Women are comics' new draw

The male-dominated comics scene is seeing more women artists, thanks to publishers wanting different kinds of stories

A Manga Lover's Tokyo Travel Guide (top) by Evangeline Neo and Coming Home (above) by Tita Larasati. Independent publisher Difference Engine - whose team includes (from far left) editor Sophia Susanto, publisher Felicia Low-Jimenez and marketing mana
Independent publisher Difference Engine - whose team includes (from left) editor Sophia Susanto, publisher Felicia Low-Jimenez and marketing manager Josephine Tan - is launching comics such as The Makers Club: Game On! and Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma.
 PHOTO: DIFFERENCE ENGINE
Independent publisher Difference Engine - whose team includes editor Sophia Susanto, publisher Felicia Low-Jimenez and marketing manager Josephine Tan - is launching comics such as The Makers Club: Game On! (left) and Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma (right). PHOTO: DIFFERENCE ENGINE
Founded by Ms Lim Li Kok (above, with daughter and manager Chong Lingying), Asiapac Books published landmark 1990s comics such as Wee Tian Beng's The Celestial Zone and Return Of The Condor Heroes, based on the Chinese martial arts epic by Louis Cha. PHOTO: COURTESY OF CHONG LINGYING
A Manga Lover's Tokyo Travel Guide (left) by Evangeline Neo and Coming Home (right) by Tita Larasati.
Sweet Time (above), the debut book of Singapore artist Weng Pixin, is published by Canada-based company Drawn & Quarterly. PHOTO: COURTESY OF DRAWN & QUARTERLY
Sweet Time, the debut book of Singapore artist Weng Pixin (above), is published by Canada-based company Drawn & Quarterly.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF DRAWN & QUARTERLY
Olivia Ho
Assistant Life Editor
Updated
Sep 01, 2020, 05:00 AM
Published
Sep 01, 2020, 05:00 AM
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