Gilamon@STCC

We are teaming up with SoraWorks and Zemotion to set up booths at the inaugural Singapore Toy & Comic Convention (STCC). STCC will be held @Suntec City Convention Hall 603, from 27-29 June 2008. Look for Pulp*Friction, Gilamon and SoraWorks' booth at F03 of the Artist Alley (next to Singapore Tourism Board) while Zemotion is just a few steps away at F09.

Here are what you could expect from us at STCC:
New T-shirts
- Our latest T-shirt series Major Zombie Black will be launched at STCC. It consists of 4 designs and all will be on sale during the con.

major zombie: santa

kaktus: hot & wet

skull o'skuit

the whole gang
(For those who won't be at the convention but still interested in our T-shirts, we will be announcing a way for you to buy them at Pipit soon. And we would like to thank you upfront for your support.)

Gilamon Art & Comics Collection - We will be previewing the collection of our art & comics in one big volume at STCC. There 200+ pages compiled in artbook format in conjunction with our MDeC IP Challenge Grant. It is not an actual publication yet so you won't be able to find it anywhere else but here.

Collectible Cards
- 4 exclusive pin-up cards will be produced specially for this event.

(top) gilamon's group artwork
(bottom) cannibal boy, private investigator by michael chuah


(top) major zombie by lefty
(bottom) agent raygunn smith by sau lim

Don't Panic Major Zombie pack (Malaysia edition)
- We will be giving away a limited quantity of the latest Malaysia edition Don't Panic packs, which feature Major Zombie on the front cover and all four designs of Major Zombie Black series at the back.


Also: Do check out Gempak Starz booth while you are at STCC. Gempak Starz's booth is B10, right between Tokidoki and Lego.

tribe 5th anniversary

Kosmo Interview

Lefty was interviewed by a Bahasa Malaysia daily Kosmo during the PeKOMIK MiniKon. It appeared in the 8th May Issue. His segment of the interview was about Malaysian comic scene in the 90's.

For those who missed it and also for those who could not read Bahasa Malaysia, here are the key points:

The major players in Malaysian comic scene during the 90's:
• Image Comics and the presents of mainstream(X-Men. Batman), and indie(Cerebus, Nexus) American comics and the booming of comics speciality shops(Mind Shop, Comics Corner, Final Frontier, Comixtra, Headmaster etc)
• The beginning of comic adaptations to Hollywood blockbusters (e.g Tim Burton's Batman)
• Comic book colouring being upgraded to digital colouring mainly from the Image titles, it changed the way comics are being coloured
• Manga invasion
• The present of internet
• The awareness of creator rights

If you have anything to add, feel free to drop a line. We are sure there will be a lot more.

On a side topic, Lefty were asked about the differences among comics by the three major races in Malaysia, which are the Malay, Chinese and Indians. To his opinion, Malay comics has more exaggerated expressions and the humour are more slapsticks while the Chinese likes cute and pretty elements (much influenced by the Japanese). Lefty could not comment on Indian comics because he hardly see any in the local market.

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

Click here for more pictures.

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.