Cheng Tju and I are organizing Singapore's first ever 24 Hour Comics Day! Sonny Liew will be there too!
http://www.singaporecomics.com/24hourcomicsday/
24 Hour Comics Day is a fun and creative marathon event that has taken place in many countries every year since 2004. Thousands of creators all over the globe have challenged themselves to each create 24 pages of comics in 24 hours.
It's happening here in Singapore on Saturday, 2 October 2010. We have a nice venue sponsored by School Of Thought, located at Queen Street, behind the Singapore Art Museum.
If you have ever wanted to create a 24-page comic story, here's the perfect excuse to do it, and it will only take 24 hours!
If you don't want to do this alone -- if you are an artist looking for a writer, or a writer looking for an artist -- get in touch. We'll help you find a collaborator.
JF
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
心愛的再會啦!
Moderating a session on rock and photography later this month and was talking to the artist, an old friend.
He shared that he was just like many of today's youth, listening to love songs because they had not gone through those emotions of heartbreak yet and were living those experiences through the songs. Which to him, in hindsight, was unhealthy.
My views on this is different. Music, like art, cinema and comics, is about sense-making. It gives expression to the transient moments that we try to hold on to but can't.
Life is often a conflict between what we want and what others expect of us. Music provides that solace and space to make sense of ourselves and our lives.
He shared that he was just like many of today's youth, listening to love songs because they had not gone through those emotions of heartbreak yet and were living those experiences through the songs. Which to him, in hindsight, was unhealthy.
My views on this is different. Music, like art, cinema and comics, is about sense-making. It gives expression to the transient moments that we try to hold on to but can't.
Life is often a conflict between what we want and what others expect of us. Music provides that solace and space to make sense of ourselves and our lives.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Kino Bestsellers Aug 2010
1. BLACKEST NIGHT
by GEOFF JOHNS
2. SIEGE
by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, OLIVIER COIPEL
3. BLACKEST NIGHT GREEN LANTERN
by GEOFF JOHNS
4. COLOR BLEACH PLUS
by TITE KUBO
5. UNWRITTEN VOLUME 2
by MIKE CAREY, PETER GROSS
6. BLACKEST NIGHT TALES OF THE CORPS
by GEOFF JOHNS
7. BLACKEST NIGHT BLACK LANTERN CORPS VOLUME 1
by JAMES ROBINSON
8. NARUTO VOLUME 48
by MASASHI KISHIMOTO
9. BLACKEST NIGHT RISE OF THE BLACK LANTERNS
by GEOFF JOHNS
10. WALKING DEAD VOLUME 12
by ROBERT KIRKMAN
We still need more info on the sales of comics in Singapore.
Something like these:
http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2010/2010-07.html
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18166.html
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18167.html
Analysis:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/category/sales-charts/
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18169.html
More info here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090428232014AAMhSaL
Talking to comic shop here recently, what sells in America doesn't quite tally here.
Eg. Kevin Smith's The Green Hornet was hot property in USA. But sales here was dismal.
Titles like X-Men still sell well, but at most 70 copies per issue for this particular shop.
Wonder how many copies a particular issue would sell in total in Singapore.
And who is the distributor these days for newstand copies?
In other news, the print run for 功夫 #1 was 27,000.
by GEOFF JOHNS
2. SIEGE
by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, OLIVIER COIPEL
3. BLACKEST NIGHT GREEN LANTERN
by GEOFF JOHNS
4. COLOR BLEACH PLUS
by TITE KUBO
5. UNWRITTEN VOLUME 2
by MIKE CAREY, PETER GROSS
6. BLACKEST NIGHT TALES OF THE CORPS
by GEOFF JOHNS
7. BLACKEST NIGHT BLACK LANTERN CORPS VOLUME 1
by JAMES ROBINSON
8. NARUTO VOLUME 48
by MASASHI KISHIMOTO
9. BLACKEST NIGHT RISE OF THE BLACK LANTERNS
by GEOFF JOHNS
10. WALKING DEAD VOLUME 12
by ROBERT KIRKMAN
We still need more info on the sales of comics in Singapore.
Something like these:
http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2010/2010-07.html
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18166.html
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18167.html
Analysis:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/category/sales-charts/
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18169.html
More info here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090428232014AAMhSaL
Talking to comic shop here recently, what sells in America doesn't quite tally here.
Eg. Kevin Smith's The Green Hornet was hot property in USA. But sales here was dismal.
Titles like X-Men still sell well, but at most 70 copies per issue for this particular shop.
Wonder how many copies a particular issue would sell in total in Singapore.
And who is the distributor these days for newstand copies?
In other news, the print run for 功夫 #1 was 27,000.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Atlas (Chuang Yi)
Alan Bay has a lot of potential as a cartoonist, if the comics on his website are of any indication his abilities. And Atlas, is his Mugen (Chuang Yi) feature.
Seeing the first few pages, it would seem that Atlas is a spoof of role-playing games, considering the popularity of MMORPGs at the moment. There is a page of character stats in the style of the genre. But reading on, the book does not seem to be poking fun at RPGs. Rather, it reads like an adaptation of an MMORPG; the Ragnarok kind, with cartoony drawings. Because I am not familiar with games such as Maple Story, I am unable to access the quality of an MMORPG manga.
This book is recommended for those who cannot get enough satisfaction from MMORPGs just by playing. When playing the game is not enough, read it. Oh yes, there is the pre-requisite chibi humour present.
Seeing the first few pages, it would seem that Atlas is a spoof of role-playing games, considering the popularity of MMORPGs at the moment. There is a page of character stats in the style of the genre. But reading on, the book does not seem to be poking fun at RPGs. Rather, it reads like an adaptation of an MMORPG; the Ragnarok kind, with cartoony drawings. Because I am not familiar with games such as Maple Story, I am unable to access the quality of an MMORPG manga.
This book is recommended for those who cannot get enough satisfaction from MMORPGs just by playing. When playing the game is not enough, read it. Oh yes, there is the pre-requisite chibi humour present.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Come back, PCK!
Phua Chu Kang should be retired; that is what many Singaporeans seem to believe. They say that he is outdated, and his humour is no longer fresh. Looking at how Marvel and DC have been for so many years, the complaints do not seem very valid.
PCK could have been honorably revived. DC and Marvel characters having been around for so long is a proof of that. It is just a matter of whether characters can be kept up to date. But by modernizing characters, the original essence of the character might be lost.
Spider-Man started out as a whiny everyman. He was nerdy, average in looks, failed with girls and was mostly average in every aspect, except that he has powers. Today Parker is still very much a whiny everyman, except that he is handsome, married a supermodel, and stands among the Avengers. Some things were definitely lost.
So it is not PCK, but those who write him that are at fault. They lack the creativity to find new directions for the character.
PCK could have been honorably revived. DC and Marvel characters having been around for so long is a proof of that. It is just a matter of whether characters can be kept up to date. But by modernizing characters, the original essence of the character might be lost.
Spider-Man started out as a whiny everyman. He was nerdy, average in looks, failed with girls and was mostly average in every aspect, except that he has powers. Today Parker is still very much a whiny everyman, except that he is handsome, married a supermodel, and stands among the Avengers. Some things were definitely lost.
So it is not PCK, but those who write him that are at fault. They lack the creativity to find new directions for the character.
STGCC update
The 1st batch of guests has been confirmed sometime ago. Let's hope more good news will come.
http://www.singaporetgcc.com/
http://www.singaporetgcc.com/
24 Hour Comics Day
2 October 2010.
The first time this is happening in Singapore.
More news to follow.
The first time this is happening in Singapore.
More news to follow.
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