I had a crazy February, with me finally being able to fix a massive problem that was taking up 3.5GB of space on my hosting service, but I'm also graduating with my PhD on Webtoons at the end of March I've been quite busy. I'm also looking to get back into doing some work on "The Dreaming" v4-5 (fell by the wayside after my PhD corrections last year), and also some more short stories.
My short mystery manga "The Mystery Cases of Sister Holmes" is now up on Viz for you 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.
All 3 volumes of "The Dreaming" is now available in print/ebook, via Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
It's also available to read onine from Global Comix, a wonderful creator-friendly e-comic site! Covers and revisions are listed here!
Free Reading: A short mystery story "The Mystery Cases of Sister Holmes" (67p) on Viz
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.
In my third collaboration with Kookie Magazine, a magazine for girls aged 7-12+, I teamed up with aboriginal writer Gayle Kennedy to create a story about three young aboriginal girls. Main character Rosie, who has spina bifida and thus needs a wheelchair, and her cousins Daisy and Lily live a normal and active life, until something happens that has them fight for respect and their rights.
