Artist's dark lair

Curious about how Sau Lim's home studio looks like? Want to know what inspired him while he is drawing comic in the studio? Pick up Gempak 273 or Comic King 131 to find out.

Sin Chew Coverage

Projek Harapan- Artists for Japanese Earthquake Relief event was given a cover story treatment in Sin Chew Plus (30 Mar 2011). Lefty's Arale is being featured on the cover with Tan Eng Huat and Michael Chuah's contribution on page 2. Close to 30 exclusive artworks by Malaysian artists for this charity event are shown in this 7-page coverage. Sin Chew Plus is a magazine pull-out from Sin Chew Daily.



See our previous post for event details.

HOPE for Japan

Event: PROJEK HARAPAN - Artists for Japanese Earthquake Relief

Time: Saturday, April 2 · 10:00am - 5:00pm

Venue: The One Gallery, The One Academy of Communication Design, 28 Jalan PJS 11/28A

Organizer: Malaysian Mandarin Comic Society(MMCS), Comic Fiesta (CF) and The One Academy.

Michael Chuah, Tan Eng Huat Lefty & Chin Sau Lim are contributing each an exclusive artwork to the "Pray For Japan" Charity Event.

• Tan Eng Huat's rendition of Tatsuya Chiba's "Ashita no Joe".

• Michael Chuah with his version of Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy".

• Lefty's tribute to Toriyama Akira's "Arale".

All the artworks will be compiled and published as a mini artbook to go on sale during the event on 2 April 2011. On top of this mini art book, there will be other products going on sale during the charity event. All proceeds and donations from the following activities are going to the Japan Red Cross Society through Sin Chew Daily unless otherwise stated.

Activities:

-Sale of the Project Harapan//Hope Artbook

-Sale of Comic+Merchandise Goodie Bags

-Artist Marathon Fundraising

-Sale of Collectibles and Master Copies of Artwork

-Comic Artist Sharing Session

Supporting Organizations/Sponsors:

Art Square Sdn Bhd, United Publishing Sdn Bhd, Hup Lick Publishing Sdn Bhd, Gemilang Publishing Sdn Bhd, Litt Tak Sdn Bhd, Bandai, The Vision Engine Sdn Bhd, Big Bros Workshop and Genki Publishing.

Charity Drive for Japan Red Cross with G&B Comics

Gilamon is teaming up with G&B Comics for Japan Tsunami charity drive. Buy any of our Graphic novels (Major Zombie: Love & Loss and Six: The Rebirth) and 25% of the cover price will be donated to Japan Red Cross Society in aid of the tsunami victims.

More promotions from G&B Comics

• All IN-STOCK Graphic Novels selling @US$1 for S$1

• All IN-STOCK Merchandise @20% off.

• GnB Gift Vouchers

5% of proceeds from sales will go to the Japanese Red Cross

Venue: G&B Comics, Block 1 Rochor Center, #02-500 , Singapore 180001. tel: 6837 2280

Date: 17-19 March(Thursday to Saturday), 2011.

Time: Thursday, 12pm-10pm, Friday & Saturday, 12pm-8pm

Major Zombie: Love & Loss article in Animation Xpress

Click here for axapac.com's full write-up on Major Zombie comics and Gilamon Studio.

Major Zombie: Love & Loss reviewed in The Star

Major Zombie: Love & Loss graphic novel is reviewed in Malaysia's The Star newspaper on the 4th of March, 2011. The review is by Kaleon Rahan in the weekly Worlds of Wonder column.

Here are a snippet of the review: From Marvel Zombies to The Walking Dead, is there still room for another zombie-franchise? While both Marvel and Image releases are premised in a post-apocalyptic world where zombies are the dominant kind, Major Zombie exists on this equal landscape where he is also humanity’s main protector. The living dead protecting the living concept may take some getting used to, but give it a shot.

In case you feel that this is an effort riding on the curtails of successful zombie-related releases, it isn’t as there is chronological evidence to indicate that Major Zombie is very much original. Lefty’s labour-of-the-living-dead was created in 2003 (same time as the then unknown Walking Dead and two years before Marvel Zombies).

(To read the rest of the article, please to go to The Star Online.)

Click here for where to get the graphic novel.

Gempak's Coverage of STGCC 2010

Here are a few pics of Gempak magazine's coverage of STGCC 2010. It appeared on issue #269 (01 Feb 2011). Gempak is a leading anime, comics & games magazine in Malaysia. It is published fortnightly in Bahasa Melayu.

• Cover of Gemapk #269 (01 Feb 2011) featuring the art of popular Malaysian comic artist Zint.

• Page 1 & 2 of the article

• Page 3 & 4

• Tan Eng Huat

• Harvey Tolibao & Leinil Francis Yu

• Gilamon Studio

• Bottom left: Gempak Starz artist with a fan. Bottom right: Gempak Starz Creative Director Kenny Chua

• G&B Comics, Singapore