Malaysian Mandarin-language poet and cartoonist Sam Seen will be collaborating with Filipino writers for his next graphic novel project, tentatively titled The Other Side. Updates will be posted on this blog.
[Above image is a page from Sam's last graphic novel China X'perience (2006).]
MUD is a new alternative comic quarterly magazine that will be published by Typhoon Books, Thailand.
It will feature works by “Tum-kun” (Wisut Ponnimit) as well as other Thai comic artists.
I thought it might be fun if comic artists from other countries (Japan mainly, I guess?) would like to participate.
So if you like to draw comics and want to join the trip, you are invited to submit your work to Typhoon Books.
The address can be found at www.typhoonbooks.com
Please do not send originals. It would make our lives much easier also if you could scan your work and send it as a CD. The resolution should not be lower than 300 dpi. Your story should not be more than 20 pages. If your work is in languages other than Thai or English, please provide translations. Whatever you send will not be returned to you even if it was not selected to be published. The deadline is November 9, 2007.
Beware that the reward (money!) is not much. If you’re looking for fortune, look elsewhere. As for fame…well, who knows.
[Reposted from Prabda Yoon's blog.]
Southeast Asia has been a region long divided not only by geographical and cultural boundaries but by the question of identity and belonging. One anthology will attempt to present the shades of contemporary Southeast Asian experiences of cultural/sexual identity, globalization, immigrant/expatriate experience, third culture phenomena, and new technologies, among others.
The call for submissions is open to Southeast Asian writers and translators under 40 years old. The anthology will focus on works dealing with contemporary themes, or employing new forms in poetry; prose (fiction, travelogues, essays, blogs, text, etc); drama (one-act plays, short screen/teleplays); graphic arts and comics (under 30 pages long); and everything in between—literary experiments as well as genre works (horror, sci-fi, fantasy, etc, or combinations thereof). Works must be limited to 8,000 words and must be in English (translations must be accompanied by the original text). Previously published works are also welcome.
Please send submissions to this email address sealitbook@gmail.com , as attachments in MS Word document format. Please include a short bionote, email address, photo, web links and contact information, as well as the copyright notice for previously published and soon-to-be published work.
The anthology editors are Francezca Kwe (Philippines), Jerome Kugan (Malaysia), Mervin Espina (Philippines) and Rizadini (Indonesia).
The deadline has been extended to 8 November 2007 for the following countries: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Timor Leste, and for Southeast Asians based abroad.
