Popcorn Submission

Popcorn, a new english artbook magazine by Gempak Starz is opened for submission now. Please click on the jpg image below for the details.

Pekomik Mini Convention 2008 Part 3

Day 7 Sat 12 April 2008

Gilamon had a forum today, sort of an introduction to the Pekomik members. For those who missed it, here a what we've shared in point form:
• Who we are (see the top panel of this blog hahahaha)
• We formed Gilamon despite already working in Art Square Creation(Except for Michael, who left Art Square about a year ago but he still submits comics here), an established publisher with a string of successful comics and magazines because the works of Gilamon is very personal, experimental and most of the time not very commercial.
• Gilamon may be a very indie/underground kind of set up but we have no problem working for the mainstreams as professional comic book creators and illustrators. Like Warren Ellis who have a string of super hero comics published by Marvel("Iron Man", "Next Wave", "Astonishing X-Men") while continue to release personal works such as "Strange Killings", "Fell" & "Anna Mercury".
• We want to apply comics art in other medium. We contribute to design magazines, collaborate with designers, take part in design conferences, put up booth at rock concerts, sponsor clubbing activities. We also have a series of street wear.


l>r: Fans at Gempak Starz and MNU booth respectively


l>r: Gempak Starz forum with comic dept editor Sau Lim & Gempak editor Ayour • Komikoo forum with editor Roy "Fluffy" Ablah

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Pekomik Mini Convention 2008 Part 2

Day 01 Sat 5th April 2008

The artists gallery at the lobby of PWTC


l>r: People began to arrive • Pekomik Mr President rappin' • Cartoonist Shem entertaining the audience


l>r: The audience in Bilik Kedah/Johor • Pekomik PC with Mr Jaafar Taib • Not many artworks would make Mr Jaafar Taib squat but Baba Chuah's is certainly at that level


l>r: Mr Prez doing his bit for the comic banner • The beginning of the banner with art by Nurie with idea by Hafidz • Kids love comic


l>r: Nurie attracting the ladies • Mr Siow from MDeC talks about IP Challenge 2008 and showing passed winners' works

Pekomik Mini Convention 2008 Part 1

Pekomik, Malaysia's very own comics society, will be launching its inaugural comics convention on the 5th of April, 2008. The mini con will be held during KL International Book Fair from 5th-13th April at Putra World TradeCentre(PWTC).
Gilamon will take part in the attempt to draw the longest comics banner in the history of Bolehland, and also to have our own session on the 12th of April sometime between 2pm-8pm (Will update a more specific time here as we confirmed from Pekomik).

For those who want to meet us and a string of very talented local comic book artists and creators, please come over. Gilamon will be there at the launch this Saturday morning, to chair a session on the 12th of Apr and also the final day (13th) comic book artists gathering. We will also be selling our latest mini comic, entitled "Black Xmas" for only RM4.90 during the con.

Here are the comic banner that Lefty and Sau Lim did.

What are you waiting for? Start drawing!

We are honoured to be part of the Start Drawing community. Start Drawing is a portal for showcasing and sharing drawings from talented artists in Asia, and in the process, promote the joys of drawing.

Moovable Event

Here are photographs from Get Mooving: Moovable Art 2008
02.03.2008, Palate Palette Kuala Lumpur 5pm to 10pm

Left to right
1 Gilamon 3-sters and DJ Jonvu
2 Michael and Sau Lim printing the tee while Lefty took this picture
3-4 Some of the displayed mini posters


From left to right
1 Chun Woei of Urban Creatures hand painting his creature
2 Jay Lim Design
3-4 Lestat

From left to right
1 Black Fryday
2 Plushism
3 DJ Jonvu spinning (Go to Yellow Cockroach Design for his line of apparels)


From left to right
1 Michael and his collection of chic pics part 2,592: Yisuen
2 Part 2,593: Eos(not related to any Canon digital camera) and Tutu5
3 Left to right: Yisuen, er a friend, Mike & Ivory (forever happy) Pipit, Mike Gilamon and Vivian Jay Lim Design

Left to right
1 Turn up for the night was rather impressive
2-3 The Moovable mobile, Honda Jazz with sticker design by some of the local designers

Movable Art 2008

Gilamon will be doing a live demo at Movable Art 2008. The event will be held at the very cozy Palete Palette on the 2nd of March(Sun). There will also be poster showcase and art installations.

Here is an interview published in conjunction with the event at AFM's site. AFM (After Five Movement) is the main organizer for Movable Art 2008.

AFM: Gilamon was formed out of…

Gilamon: … passion in comic book art.

AFM: Who leads the team?

Gilamon: We work as equal share partners. We vote when we need to make a decision.

AFM: How long does it take for you to produce a four-page comic strip?

Lefty: Forever, or 2 weeks. Depends on my day job, really.

Sau Lim: It depends on how complicated I want the drawing to be; average time should be around 1 day plus minus.

Michael: 1 day penciling, 1 & half day inking

AFM: What do you have on your drawing table?

Lefty: A light box and some pens and pencils. I like to lay everything else(reference books, extra paper, comic books, CDs) on the floor and keep the drawing table "clean".

Sau Lim: This is quite an embarrassing question for me to answer. My drawing table well, is a just a tea table with the diameter slightly bigger than A3 paper, and because of the original surface was missing; I have to replace it with a piece of glass. With a light bulb underneath to convert it into a mini drawing table with the feature of a light box. What's on my drawing table? Nothing.

Michael: Paper, drawing tools & my iBook laptop.

AFM: Define your unique style.

Lefty: I know I should have my own style a million years ago but unfortunately I don't think I have. Maybe its because I am not very happy with my current style. Why don't you all have a look at my works and tell me what you think my style is :)

Sau Lim: Dark and shadowy with heavy texture rendering.

Michael: A little bit of trendy, a little bit of humour, a little bit of violence & lots of cutey! I so-called it "cutey pop".