Gilamon Studio

March 12, 2011

Major Zombie: Love & Loss article in Animation Xpress

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

March 5, 2011

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

February 27, 2011

SIX: The Rebirth reviewed on CBR

After Major Zombie: Love & Loss graphic novel is reviewed in CBR (Comic Book Resources) Comics Should Be Good column. On the February 24 in the installment, Sau Lim and Tan Eng Huat's SIX: The Rebirth is being reviewed as well.
SIX is available at G&B Comics (Block 1 Rochor Center, Singapore, tel: 6837 2280), Prologue @Ion and all Kinokuniya outlets in Singapore and Malaysia.

Here is part of the review by Brian Cronin:

In any event, once you get into the stories themselves, they’re engaging romps. Chin Sau Lim creates some interesting personalities for the police (and whoever designed their outfits – good stuff, very cool looking squad uniforms, as you can see on the cover). Also, as noted, Tan Eng Huat is an excellent artist, so he draws a very compelling action drama. Over-the-top action but grounded in human emotion. A Mecha goes nuts after the woman that the Mecha is based on also goes nuts (something about babies), so it begins to attack a hospital. The police show up and have to distract her while the other cops try to hunt down which person this particular Mecha was based on. It was a fast-paced race to the “finish,” and it was quite tense and exciting.

The second story, written and drawn by Chin Sau Lim, was a little more laid back. Chin Sau Lim is a fine artist, as well, and his moodier artwork worked well for a tale of revenge, just taken perhaps in the “after-life.”

(read the rest of the article here)

February 22, 2011

Major Zombie Love & Loss reviewed on CBR

Lefty's Major Zombie: Love & Loss graphic novel is reviewed in the 20 Feb installment of CBR (Comic Book Resources) Comics Should Be Good column. Major Zombie: Love & Loss was launch during the last STGCC and it is currently still available at G&B Comics (Block 1 Rochor Center, tel: 6837 2280), Prologue @Ion and all Kinokuniya outlets in Singapore and Malaysia.

Here is part of the review by Brian Cronin:

Every day this month I’ll be reviewing a different independent comic book, based on submissions from the creators of the comic books themselves.

The month continues with Major Zombie: Love and Loss, by Lefty and Tan Eng Huat, a real treat of a comic…

Gilamon Comics is a Malaysian independent comic book company founded by a trio of comic book artists: Lefty, Michael Chuah, and Chi Sau Lim. Recently, Tan Eng Huat (who has done a number of projects for Marvel and DC, including the very recent Thor: First Thunder series) has begun to work with them, as well. Tan Eng Huat draws the first of two stories in this magazine-sized, full-color magazine, while Lefty writes both stories and draws the second.

The gist of Major Zombie is as follows – a Superman analogue, Supreme-Man, gets turned into a zombie saving a young female adventurer. He has lost much of his original power, but he is still pretty darn powerful, and continues as a superhero known as Major Zombie, along with the female adventurer, Kaktus, as his sidekick (as obviously she feels indebted to him).

What’s interesting about this series is that Lefty, on his own, is a talented comic book artist. Here are a couple of his pages… (read the rest of the article here)

Visual Narrative, A Comics Workshop

Tan Eng Huat, Lefty, Chin Sau Lim & Michael Chuah is forming a tag team in a comics workshop. Each artist will speak about a topic in the area of creating a complete comics story and art. Here are the details:

Workshop title: Visual Narrative, A Comics Workshop
Date: March 12,13 & 19 of March, 2011.
Venue: BigBrosWorkshop, A12-2, Jalan Lumayan 1, Pusat Perniagaan Danau Lumayan, Bdr Tun Razak, 56000 Kuala Lumpur
Number of sessions: 4
Language: English
Who should come: You who shares the passion in comics as a channel of storytelling. Who has a basic knowledge to create your own comics and wants to know more.
Fee: RM250 (Early bird special: RM180 if registered before 3 March)
Registration contact: bigbros2007[at]gmail.com
Programmes timing and topics:

March 12, 2011 (Sat)
Session 1: Building the characters & background setting with Michael Chuah
Time: 10:30am - 1:30pm
Session 2: Thumbnail & paneling with Chin Sau Lim
Time: 2:30pm - 5:30pm

March 13, 2011 (Sun)
Session 3: Sequential art & dramatic composition with Lefty
Time: 2.30pm - 5.30pm

March 19, 2011 (Sat)
Session 4: Overview & preparing for submission with Tan Eng Huat
Time: 10:30am - 1:30pm

Contact bigbros2007[at]gmail.com for further enquiries.