I've finished my PhD, and handed it in! I'm also on page 200 (of around 240) for layouts for "The Dreaming" v4 - hoping to get that extra 40 pages done by the end of May or start of June. I was on the 2023 ALIA YA Graphic Novels shortlist for my Catherine the Great: Women Who Were Kings #4!
"The Dreaming" is out in book markets in 17 June for v2, and 27 August for v3. For comic bookstore, v2 is out 29 May, and v3 is out 17 July!
Vol1 of the new and revised "The Dreaming" from IPI Comics is out! For Australians, comic shops stocking it are: Impact Comics (Canberra), Dee's Comics (Canberra), Kinokuniya (Sydney) , Kings Comics (Sydney), Galaxy Bookshop (Sydney), All Star Comics (Melbourne), and Minotaur (Melbourne).
You can also get it in ebook and paperback on Amazon US or Barnes & Noble. Covers and revisions are listed here!
Free Reading: The first 3 chapters of "The Dreaming" v1.
Thanks to Illustrate Your Life and Jakub Mazerant for organising this exhibition I was part of in Thailand, with special thanks to the Australian Embassy! Over 30 Aussie comic artists were exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, and got a mention at the Bangkok Post and Coconuts Bangkok too. I was also part of the previous exhibitions in Poland and Germany too!
Here’s someone checking out my entry, with a stack of postcards featuring my crayon art of our lovely native birds.
The Jan2022 issue of School Magazine contains so of my favourite artwork that I’ve done for the magazine so far. It’s the story of the “Three Brujas”.
Here’s some artwork from the “Frog Viking”, a story that 10 year-old me would have absolutely loved. As an adult, I still like it a lot, and it was fun to illustrate too.
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.
Finally got around to posting my string of illustrations for The School Magazine! This is from the October 2021 and November 2021 issues, and these are not the only illustrations for them. It was great doing illustrations for some of these totally awesome stories.
