Christy Lijewski (born 1981 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American comic book artist and illustrator who specializes in OEL manga.
[1] As a young girl, she wanted to study paleontology, but decided to be a cartoonist after reading a comic during her middle-school years.
[4] Her short story "Doors" won a runner-up place in Tokyopop's 2004 Rising Stars of Manga contest.
"Doors" was also the genesis of Lijewski's series Next Exit, which Slave Labor Graphics began to publish in 2004.
She was then one of a few runner up artists to enter a deal publishing with Tokyopop, and has written RE:Play as an entirely new series for release.