Saturday was the first open public day for the Singapore Toys and Comic Convention, a kinda sorta report here:

http://sonnyliew.livejournal.com/10957.html

and

http://sonnyliew.livejournal.com/11096.html

here’s the official website for the event:

http://www.sgtoyandcomiccon.com/

I’ll be at booth F08 for sunday as well :p

My first podcast, thanks to Chris at cindycenter.com, with lots of ahs and uhms :p

 http://www.cindycenter.com/

http://www.cindycenter.com/SonnyLiewFinal.mp3

The anthology is also coming together, with lots of great work from everyone:

http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/05/08/welcome-to-liquid-city/ 

Started a site to act as some sort of online studio, though unfortunately the others in the upcoming show aren’t too keen to jump on :p

 http://studiorobota.blogspot.com/

Press coverage! :p

At Culturepush and the MDA newsletter…

Re-Gifters made it onto the Best of 2007 list at Comicsworthreading and was amongst the Best Original Graphic Novels at the Glass Eye Awards.

Just wondering what happened to my friend in the states Amy Oh who was starting a bakery in New York but seems to have gone AWOL… If you read this Amy, send me an email! :p

On work matters,  a new review ofwonderland:

http://www.comicrelated.com/review/wonderland.html

Posted some new sketches here for the moment :p

Also got the new Spectrum in the mail, Malinky drawings on pages 86 and 87! :p

Wonderland 5 is out… Disney has also announced plans for the trade, apparently the flyers say its going to be  “a beautiful, collectible, jacketed hardcover graphic novel.”  Price  $19.99, release date July 2008,  ISBN  1-4231-0451-X! :p

Have been putting together an anthology featuring South East Asian Creators (alone or collaborating with artists from elsewhere), titled “Liquid City“.

Things are moving along, with contributions from the likes of Lat, FSC, Shari Hes, Leong Wan Kok and Jon Foster. A partial list of contributors here. I’m working on a story with Mike Carey, as well as a new Malinky Robot short. Watch this space for more updates! :p

One of the most inspiring fellow students at RISD was a senior called Vincent Valdez, who did all these amazing paintings inspired by his own chicano background.  I’ve been wondering what he’s been up to since, and recently got an email from a friend about his latest project. Its a doozy!

I’m trying out this skype thing, so anyone else using it my email is sonny123@singnet.com.sg

I’ve been really wanting to get more involved with the illustrator’s community here in Singapore, and the recent OIC Portrait Day seemed like a great place to start. Only i got the dates all wrong and missed it completely. The term for this i think must be Blur Sotong :p

Anyway, been buying lots of books for reference material for the next Malinky Robot. one thing I would like to find are english translations of Shigeru Misuki’s WW2 stories. Any leads?