Wonderlands and Liquid Cities

Sense and sensibility vol 1 listed for Marvel's May solicits  :)

http://marvelousnews.com/index.php?itemid=12809

"Marvel’s best-selling adaptation of PRIDE & PREJUDICE, returns to Marvel with another Jane Austen classic: SENSE & SENSIBILITY! Alongside incredible artist Sonny Liew (My Faith in Frankie, Wonderland), Butler brings to life the world of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two daughters without parents or means, forced to experience hardship, romance, and heartbreak, all in the hopes of achieving love and lasting happiness. 40 PGS./Rated A ...$3.99"



The French edition of Wonderland is out in March, and last month Delcourt released volume 2 of  "Le Tour du monde en bande dessinée" (A World of Comics) which includes a story I did about Mas Selamat; quite an exciting thing to be included alongside creators like Gipi and the amazing  Carlos Nine! :p



Finally,  a review of Liquid City Vol1  at Popmatters. Vol2 due out in July! :)

San Diego Comic Con 2009

SDCC is about a week away, will have a Liquid City booth (Booth #2329) this year, right next to the Flight crew... others who will be there off and on include Shari Chankhamma, Mike Carey, Lefty and others... floorplan location:



Will also be at the Image booth from 2:30 - 4:30 on Friday (and probably the weekend as well), plus with Gene Yang and the Secret Identity folks from 12:30pm-2pm on Thursday( Epic Props/SI Booth #1735).

Liquid City Book Launch at KLCC

The book signing at KLCC Malaysia just about wraps up all the promotional shindigs for Liquid City for 2008. It's been lots of fun meeting all the artists involved in the project, but tiring as well; all this PR stuff requires a kind of disassociation i think, a projection of some self other than the one you're used to. Maybe in time the two will coalesce, but maybe not just yet :)



Anyway, the folks from Gilamon were there, including Kaoru who couldn't make it to the Singapore signing, plus Leong Wan Kok. Otto Fong made the trip across the causeway, and Tan Eng Huat and Pekomik's Muhamad Azhar Abdullah showed up to lend their support. Wan Kok brought his laptop along and it had all sorts of amazing works in progress on it... check out his website!



Lat was all PR-ed out  from all the signings he did for his new stamp collection, but he did join us for drinks afterwards, and it was great as always hearing him talk about his experiences :)



Above from left to right: Micheal Chuah, Kaoru, Keith Chong, Chin Sau Lim, Lat, Muhamad Azhar Abdullah, me, Tan Eng Huat and Leong Wan Kok.

an aside: watched "Bolt" in 3D today, the first 3D movie i'd seen since a Jaws sequel ages ago... it was an interesting experience, but after the first half hour I think you start getting used to the effects, and its back to old fashioned storytelling to sustain the show. Maybe Jame Cameron's Avatar will take 3D to its next step though, with the effects somehow becoming intergral to the story, who knows :)

The Half Flat show is in its final week; it'll probably be kinda sad when its time to take all the paintings down :p

The Half Flat Art Show

The Half Flat Art Show is on from Nov 29- Dec 30 at the Black Earth Art Musuem in Singapore. Original Comic Book Art and Robot Paintings on display, together with the works of another 3 illustrators :p



For more event photos, click here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=88943

For a show review:  http://www.liquidcitizen.net/temp/IS-reviewsmall.jpg



For Gilamon Studio's report of the Liquid City book launch at Kinokuniya Singapore, goto:

http://gilamon.blogspot.com/2008/12/at-liquid-city-launch-in-singapore.html

Press Release thingy

Press Release info for the Liquid City launch and the "Half Flat" Art show :

http://www.liquidcitizen.net/pressrelease3.pdf

The Anthology launch will be at Kinokuniya (Ngee Ann City) 2:00-4:00 PM on November 29 2008, and the "Half Falt" art show opening will be at the Black Earth Art Museum, later that evening at 7:30 PM.

Liquid City Website, Vertigoed and Other Stuff

Thanks to JF Koh, we've been able to put together a blog and previews site for Liquid City:

http://www.liquidcitizen.net

The anthology will be launched in November this year, and includes works by creators like FSC, Leong Wan Kok, Gerry Alanguilan, Troy Chin, kenfoo, Lefty, Drewscape and many others. Lat's participation though was particulary exciting, cos i grew up reading his comics, and books like Town Boy and Kampung Boy get better with every reading; you realise how much craft goes under the deceptively simple surface.

We'll be arranging for book signings at Kinokunikya in Singapore and Malaysia, watch... various spaces for updates :p





Speaking of Kino, recently headed there to get some new comics, and saw the Vertigo Encyclopedia; so the first thing i did of course was to see if they had any entry on My Faith in Frankie...and was surprised to find it did in fact get a whole page! :p



Finally me, Hong Teng,  Lun Cheak and Skan will be having a group exhibition of our personal and commericial works at the Black Earth Art Gallery starting November 29, more details once we've firmed up stuff :p