Here’s my cover and some of my illustrations for School Magazine‘s CountDown, April 2021 issue. I had great fun illustrating a story about a kid who loves illustrating cats. It’s cats, cats, all the way down…


I graduated last month, so my PhD is over and done! I'm also going to Thailand in May for a holiday. I've also submitted 2 short stories to the publisher Viz, and while both were accepted, the editor thought one had better potential, so that's what I'm working on doing the storyboards for right now--a fantasy action-romance. The problem is the other story, which was actually a simplified version of "The Dreaming" v4-5. Doing this simplification process was a huge challenge for more than one reason, because after I submitted it and was accepted (if not approved, since I'm doing the other story), I went back and re-read all the layouts I did for "The Dreaming" v4-5 and realised... they weren't good. One thing about turning a 500pg story into a 50pg one is that you're forced to cut off all the boring bits and focus on the most exciting and emotional parts, and after I did that in the short story (and am happy with the results), I found that the long form version is... full of talking and exposition. The thing is, it's not a problem with the PLOT--the plot remains as intriguing as ever. It's a problem with EXECUTION. I realise that the plot for "The Dreaming" v4-5 is still good, but the WAY it was being told was NOT. The story as it is now sets up a mystery, but the revelations come at the end of the story when it should come at the midpoint. I've already storyboarded 250 pages of it, but having done the short story version, I now realise it needs to be completely junked and started over. So I'm back to square one on this--on writing paragraph summaries for a plot outline. However, I'm concentrating on the approved short story first. In other news, the Viz one-shot stories are now all available on Bookwalker, a Japanese ebookstore, and you can read mine here.
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 or on BookWalker.
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
Here’s my cover and some of my illustrations for School Magazine‘s CountDown, April 2021 issue. I had great fun illustrating a story about a kid who loves illustrating cats. It’s cats, cats, all the way down…
On International Women’s Day on the 8th March 2021, my graphic novel series “Women Who Were Kings“ was celebrated by women’s empowerment organisation SheSaw and the shopping centre World Square in the Sydney CBD. I was one of twelve women hand-picked to have a commemorative portrait done of me, and I also gave a talk/interview about my biographical series.
Many thanks to the organisers at SheSaw, the wonderful artists who created my portrait (one of a series), the people who attended my talk, and to those who bought my books! I also want to thank World Square and the City of Sydney for hosting my talk.
The portrait series is at World Square, at the corner of George and Goulburn St. It’s smack bang in the middle of the CBD so you can’t miss it, and it will be there for the rest of March 2021!
There is also a SheSaw app that you can download from the app store, that creates a virtual statue (augmented reality) of me in the middle of World Square.
To use it, download it and locate my statue using the app, and then stand at the designated spot (which happens to be in front of the SuperDry store at World Square), then use the camera. You’ll see a virtual “pin” of a statue pop up that describes some of my achievements.
The exhibition will continue through Women’s History Month in March 2021! Visit World Square at the corner of George and Goulburn St in the city of Sydney to check out the portraits!
A double-spread illustration for a 2021 issue of The School Magazine about all the fun that can be had (and all the food that can be eaten) at Sydney’s iconic Luna Park! I had a lot of fun doing this one – very chaotic.
Here’s a cover I did in Aug2020 for the K-pop band 2NE1, which is having a graphic novel biography being made for them by Michael Aushenker. The art is base on their most popular music video “I AM THE BEST” from 2011.