I'll be guest at the manga and graphic novel-themed GenreCon on 21-22nd Feb, doing panels and a manga one-shot/yonkoma workshop, so book your tickets here. Also, I've finished scripts of "Sunset Protocol" v1-2, the quasi-sequel to "The Dreaming"! This is still a supernatural mystery-thriller (set in the same location), with 12 chapters + 1 epilogue (around 500 pages total). While I'm happy with the ending, I'm currently editing the story and starting to draw some of the opening chapters to work out the look of the story. I post all my weekly page progress on social media, but please follow me on Instagram since I post the most on there these days (see sidebar for my other social media). More details on that as I continue work on it, still very preliminary right now. I also entered a 4-panel gag manga contest, which gave me some ideas for doing some detective yonkoma with my Viz one-shot character--now "Ms Sherryford" since she's not a nun in this yonkoma. You can read them here here.
My short mystery manga "The Mystery Cases of Sister Holmes" is on Viz to read online. I worked with former Shonen Jump head editor-in-chief Hisashi Sasaki to produce (now at Viz's One-shots program), and you can read it here or on BookWalker.
“Ms Sherryford & Father Watson” is a mystery-themed yonkoma (4-panel) comic strip that revolves around characters from my Viz one-shot “The Mystery Cases of Sister Holmes“.
In this evolution, the main character is no longer the nun “Sister Holmes”, but “Ms Sherryford” (a sleuth and member of the Third Order), which gives her the Sherlock hat. Father Watson remains the same.
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.
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.