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ABC Radio National
I speak to Matt Levinson from ABC Radio National about the Chinatown Comics project and its progress. More interestingly, however, you can hear Teik Chew retell the story he contributed to Chinatown Comics in this recording! Listen here. Sydney siders might be interested to visit Teik’s street wear clothes store, Half Sleeve.
Gathering Stories
The initial stages of turning people’s real world experiences into stories involves gathering their stories. Sometimes a fully scripted, visualised and structured script arrives in my inbox! But more often than not, this stage involves getting to know contributors and paying close attention to how their distinctive character manifests in this small anecdotal experience that [...]
ah-tishoo, ah-tishoo, we all fall down
I’ve encouraged contributors to tell me their stories about Chinatown in whichever manner and medium they’re most comfortable in. Hopefully their voice will translate quite strongly so that when it eventually reaches new audiences, it feels as distinctive and characteristic as that fresh, first instance when they’re recounting their experiences to me. Sometimes the stories [...]
Chinatown Comics Cards
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art had plenty of these fliers printed up with one of my comic pages on one side and some information about how to participate in the Chinatown Comics on the other. I stopped by the gallery to pick up a stack of these late last week but stayed around for [...]
An Introduction
Dear friends, I am looking for your stories about Sydney’s Chinatown to turn into comics! Earlier, I worked on a similar graphic novel project, ‘CAB’, which took collected autobiographical stories about my hometown of Canley Vale and Cabramatta to create a kind of narrative portrait of a community. It was a hugely rewarding experience that [...]
