Tag: fantasy

Small Shen – Chapter 2

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Happy 2014, everyone! I hope you all had a good time this year, especially the New Year’s parties. I had a super busy month/week – I’ve been writing the eight short horror stories I’m intending to publish in prose and comics-prose format, and I’ve now finished illustrating two, and written five. I’m close to finishing the sixth one in the next few days, so I’m way thrilled by the progress!

Anyway, I’m posting chapters 2-3 of “Small Shen” up, at the same time because I’ve noticed I’ve been a bit slack with my website posts (yikes). I’m also posting this on my DeviantArt and Tumblr accounts.

Anyway, for those who don’t know, this book was published by Harper Voyager in 2012. It was written by Kylie Chan, and adapted/illustrated into ‘comics-prose’ form by me. It’s a prequel to Kylie’s best-selling Chinese fantasy series ‘White Tiger‘, with 19 chapters of 75,000 words total, 9 of which were converted into comics-prose.

You can purchase “Small Shen” here with free International shipping, or buy it as an ebook on Amazon.com.

You can also download the original prose version of the 9 comics-prose chapters, along with the comics-script version of the work.

 


Click here to read the First Chapter!

I wish you all a great 2014!

Small Shen – Chapter 1

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Merry Xmas, everyone! In time for Xmas, I’m posting the first 3 chapters of “Small Shen” for people who haven’t read it. I’m also posting this on my DeviantArt and Tumblr accounts, and this is intended to finish as a series on the 10th January.

Anyway, for those who don’t know, this book was published by Harper Voyager in 2012. It was written by Kylie Chan, and adapted/illustrated into ‘comics-prose’ form by me. It’s a prequel to Kylie’s best-selling Chinese fantasy series ‘White Tiger‘, with 19 chapters of 75,000 words total, 9 of which were converted into comics-prose.

You can purchase “Small Shen” here with free International shipping, or buy it as an ebook on Amazon.com.

You can also download the original prose version of the 9 comics-prose chapters, along with the comics-script version of the work.

 


Click here to read the First Chapter!

Merry Christmas, you all! A Happy New Year too!

We Are The Pickwicks – Repost

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In case folks missed it, I’m re-posting my 10-page comics-prose story from a while ago. It’s a ‘twisted fairy tale’ take on the story of Peter Pan, and it was originally written for a Peter Pan anthology my friends and I put together.
 
Here I show it again, for your interest. Next week, meanwhile, I’ll be showing the first 3 chapters of “Small Shen.” I’ll be posting 10 pages every Friday (from 22nd Nov 2013 – 10th Jan 2014) in various places such as on my DeviantArt, Tumblr and my Goodreads Account, so hope you guy who haven’t read the extract will check it out!
 

Click on this page to read “We Are the Pickwicks“!

BentoComics.com – Keeper of the Soul

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Still at my weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics, and this week we have a… story that isn’t quite one. Yet. You’ve all heard the story – the Magnum Opus that kinda dies in the making because the creator got distracted; the 20-volume story everyone has in them at the start of their career, before they move onto other, better things… Still, worth reading as a “mood piece”.

Rundown: Bento Comics is a new website that permits users to read and compile their own short story anthologies. It then prints the book at a printing company called Lulu, and delivers the personalised book to your door. A new publishing model, if you will.

Short Story of the Week: A little girl sits with her family inside their fortress, when a loud knock is heard through the door…

E-book: Available on the right-hand side of this page, where it says “Ebook Available in .epub!”. It’s DRM-free, and Epub can be read on all platforms EXCEPT the Kindle. I’d like to charge USD$0.99 for this story (like iTunes), but the system isn’t yet in place so you can download it for free.

If you don’t have an e-reader like the iPad or Nook, you an download e-readers for your PC – here’s 2 programs you can download: The Adobe Acrobat eReader, and the Barnes and Noble eReader.

 

Keeper of the Soul

Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 

This is The Story That I Just Can’t Let Go Of, because it has such a great beginning. It may have been drawn years ago, in 2003, but even then, you can tell that fantasy (cloaks and great halls and weird costumes) is one of my favourite genres to draw in. I simply throw a lot of time and energy into drawing Fantastical Settings, probably because I feel that’s where comics really outshine other storytelling mediums. It can take 12 hours and 1 person to draw a really evocative landscape in a comic strip, while in a movie it’ll take a team of animators and millions of dollars for an equivalent. There’s just no match for the springboard reality comics provides.