Category: Manga-Comics

Halloween Horror: Elevator

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Hi folks, I’m now back in Australia and back at work.

There’s going to be a slew of things happening this Halloween (a month-and-a-half away), and Bento Comics is going to make something especially for Halloween this year. So here’s a short horror story I started years ago, which I only got motivated enough to finish recently. It’s about… elevators, of all things.

The first 3-4 pages of the story was originally one of those “true stories” you read in magazines, where people write in about their “spooky experiences”. It seems that a fair amount of spooky experiences happen to firemen late at night. I’m guessing that among firemen who deal with people supposedly trapped in elevators, this one is a bit of an urban legend. The rest of it, however, is completely made up by me.

E-book in .epub format available at the site too. Look on the right hand side of the page for a link.

 
 

Elevator

Click to read on BentoComics.com

Odd Thomas: More

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Hi all! I’m currently living in Hong Kong (will be here for about 3 months), settling in and entertaining friends. I’ve got some news to announce nevertheless, and some picture to show. Lord knows, I’d like to start posting regularly on this LJ again, and here I am trying to get into the swing of things.

 
 

Odd Thomas 3: You may have read that there’s going to two more Odd Thomas books in this ICv2 report, and that I’ll be doing book number 3. Book number 2 “Odd Is On Our Side” will be out this Halloween, so I’ll be starting on book 3 in early August. Book 4 will be done by the talented Ikari Studio, and it’s just as well because I originally had to turn down book 4 because of an

 
 

Art I did for a short film: I did some art for a short student film at NIDA in Sydney, and while the concept is quite interesting, unfortunately the sci-fi nature of the story means that funding is limited and my part of the work can’t be completed (due to lack of funds). Still, I thought I’ll show you the art. These are just rough colour works, done in about 30 mins.

 

Movie girl - 1
This was my first design for a samurai sword-wielding young girl in a post-apocalyptic setting.

 

Movie girl - 2
But it turns out the director was looking more for something like this.

 

BentoComics.com – Princess Zelda

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Ah, the last story in this series. It happens to be a short story I did for a video-game anthology, based on Princess Zelda from the “Legend of Zelda” Nintendo Gaming series. Now, as a fan tribute it’s good fun, but because I don’t own this property, I’m just going to put it up on Bento Comics and let people read it (but not print it).

Rundown: Bento Comics is a new website that permits users to read and compile their own short story anthologies. It then prints the book at a printing company called Lulu, and delivers the personalised book to your door. A new publishing model, if you will.

Short Story of the Week: A short story seen from the perspective of Princess Zelda, and the wishes she makes to the Goddesses of Hyrule.

E-book: None, I’m afraid. It’s not my own property, so no e-book.

 
 

Princess Zelda
Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 
 

Well, this concludes my pick of short stories from the “Queenie Chan Archive” back on my website. It’s good to be back on my LiveJournal again, so I hope to be able to continue my weekly streak of posting something up. I’ve been working on a bunch of interesting things since the second Odd Thomas book ended, so watch this space for interesting developments.

 

BentoComics.com – A Short Ghost Story

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Well, this weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics is coming to a close. After this story, there’s only one more story before the whole 8-week run is over. It actually felt like a really, really long time.

Rundown: Bento Comics is a new website that permits users to read and compile their own short story anthologies. It then prints the book at a printing company called Lulu, and delivers the personalised book to your door. A new publishing model, if you will.

Short Story of the Week: One of my earliest stories, but one which still holds some power. Why is it that ghost stories always happen in girl’s toilets? Here’s one that I heard from my sister many years ago.

E-book: Available on the right-hand side of this page, where it says “Ebook Available in .epub!”. It’s DRM-free, and Epub can be read on all platforms EXCEPT the Kindle. I’d like to charge USD$0.99 for this story (like iTunes), but the system isn’t yet in place so you can download it for free.

If you don’t have an e-reader like the iPad or Nook, you an download e-readers for your PC – here’s 2 programs you can download: The Adobe Acrobat eReader, and the Barnes and Noble eReader.

 

A Short Ghost Story

Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 

I wrote this story after hearing a similar story from my sister, involving a girl’s school toilets that had no mirrors. It was the only toilets in the school with no mirrors, so naturally people “talked” about it. Girls seem to love telling ghost stories about isolated places in the school, and my own high school experiences were no different, except that no memorable stories came out of my high school stint.