San Diego Comic Con 2017

San Diego Comic Con rolls round this week, I'll be there and attending some panels, here's the list below :)

THURSDAY July 20

AUTHOR SIGNING: First Second Books
12:30pm - 1:30pm Booth # 2800

PANEL: Writing From Life: Making the Personal Relatable
3:00—4:00 Room 29AB
Poignant stories often come from a place of truth, but once you've lived through something, how do you turn it into a piece of art that you can share with the wider world? Moderator Jessica Tseang (comic book historian) aims to find out with panelists Sonny Liew (The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye), Eduardo Risso (Dark Night: A True Batman Story), Gemma Correll (The Worrier's Guide to Life), Lewis Trondheim (Poppies of Iraq), Brigitte Findakly (Poppies of Iraq), and Tillie Walden (I Love This Part).

FRIDAY July 21

PANEL: Biographical and Autobiographical Comics
10:00a.m. - 11:00a.m., Room: 28DE"
A spirited conversation about the spaces between fiction and non-fiction with cartoonists who have worked in fictionalized memoir (Mimi Pond, The Customer is Always Wrong), fictionalized biography (Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan), biography (Box Brown, Andre The Giant), and memoir (Sarah Glidden, Rolling Blackouts).

AUTHOR SIGNING: Pantheon Booth
 2:00-3:00pm, Booth # 1515-I

SATURDAY July 22

AUTHOR SIGNING: Pantheon Booth
12:00-3100pm, Booth # 1515-I

PANEL: SPOTLIGHT on Sonny Liew
4:00pm to 5:00pm Room 29AB

Sonny Liew discusses his Eisner-nominated The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, his three-continent journey to find sources of creativity, the comics culture in Singapore, and his collaborations with Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Superman) and Paul Levitz (former DC publisher), who will moderate the conversation.

AUTHOR SIGNING – DC Comics
6:00pm-7:00pm Booth #1915
With Paul Levitz

SUNDAY July 23

PANEL: CBLDF Live Art Jam
12:15 - 1:45 p.m. Room 5AB
Celebrate creative freedom by seeing art made right before your eyes! The CBLDF Live Art Jam brings together a variety of comics artists, including acclaimed creator of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye Sonny Liew, award-winning March artist Nate Powell, New York Times bestselling artist Chris Burnham, zine and webcomics revolutionary Liz Suburbia, and other special guests who will make art on the spot and share their perspectives on censorship and the creative process. Watch live art being created, learn about censorship, and bid to win the pieces made during the panel! All proceeds benefit the important free speech work of CBLDF.

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The Art of Charlie Chan Hocky Chye was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2016 in the Comics category :)

"The history of Singapore and the history of comics are blended in this tour de force that follows the career of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, an imaginary Singaporean cartoonist. Liew mimics styles from manga to comics strips, as Chye tries to find his own voice while adapting to the shifting social and political climate. "

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Meanwhile, the Singapore Writers Festival is almost over, but I'll be on one more panel with Gosho Aoyoma on Sunday 13 November, so do drop by if you're in town  :)

https://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/nacswf/nacswf/programme-listing/festival-events/TWO-COMIC-ICONS--GOSHO-AOYAMA-MEETS-SONNY-LIEW.html

TWO COMIC ICONS: GOSHO AOYAMA MEETS SONNY LIEW

DATE / TIME 13 Nov, Sun 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM VENUE The Arts House, Chamber

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Finally - a variant cover for IDW's Revolutonaries #1 featurong Rom the Space Knight and a mouse hole from Tom and Jerry :)

The Repast

Variant Covers for IDW's new comics featuring the Transformers, M.A.S.K and more - one G.I. Joe one still to do!

These have been a lot of fun to work on - cartoons I grew up with after all. Everyday day after school one of the highlights of the day was coming hope to watch the 6:30pm cartoons on T.V.

The opening sequences for the shows still hit the spot many years on, though the actual episodes themselves maybe don't quite hold up. Scott from M.A.S.K. was essentially the cartoon equivlent of Wesley Crusher :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLS2N9mHWaw

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Links to the titels with the variant covers:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/idw-optimus-prime-1-variant-covers-by-sonny-liew-andrew-griffith/36171/

http://www.newsarama.com/31140-idw-publishing-december-2016-solicitations.html

http://comicsalliance.com/idw-mask-1-covers/

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Stranger Times

Unofficial Stranger Things Comic #3

Inspired by this Guardian article's comments: "One likely reason for this flight to the past is the obstacle that modern technology poses to plot lines. Mobile phones, the internet and widespread CCTV have made contemporary mystery stories increasingly hard to write. An interesting exercise for viewers of the opening episode of Stranger Things is to imagine how the vanishing of Will Byers might have been achieved so mysteriously if he were carrying a cellphone."

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Watched Netflix's 80s nostalgia fest Stranger Things last week, and had the sometimes-occuring whim to do some comics inspired by the show.

It was probably Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen on the soundtrack that gave it the icing and the cherry :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWz0JC7afNQ

The Singapore Comics History Crowd Source

Hoping to crowd source for information on Singapore's Comics History :)

http://bit.ly/22C8RHE

The link above leads to a Google Doc that anyone can add suggestions and comments to. Please help fill in things you feel are missing or erroneous :)

With feedbackfrom fans, creators, publishers and more, hpoefuly we can have a more inclusive history of local comics :)

ps: The categories and placements are all tentative, we'll reoragnise things once we have more information at hand