Author: Queenie Chan

FOLIO: Manga Fandom in Australia

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Happy New Year, everyone!

I want to let you know about a short comics-prose essay I wrote, called “Manga Fandom in Australia”. Click on the link to read it!

Page 1 of “Manga Fandom in Australia”
Page 2 of “Manga Fandom in Australia”

My essay, which was specifically written in comics-prose format (rather than comics format), is meant to be about the rather the under-documented Australian manga fandom. Why is it under-documented? The essay will explain why–at the end of the day, this country still maintains a fair amount of xenophobia towards Japanese-style pop culture.

This essay is part of a new government-funded Australian Comics academic project called FOLIO, which is spearheaded a group of Comics Studies academics at University of Melbourne, RMIT & UTS. This multi-year project aims to chart the contemporary Australian comics scene, and I hope to incorporate Australian game-comics like “Framed” and “Florence” into it as well in the next few years, which I am currently researching for my PhD.

Kookie Magazine: One In, All In

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In my third collaboration with Kookie Magazine, a magazine for girls aged 7-12+, I teamed up with aboriginal writer Gayle Kennedy to create a story about three young aboriginal girls. Main character Rosie, who has spina bifida and thus needs a wheelchair, and her cousins Daisy and Lily live a normal and active life, until something happens that has them fight for respect and their rights.

The Story of the Chinese Zodiac

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Some of the story illustrations I did for School Magazine! There’s more coming up, and it was lovely to work on. I get to experimental with different styles of art!

The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
There is an intruder in your house at night…