comic week 2019
Memories Turn Cold in 'Garut Lights, Drunken Ice'
Yoshi Fe and Sheila Rooswitha Putri find the cold, sad core in a bowl of ice cream.
The Wait Is Worth It In 'Years of War'
In Theodora Abigail and Annisa Rizkiana's colorful comic, a woman waits all her life to arrive someplace where she truly belongs.
Cooking Up Inspiration In 'On Lontong, In The Radcliffe Camera'
Ann Ang and Kathrinna Rakhmavika dig in with this flavorful collaboration.
A Hard Job Becomes Too Much to Bear In 'The Adventures of Bear Man'
Melissa De Silva and Azam Raharjo offer up a story about intimidation and burnout.
The Past Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be In 'The Time Traveler's Wife'
Singapore poet Joshua Ip joined forces with Indonesian artist Kurnia Harta Winata.
'How to Summon Joy When There Is None' Is About the Power of Our Minds
The comic is by Indonesian writer Isyana Artharini and artist Nadiyah Rizki.
'It Was a Joke' By the Philippines' Marguerite Alcazaren De Leon and Josel Nicolas
What happens when a certain powerful somebody keeps making "jokes" that have deadly punchlines.
'Hawker' By Singapore's Ng Yi-Sheng and Xiao Yan Ng
In "Hawker," a secret recipe has a dark, and mystical, source.
We've Gone All In on Magical Thinking For This Year's Comics Collab
Our 2019 fiction week is a celebration of magical realism, comics, and the written word from across Southeast Asia.