Author: Queenie Chan

“Song Beastling” in Kookie Magazine

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Kookie Magazine, a quarterly magazine for girls 8-12, has released my latest 6-page story “Song Beastling”, written by myself and musician Yunyu Ong. It’s a story about a musical girl being haunted by a mythical Chinese beast the DiJiang, which is an actual “monster” entry in the ancient Chinese text Classic of Mountains and Seas.
And yes, it actually looks like a headless 6-legged beast with four wings – I’m not kidding. One of the cuter entries in a list of strange-looking cryptids that people once believed exist, retooled for the modern age.

Check it out at the Kookie Magazine website!

Exhibition: Australian Comics in Thailand

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Thanks to Illustrate Your Life and Jakub Mazerant for organising this exhibition I was part of in Thailand, with special thanks to the Australian Embassy! Over 30 Aussie comic artists were exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, and got a mention at the Bangkok Post and Coconuts Bangkok too. I was also part of the previous exhibitions in Poland and Germany too!

Here’s someone checking out my entry, with a stack of postcards featuring my crayon art of our lovely native birds.

More School Magazine Artwork – Jan-Mar2022

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The Jan2022 issue of School Magazine contains so of my favourite artwork that I’ve done for the magazine so far. It’s the story of the “Three Brujas”.

Here’s some artwork from the “Frog Viking”, a story that 10 year-old me would have absolutely loved. As an adult, I still like it a lot, and it was fun to illustrate too.