Category: Art

Manga pages for a Contest Entry

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I haven’t done right-to-left manga for a while, so it was interesting to do these three pages for a Silent Manga Audition (17 pages in total). No expectations, nor is it my first time doing a silent manga. I do like the art though (it’s a lot of work).

I’ve current printing my Viz-published one-shot “The Mystery Cases of Sister Holmes” as a zine to sell at conventions. It’s a small thing, so it won’t be distributed online (you can see it has no ISBN).

Also, all the mystery yonkoma strips of Sherryford are collected into the back of this zine.

Read to Me : Dec 2025

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Hi all, I’m going to be doing my first “Read to Me“, which is a live-reading comics event where comic creators present their comics to live audiences by reading

It’s going to be on Tuesday 9th December 2025 @ 7:30pm, at Knox St Bar (near Central station in Sydney), and I’m going to be doing an extended version of my “The Chinese Goddess of Luck Doesn’t Exist” strip, which I posted on my Instagram on a whim 2 weeks ago.

As for what the extended strip is about, here is the LOL-short version. The actual version is about 45-panels long, versus the 5-panel long one I originally posted.

Here is the original 5-panel comic I posted on instagram. It got a lot of likes and compliments, so I’m reposting it here.

New Artwork & Educational Resources

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Hi all! I’ve been doing some more postings on Instagram and X in order to grow these accounts a bit and document more of my artistic processes. So here are some artwork I’ve been doing in order to get back into drawing manga more.

Most of these are character designs from the upcoming “Sunset Protocol“, which is a 2-volume, self-contained manga story I’m currently scripting. This is a supernatural mystery-thriller manga set in the same location as “The Dreaming” v1-3, and involves Jeanie from that series as a side-character (she is now 27, as it’s 13 years later).

I’ve scripted 9 out of 12 chapters, hopefully done in the next few months, so I’m looking to drop more character art soon.

An art test for the character of Eugene from “Sunset Protocol”. The guy’s an unhinged psychic and one of 7 people who is part of the same “found family”, which an outsider (our main character Maddy) runs into while looking for her missing cousin Jeanie (from “The Dreaming” v1-3). I treat these character artwork as a way to hash out these character’s personalities.
A look at what Eugene would look like in the environment of “Sunset Protocol”. This psychiatric hospital is an exact replica of the school from “The Dreaming”, so much of the decor is the same. This story is partly about a group of family with “found family” dynamics, and they’re pretty strange (there’s a backstory to this), but the way Eugene looks, he fits right in with the setting.
This is Eugene, another character from “Sunset Protocol” that is connected to Alex as a family member though they are not related by blood. Here, I’m testing the “seinen” art style I should use for “Sunset Protocol”. Since the characters are older and have a range of ages, this is a grittier-looking story than “The Dreaming” is. Hence the change in art-style.
This is an image of Alex. His last name isn’t given, but it’s actually Barrett. He’s the first person Maddy runs into when she goes to the hospital trying to find Jeanie, and yes, his bandages indicate that he is the result of a lab experiment gone wrong.
This is Maddy Lim, Jeanie’s younger cousin. She is the de facto main character of “Sunset Protocol” and a nursing student who begins the story looking for her missing cousin. I hope to do more art on her as we go on.
This is Minnie May and Daigo December. They are important characters in “Sunset Protocol” though their real significance aren’t shown until later on.

Firstly, my short story from Walker Book’s anthology “The Book That Made Me: What the Doctor Recommended” has been used as an Educational Resource. It’s is being used as an example of “Hybrid Text” in an English Studies teaching resource for Years 11-12 by the Education Department of New South Wales. Visit the Sample programs and resources in the “Year 11, Term 1 – Reading to write: Transition to English Studies resources” to download the teaching guides.

Those access my story are under the headings of:

  • Phase 3 – Hybrid texts – 11.1 (PPTX 1.7 MB)
  • Phase 3 – Representation – 11.1 (PPTX 3.5 MB)
  • Phase 3 – Sentence variation – 11.1 (PPTX 13.5 MB)

…And so on. Please access via the website links.

School Magazine Artwork – Jun-Nov 2024

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All corrections for my PhD are done, so now I’m just waiting for graduation. I’ve also finished a short story I’m working on for a major publisher, which will be up in January 22nd, 2025. It will have to go live on their website first, which I will then post a link to.

Below are some artwork I did for School Magazine in the second half of 2024. I’ve also submitted a short comic story to them co-written by my niece, which was rejected. I have the first page here.

“Retreat”, a poem by Beverly McLoughland for Orbit Magazine, July 2024

“Control Z”, a play by Sue Murray for Orbit Magazine, September 2024

“Columbine Magic Trick”, a short story by Peter Friend for Blast Off! Magazine, October 2024

“The Last Wish”, a short comic by Queenie Chan & Kelly Tao.
This was a rejected pitch for School Magazine in late 2024.