Double feature
Alright so there was really nothing much going on in Weeks 4 and 5. I finally finished that sequel of the Onion Method, which I owed for like, a whole year.
Then I wrote some more Alexander Comic stuff, but that’s not a thing I want to discuss openly atm. Regardless of my past transparency about my process, especially the development of this book, I am feeling more precious? sacred? about Alexander. So I am gonna be all ~secrety~ about it, till I finish the first full draft of the script.
Anyway, the government announced another extension of the lockdown. Which means… my residency isn’t officially happening this year!! This is really it. This is the last of my travel plans for 2020 that fell to the dust. What a year it’s been! I remember writing in my several notebooks late in 2019 about my enthusiasm for the Travelling and Wandering and Exploring I had planned to do this year. Guess I am still doing that… within the four walls of my home.
But yeah. A short update this time. Till next time.
Reimena Yee is a graphic novelist, artist and flamingo enthusiast.
She creates the webcomics The World in Deeper Inspection, and The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya; the latter of which is the first Malaysian graphic novel to be Eisner-nominated.
Currently writing and drawing a whole bunch of stuff. Is a nerd for all things spooky and historical.
Melbourne / Kuala Lumpur
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somewhere along the line, the call for diverse characters in publishing mutated into "don't be diverse or you'll do it wrong and the straw man browns will cancel us all" and it all stems from not having poc people in higher-up positions
After many lockdown-related delays I am finally doing my in-the-middle-of-a-rainforest arts residency!! (itβs local) Not for fun though: I have three GNs at different stages with looming deadlines ππ
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