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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.

Fundraising for WIRES

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Here’s an A4 piece of #AustralianBushfires charity art I did for the “Toons 4 Wildlife“ exhibition, to raise money for WIRES due to the horrific 2019 bushfires last year.

It’s organised by Mark from TIPPETTURES and The National Cartoon Gallery in Coffs Harbour, and the exhibition runs from the 22nd Aug 2020 ~ 25th Oct 2020. Please visit and buy a few prints to raise money!

Sales: If you want to buy a print of this, please contact the National Cartoon Gallery to arrange it. All proceeds will go to help Australia wildlife and WIRES.

This piece is an A4 digital piece, and its first print was sold on opening night. There will be more postcard prints made of it to further the fundraising cause, and be sold as part of collections.

Award Nomination and Educational Nods

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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: