I will be eternally grateful to Czech publisher Zanir for translating and producing this beautiful hardcover Czech version of “Fabled Kingdom”, and to the translator for their hard work on what must have been a very difficult title to translate. It’s a comics-prose story, so it couldn’t have been easy. Special thanks to Jan Schejbal for putting all this together, you were a pleasure to deal with!
You can buy the series on their website here: https://www.zanir.cz/bajne-kralovstvi/
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!
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.
Some exciting news: two anthologies that I have contribute to in the past has gotten some mild accolades. I contributed a chapter to both of them, and is very proud of having been a part of it–but most of all, I offer my congratulations to the editors who these respective books together.
These two books are:
I’ve had two other books come out in 2019, both of which are “anthologies that I contributed to.
