Wednesday, February 23, 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.

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)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Women Manga Conference in Feb 2011

I'm involved in this. Do drop by if you are free.

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/jps/research/womens_manga_beyond_japan.htm

http://web.mac.com/happy_possum/iWeb/Women%27s%20MANGA%20Research%20Project/About%20Us.html

Weekly Bestsellers at Comics World

Dec 2010: December Batman The Dark Knight #1

Jan 2011:

Jan 6 week: Avengers Prime #5, Thanos Imperative Devastation One Shot

Jan 13 week: Spawn #200, Incredible Hulks #620, Batman and Robin #19

Jan 20 week: Amazing Spiderman #652, Batman #706, Brightest Day #18, Invincible Iron Man #500

Jan 27 week: Chaos War #5, Chaos War X-men #2, Uncanny X-Force #4, Uncanny X Men #532 and Fantastic Four #587


I was told Spawn #200 was a world sell out as well.
Thanks to Bill Teoh of Comics World. He's been in the business for more than 20 years - salute!

Comics World B1-22, Park Lane Shopping Mall 35, Selegie Road Singapore 188307. Tel/fax: +65 63396413. Email: comicswl@singnet.com.sg

Go buy your comics from them.

Kino Bestsellers Jan 2011

1. FABLES VOLUME 14
by BILL WILLINGHAM, MARK BUCKINGHAM

2. OURAN HIGH HOST CLUB VOLUME 7
by BISCO HATORI

3. GONE CASE GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK 1
by DAVE CHUA, KOH HONG TENG

4. HETALIA AXIS POWERS VOLUME 2 GN
by HIDEKAZ HIMARUYA

5. HOUSE OF MYSTERY VOLUME 5: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT TP
by MATTHEW STURGES

6. NEKO RAMEN VOLUME 3: CAT AFTER ALL GN
by KENJI SONISHI

7. ALCHEMIST: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL HC
by PAULO COELHO

8. CINDERELLA FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE TP
by CHRIS ROBERSON, CHRISSIE ZULLO

9. X-MEN SECOND COMING HC
by ZEB WELLS, MIKE CAREY, MATT FRACTION, CRAIG KYLE

10. SUPERMAN EARTH ONE HC
by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI, SHANE DAVIS

Nice to see Gone Case selling well. And now I know the 3rd vol of Neko Ramen is out. Cinderella is on the chart 2nd month running. Maybe I should check it out.