Name: Shandra Koger (aka Shan, Sunshine, Boo, or any thing that is relating to Krispy Kremes)

Location: Uh… a little town named North, SC

What do I do on Cyberlight: I write, draw and color a little series called Lightning Prophetess and color other things here at Clight ^_^.

My interests: First of all ministry, studying the word, doing the assistant editor thing on the side with the Anime Angels Mangazene, watching anime, manga, shopping, making web sites, drawing a lot of stuff, talking to peeps, practically lives on my cell phone, playing video games, cutting up, chilling and just plain ol’ loafing around.

My dislikes:
People who are opinionated about the wrong thing
Arguing
Dirty jokes esp ones about God and the church
Hypocrites
Cold food
Overcooked food
Bad Chinese Food
Waiting in line in Wal Mart (20 registers but only have 7 open how messed up is that?)
Burnt up Krispy Kremes
Working weird hours on my job (such as getting up really early or going in really late)
Bad perms
Power Rangers (Just let them go….please they must die…)
Cliques

Favorite Bands and artists: Black Eyed Peas, Arrested Development, Israel and New Breed, Hillsong, Reliant K, Benjamin Gate, CeCe Winans, Vickie Yohe, Martha Munizi, and Kirk Franklin and whatever group he makes next.

Favorite Writer: Uh….I reads lots of books: Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Hagin, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Tite Kubo (Mangaka of the Bleach manga), classic stuff, and more books I may buy next week. Yes I am a closet bibliophile (a person who like books).

Favorite Hobbies: Video games, making websites, making pretty pictures for other people, learning new stuff for making websites, doing comedy, and learning how to do stunts w/ fight choreography.

My secret origin: Hmmmmmmmm………I was born in North, SC since 1982, I had an interesting childhood, did a lot of drawing when I was younger. I drew so much that well my folks had to hide my filler paper so I can have some for school. While growing up, I was teased a lot and other things happened so I retreated into my own imagination and created a lot of characters and stories to cope with a lot of things. In other words, for a season I used my art to cope with life.

When I got into high school I battled with depression at some points. When I was 15 I got saved at a Christian play (imagine that) and that was the beginning of the journey God had for me. A few months after I was saved, I still drew characters; I had a desire in my heart to do Christian comics. So I started to draw more and create short stories of my characters. And I did, numerous ones. Then I discovered Toonami on Cartoon Network and started to watch Anime. The more I got into the stories the more I saw the need for a really good Christian Cartoon. I was raised on Superbook and the Flying House. But to see a really nice Christian Anime as of yet is still a dream. So in between this I heard the call of God on my life for ministry, preaching and teaching and stuff. So for the first few years around 3 of them I struggled with doing a Christian comic because it wasn’t the ‘conventional’ thing to do. During this time I created a Spiritual warfare spy espionage story called Anointed Class G. And I worked on that heavily.
So I started to study a lot of weapons and armor and a lot of influences from watching some anime that I like one of them was Sailor Moon.

I had a dream of seeing more Christian cartoons but not just cartoons but comics and manga as well as video games in the main stores for the Gospel to be reached on a wider scale. So I started to learn more about animation, and stories, and how to make a comic.

When I went to college @ the University of South Carolina in 2000, I majored in English because I wanted to become a author of many books. During this time in my life, my own calling for ministry became more real to me and so, between the spiritual conflict of my own interests and the call of God on my life I had to stop drawing for a season. In about a few months later in 2001, I had a dream and the concept of LP was born.

So I started to create Lightning Prophetess. And the rest is history. Even to this day I still struggle with the use of comics and manga as ministry.

But the more that I have seen from Cyberlight and the emails that I received shows that there is a great need for more Christian Comics and Manga on the web. But not just on the internet but also in the mainstream society. We can witness to the world yet, not be caught up in the trapping of the world. And in the world of comics esp. Christian ones we must always keep our first focus and that is Jesus Christ and witnessing for Him. So I thank God for the unique opportunity to use those gifts and talents to build for the kingdom.

Future Plans in Comics: Finish up Hype of Betrayal (LP Side story) in the AA Mangazine, start drawing and publish the LP graphic novel (Lightning Prophetess Extended Version) by next spring, in a few months I am doing a short run series called, Demon Hunter Force 5, it’s a cross like Totally Spies and a little bit more slapstick than LP. Getting through Volume 2 of the online version of LP by Christmas (I hope). But most importantly, continuing to minister and make pretty pictures for Cyberlight ^_^

Favorite Bible Verse: Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. ­ Matt 6:33

Contact information:
Email: fireprophetessv20@hotmail.com, lightningprophetess@gmail.com
Websites: www.lponline2k4.com and my Deviant Art Site mizzshan.deviantart.com