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SMA24: Editorial Award for “Letters in Pictures”!

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Exciting news! I won an editorial department award from Japanese publisher Coamix, who hosts a silent manga competition called the “Silent Manga Audition” (SMA). This competition has been running for a long time, and SMA24’s theme was “Letters”.

My story “Letters in Pictures” didn’t win a cash prize, but it won an SMA Editorial Department Award, which is a recognition of excellence from the editors.

The comments of Editor Motoda was very kind: “It really made my heart flutter that what brought the two characters together was not words, but the things they liked. From the drawings, I could tell that the two characters had been thinking about each other, not just on the train, but in their everyday life. I also liked the wall filled with pictures of the two of them on the last page. Overall, I really enjoyed this piece!“

I’m considering entering SMA25, which has the theme “A Kind Heart”. Great practice for short stories, especially since it’s only supposed to be 6-17 pages long!

I won the “Spirit of Zelda” Award & NSW Premier Reading Challenge Listing

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Thank you to all who voted for me!

I won the first inaugural “Spirit of Zelda” award from the Zelda Awards. It’s for the category of 10+ years in comics, and the awards celebrates the outstanding achievements of women in comic book culture.

Congrats to all the winners. Here is the streaming video of the awards ceremony.

Of equal importance is getting “The Dreaming” v1-2 listed on the NSW Premier Reading Challenge List. These lists are screened by a panel, and once you’re on the list, you don’t really go off it, which is great. Hopefully i can leverage this and get the series listed in other Australian states too.

Nominated for the Zelda Awards & Interviews on Comic FOLIO

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I’ve been nominated for the Zelda Awards! This is a prestigious award for achievement of women in comics, and I’m in the “Spirit of Zelda” category for +10 years in the biz! I realise that few cartoonists make it to the 10-year mark…

You can vote for me here on the Awards website, no registration required.

This year, an academic website named Comic FOLIO tracked the history of Australian comics from the late 90s to the late 2010s. It included an 8-part interview with me, which you can access in full here.

I also did a comics-prose essay for the website a while back, and it’s there too.

ALIA 2023 Graphic Novels Shortlist + Global Comix Interview

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Two exciting things! My latest “Women Who Were Kings” book “Catherine the Great” #4 was nominated for the Young Adult section in the ALIA (Australian Library & Info Association) Notable Australian Graphic Novels of 2023 Shortlist.

It’s always wonderful to see libraries embrace graphic novels, especially local graphic novels by Australia creators. For Aussie comic creators interested in getting their works into libraries through library suppliers, here’s my guide on how to do it. Don’t underestimate the importance of libraries to books and book culture–they and librarians (whether they’re public or school librarians) are very, very important!

Secondly, the comics site GlobalComix interviewed me for Women’s History Month on “The Dreaming” and a host of my other work, so many thanks to Jackson and Nen for doing that and the live broadcast.

For those who don’t know, GlobalComix is the successor to Amazon’s Comixology, where people can read and upload their own comics/manga/graphic novels. They have an app, and Image and Top Cow also publishes on there, so it’s a great place to check things out on.

Click here for the interview.