All 3 volumes of "The Dreaming" is now available in print/ebook, via Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
It's also available to read onine from Global Comix, a wonderful creator-friendly e-comic site!
For Australians, comic shops stocking "The Dreaming" are: Impact Comics (Canberra), Kinokuniya (Sydney) , Kings Comics (Sydney), Galaxy Bookshop (Sydney), All Star Comics (Melbourne), and Minotaur (Melbourne). Covers and revisions are listed here!
In September, I'm doing 2 manga workshops and a panel for an Alphonse Mucha exhibition at the NSW Art Gallery this month, and going to Sydney and Brisbane OzComic-Con (see sidebar). Meanwhile, I've started to do layouts for "The Dreaming" v5 (this side-story is 2-vol, some sample art), but this has been put on hold due to some work I'm doing for a short story. In October, I'll be away for the whole months since I'll be holidaying in Korea!
Webtoon PhD News: Meanwhile, my PhD on Webtoons has come back with some corrections which will take 2 months to do--the verdict was out of 3 examiners, one liked it and puts it in the top 5% of PhDs, the second liked it but thinks it needs some minor revisions, and the third thinks it needs A LOT of revisions. As far as PhDs go, this "33% of examiners hate it" thing is apparently normal according to my supervisor, but I've got to spend 2 months fixing these issues before I can be awarded my PhD. Since I'm going to Korea for the month of October, I'll have to do the corrections in November. So busy.
Free Reading: The first 3 chapters of "The Dreaming" v1.
Here are some sample art from the first 20 pages of “The Dreaming” v4. It’s a supernatural-thriller-romance story, yes, it has very strong psychological-horror romance elements.
Now that I’ve let it sit for a bit and done some editing, it’s 250 pages, but that may change after I lay down the pages for v5 and look at the thing as a whole. As you can see, I’m going all-out with the art!
I finally finished my PhD, and was exhausted for the month of May. My PhD is going to be marked and there may be a tonne of corrections, so it’s not over yet.
I did do a brief 1-hour talk about my topic of “Capitalism, Creative Labour and Webtoons“, which you can see here at http://www.queeniechan.com/phd. I’ll put it out there more once I get it marked and I’m officially a doctorate!
On the other hand, I’ve realised I’ve yet to upload my art for School Magazine this year! Can’t believe I forgot, but I had fun doing all of these!
Two exciting things! My latest “Women Who Were Kings” book “Catherine the Great” #4 was nominated for the Young Adult section in the ALIA (Australian Library & Info Association) Notable Australian Graphic Novels of 2023 Shortlist.
It’s always wonderful to see libraries embrace graphic novels, especially local graphic novels by Australia creators. For Aussie comic creators interested in getting their works into libraries through library suppliers, here’s my guide on how to do it. Don’t underestimate the importance of libraries to books and book culture–they and librarians (whether they’re public or school librarians) are very, very important!
Secondly, the comics site GlobalComix interviewed me for Women’s History Month on “The Dreaming” and a host of my other work, so many thanks to Jackson and Nen for doing that and the live broadcast.
For those who don’t know, GlobalComix is the successor to Amazon’s Comixology, where people can read and upload their own comics/manga/graphic novels. They have an app, and Image and Top Cow also publishes on there, so it’s a great place to check things out on.
Click here for the interview.
Librarian Marissa King from the ALIA (Australian Library & Information Association) Graphic Novels Group interviews me about “The Dreaming”, thanks to Iurgi for setting this up.
Libraries are very important for preserving the works of Australian creators, and I have here a link that will teach you how to list your comic with Australian library suppliers (NB. If you don’t have an Australian distributor, your work MUST go thru a Library supplier to get into a library).
Here is the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/64ac9152062a1f00115dde8c
