Time flies and Comic Embassy is now at its second month, featuring veteran artists Foo Swee Chin and Alan Bay. There’s an interesting line-up of programmes including a character design workshop by Foo Swee Chin and a comics panelling workshop by Alan Bay..
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Much to the woe of students and even more so, teachers, June holiday is coming to an end. The busiest term of the year is about to kick in while new threats of Deltacron and (hopefully not) monkeypox looms. But fret not! Because there are many many…
The Sg Cartoon Resource Hub’s first onsite project is to promote Singapore produced comics and comic artists for six months from June to November. The soft launch of the Comic Embassy is on 11 June, Saturday, at 3 pm at Tekka Place.
Time and tide wait for no man. I had wanted to interview some of the early pioneers of Singapore comics and especially those of different ethnicity. One of them was K. Ramesh…
Welcome back to issue 5 of SG Cartoon Resource Hub. This issue is an exciting one as it is packed with interviews featuring both local artists (Sean Lam and Germaine Lim) as well as overseas artists (Harmony Becker and Jillian Tamaki).
Recently, a group of students in the junior college I’m teaching conducted a survey on the reading habits of youth. Among a hundred over responses, only one indicated that they read comics. While it is possible that a small sample size may have yielded…
A friend once said, “Singapore comics cannot make it!” Well, is that a fact or a myth? And what does Singapore comics mean to a Singaporean?