ''Alt.Comics: Asian American Artists Reinvent the Comic Book''"Press Release (7/26/12): Museum of Chinese in America to Open two Comics Exhibitions on September 27"
. (2012-07-19) (2012)

Museum of Chinese in America The Museum of Chinese in America (; abbreviated MOCA) is a museum in New York City which exhibits Chinese American history. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) education and cultural institution that presents the living history, heritage, culture, and ...

, New York, NY

Juried

* ''Gamescape'' (2011)

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, Baltimore, MD

Recognition

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: 2002 (Two ''Silver Keys'') * Worldstudio

AIGA The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a professional organization for design. Its members practice all forms of communication design, including graphic design, typography, interaction design, user experience, branding and identity. The ...

: 2002 (''W.K. Kellogg Foundation Award'') * American Illustration: 2007 (''Chosen'') * Applied Arts Illustration Awards: 2009 (''Editorial'' Category)"Applied Arts Mag - Awards Winners"
. ''Applied Arts Magazine'' (retrieved 2014-03-18) *

Harvey Awards The Harvey Awards are given for achievement in comic books. Named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman, the Harvey Awards were founded by Gary Groth in 1988, president of the publisher Fantagraphics, to be a successor to the Kirby Awards, which wer ...

: 2011 (Nominated, ''Best Anthology'' & ''Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers''), 2013 (Nominated, ''Best Anthology'') *

Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (SILA) was founded in 1953 by a group of Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural List of regions of California, region that ...

: 2008,"SILA Illustration West 46"
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'' (retrieved 2014-03-18) 2013 (''Silver Award'')

References

External links

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"Music, Genetics and Fantasy: An Alice Meichi Li Gallery"
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Ann VanderMeer Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor, and the second female editor of the horror magazine ''Weird Tales''. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantasy ...

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