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About THE STUDIO FOUNDER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, PUBLISHER, WRITER AND ARTIST

Achiru et al. (1988) was born in Alberta, Canada to Hong Kong immigrant parents, and grew up watching anime and reading manga from Japan. They live in Calgary with their spouse and new puppy.

She has been creating webcomics since 2002 and acts as the researcher, artist, writer, director and publisher of her own meta-physical comic production studio. The rest of her characters, or "cast members" are implied in the "et al." They engage in various philosophical discussions and play out hypothetical scenarios for social experiments, often involving romance, communication and gender.

 

Things you wouldn't know unless you asked:

  • Has two Bachelor Degrees in Socio-cultural Anthropology and Primary Education

  • Has lost both parents, lived through full body paralysis, chronic fatigue and depression

  • Celebrating her second year wedding anniversary in her artful home studio

  • The Mann and Lucky Channel was inspired by conversations with her asexual partner