A mix of artwork from School Magazine, from Issues #8 and #10 in 2023. The stories are “Ice Girl” by Simon Cooke and “A Palace for Opal” by Katie Aaron. It’s always fantastic to be working with all these great writers!



AWARDS: I've won the Spirit of Zelda Award, from the Zelda Awards, which celebrates women in comics! It's in the category of +10 years in the biz, so thank you to everyone who voted for me! Congradulations to all the winners too! Watch the ceremony on Youtube. Meanwhile, "The Dreaming" v1-2 has also been listed on the NSW Premier Reading Challenge list! These lists are screened and once you get on, you don't go off, so hopefully I use get onto the reading lists of other states too.
NEXT MANGA: Editor got back to me on chapter 2 (of 12) of "Sunset Protocol", the supernatural mystery-thriller and quasi-sequel to "The Dreaming". Chapter 1 is done, and I'm halfway through chapter 2 (aim for mid-May completion). I'm sloooowly posting 2 pages a week on Instagram and my other social media.
SISTER HOLMES: I'm having nightmare issues trying to print "The Mystery Cases of Sister Holmes" (published by Viz) as a zine via IngramSpark. I don't know what's wrong, I keep getting random pages that are lighter than the others, so I've filed a complaint. I might have to use a different desktop publishing software entirely, which means I have to redo the layouts for the whole book *cries*. Delays all round! I worked with former Shonen Jump head editor-in-chief Hisashi Sasaki to produce this, and you can read it below or on BookWalker, and the yonkoma version here.
COMPETITIONS: I just submitted to 2 manga-related competitions, and now a new one has popped up. I have to pace myself...
INTERVIEW: Australian Comics History website FOLIO has an 8-part interview with me, talking about the history of the Manga fandom in Australia.
THE DREAMING: Buy "The Dreaming" v1-3 in print/ebook, via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Global Comix. Covers and revisions are here.
Awards: 2024 ALIA Graphic Notables List - YA Category, NSW Premier Reading Challenge list (vol1-2)
FREE READING: A short mystery story "The Mystery Cases of Sister Holmes" (67p) on Viz
A mix of artwork from School Magazine, from Issues #8 and #10 in 2023. The stories are “Ice Girl” by Simon Cooke and “A Palace for Opal” by Katie Aaron. It’s always fantastic to be working with all these great writers!



Here’s the latest book in the Women Who Were Kings series, Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia who presided over Russia’s Golden Age. Footnotes and art notes for the series are here.
You can buy it off my website, Amazon, Booktopia, online bookstores everywhere, and Lamont if you’re located in Australia.





Here’s the fourth and final installment of kid’s comic “Beating the Loneliness Monster” from Youkie Magazine in its July 2023 issue. Co-written with my niece Kelly, this is an awesome 8-page story suitable for kids aged 8-12, and for which Kelly has gotten a few fan mail about! Thanks to editor Nicky for making this happen!


Here’s some more School Magazine art, for issues 4-6 of this year. I’ll be doing some more great art for School Magazine in 2024 as well, so stay tuned!
Always great to work with awesome authors – in this case, the first is “Sai Wen Loses a Horse” by James Bean and Gillian Flaherty, and the second is “The Aeronaut” by Paul Malone.


I’m doing a manga workshop for FCBD at Manly Library, which is at 1 Market Place, Manly. It’s on the 6th May @ 1-2pm, so drop by if you’re free that day.
I used a video I did to post the announcement. It’s actually a Clip Studio screen recording, which when sped up and drawn in a certain way, looks like limited animation. It took a bit of planning, like the previous video with the girl in kimono I posted.