Possession Graphic Novel

"Possession" is my big project for 2009. I've been working on the story since early 2008 and plan to publish it as a graphic novel of 190-plus pages before the end of this year.

The image above is a concept for the cover depicting Possession’s protagonist. After watching her family tormented and subsequently killed for their land, our 77-year-old grandmother is driven by rage to exact revenge on the murderers. While the story has in essence a straightforward action-revenge plot, I’ve introduced a psychological-supernatural twist to it, of which I won’t reveal the exact details to avoid spoiling the “fun”.

I will be posting the occasional highlights of the process of creating my first graphic novel, which will be a monumental task for me, since I’ve only been making short story comics of less than 10 pages so far. Do check back or better still, subscribe to my RSS feed for my next update. Have a productive and eventful 2009!

P.S. Any inquiries or words of encouragement are most welcome in the comments. Cheers!

New t-shirt: Jumpstart

My second t-shirt is off the blocks! Throw it on for a boost of energy to jump start those lethargy-mornings. Anyone who spots you in it will think you just had an adrenaline-bingeing session at the gym.

Available in different colours. Go buy it here:
http://www.cafepress.com/gada_jumpstart

For more designs go here:
http://www.gadacreations.com/mangada/buy.html

Random Sketch: Boy sitting over the side of a bridge with a burning note

This started off as a loose idea for a sketch of a boy holding something to wind down for the night. The end result turned out a little more detailed than my random sketches usually are and am quite pleased with it. It’s a pity I drew it on the back of a used text printout among some scribbled notes. I wonder why he set his grocery list on fire?

Fork in the butt

I was going through my pile of old sketches and abandoned comic-pages, when I came across this it totally cracked me up, like: "GAH-HA-HA-HA!". I think I did this 2-3 years ago and somehow lost interest in it. It was supposed to be an over-the-top gag comic. Maybe I prefer reading comedy comics more than making them.

Update Kodansha MIMC 2nd Competition

Looks like my entry for the MIMC 2nd Competition wasn't good enough. Yu Meng-Lin of Taiwan is the winner of the Grand Prize with her/his entry "Fairy Tale" according to ANN. Time to crawl back into my cave and recommence my manga training.

Sound effects

Everything is up in the air

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My comic entry for Kodansha MIMC 2nd Competition

I sent my "Beasts" comic (in pretty printed pages) to Japan to contest in the
Kodansha (one of the Gods of Manga publishing) 2nd Morning International Manga Competition and looks like it survived the initial rounds of intensive berating and criticism. It made it through to the final 31 and the winner and runner-ups will be announced next month. COOL!

Go have a peek at the high-standard work of the other 30 contestants: http://e-morning.jp/mimc/result2/english.html

Want to know what I look like?

Here's a self portrait of myself. Yes, really. The one on the right is me wearing my samurai-box-helmet, which I never fail to put on whenever I'm out and about.

Human body suits

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No, those aren't masks. They are everyone's favourite animals dressed up in human suits.

Cat Bird Dog

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A concept sketch of masked characters. A crow, a dog and a cat. Other obvious masks would be a snake, a monkey, a bear, a rabbit...

Work in progress

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Backgrounds and toning are a job for 4. Hard to make much progress when I'm 3 short. Time to sleep...

Up In Smoke

Dug this out because for no apparent reason I remembered that the car, or what's left of it, looks much better with the tires visible. What am I comparing it too? Go here and mouse over "The End".