Throughout her childhood, Sorah Suhng moved around the world, such is the joys and pains of being a military dependent, visiting and living in such places as South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, and Guam. She's been exposed to some very rich cultures, accepting of all of them and taking positive outlooks from those experiences.

By the time Sorah entered her extremely impressionable years of high school, her family settled in the heart of Florida at Tampa, where she focused on her schoolwork, graduating at the top of her class and receiving over $65,000 in initial scholarships from Universities and Colleges worldwide.

Opting for something closer to 'home', she attended Florida State University on a full-ride academic scholarship. It was there that she got her first taste of collegiate life.

She always used her art to assist her in coping with day-to-day life and her academic endeavors. Heading several organizations for volunteer work, Sorah designed several noteworthy projects and presentations, some of which are still in use today.

Sorah Suhng, much to the surprise of contemporaries, never wanted to be an artist. While she was always artistically driven, when asked if she'd pursue an art career, she'd always answer, "Art is a hobby of mine. I wouldn't want my hobby to turn into a job."

But that all changed in the summer of 2006. Through the intervention of an online video game, where she was subsidizing her income with commissioned art, she found a market for her work and a joy for her craft. She also realized, that as her request box grew, she was enjoying the pressure, the deadlines, the overall rush of starting a piece, finishing it, and presenting it to her peers and fans.

Her life goal to be a socially-charged therapist, that she had wanted to do since she was thirteen years old, took a back seat for her passion for art.

In a series of fateful events, including a freakish, flash flood in her area, she landed back home in the heart of Florida, taking some time off of school and to realign her life towards her new drive.

Within a couple of months, with a new goal of pursuing her artistic career juxtaposed with her collegiate degree, luck and a little bit of fate pushed her in the right direction.

In August of 2006 she met with famed writer, illustrator, editor and inker Bob Layton (www.boblayton.com) at a local coffee shop.

"I'll be forever indebted to Starbucks."

After a nerve-racking interview, with Bob pouring over Sorah's very slim portfolio, he decided that she had what it takes to be trained as a cartoonist.

Joining the ranks of Bob Layton's former apprentices, which includes noteworthy creators like Sean Chen, Bernard Chang, Brett Breeding, and Paul Ryan - Sorah Suhng became his current art assistant.

To date, Sorah Suhng has been in a constant state of learning. Opting to not return to her home-school FSU, she made the difficult decision to stay in Tampa and attend University of South Florida to pursue her art training.

Sorah Suhng, dabbling in a bit of everything, has been hired for anything ranging from web design (she designed the new BobLayton.com), to web graphics (hired overseas to design several logos for advertisements and flyers), to original art commissions (see Gallery).

She wants to learn everything about the medium - from drafting, writing, inking, coloring, production, marketing, and anything else she could possibly pick up on the way.

With such an accomplished professional as Bob to guide her in those endeavors, he has opened the discussion floor with others to help her as well, including the colorist Ian Sokoliwski (www.ianthecomicartist.com) to gently guide and critique her digital coloring skills.

Even at such an early stage in her career, Sorah has high hopes and big goals. Being a woman with the knack for fulfilling her own wishes, she hopes to make a serious impact on the comic book industry, bringing in fresh, new angles, stories, and artistic vision.

"I want to blur the lines and refocus them, to make the reader really think about themselves and their lives. I want to avoid hand-outs and cop-outs. All of which, of course, I want to make entertaining - I just want to openly offer something beyond the superficial."