Perspective: 40 Under 40

Perspective, a prestigous Hong Kong-based art and architecture magazine, has shortlisted Lefty as one of the winners of its annual "40 Under 40 Awards", which is featured in its July '09 issue.

Other winners that Lefty shares this honour with include:

Kelichiro Sako, his company, Sako Architects, has been taking part in various projects in Beijing since 2004.

Sloerd Hoekstra, who set up Three Dogs in Hong Kong as a specialist outlet for visual merchandising and store planning. Crocs, Vans, and SmartTone-Vodafone are just a few of its many clients.

Vincent Pang, who holds a master's degree from Columbia University in New York and is alsothe founder of VPang Architects and VAP Design, Hong Kong.

It is a very privileged moment for Gilamon Studio - not only because Lefty is selected among such calibre of talents - but also because comic book art has been recognized as part of the main force of the art and design industry.

Gilamon : Zombie, Cannibal & Raygunn

Finally, the long waited Gilamon Compilation has released! Total of 200 pages comics include new materials specially produced for this volume. Limited copies will be available @ San Diego Comic Con 2009 & Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention 2009! Whoever is interested to get a copy, you may email us @ gilamons[a]gmail.com.

Cover

Sneak peak on Lefty's Major Zombie.

Sneak peak on Michael Chuah's Cannibal Boy, Private Investigator.

Sneak peak on Chin Sau Lim's Agent Raygunn Smith.

Flexy Comics

Michael Chuah has a new online comic series up based on Sumajin's toy. You can follow the weekly comic here.

Monstrous Princess Durian

This is the illustration Sau Lim did for James Lu's The Magical Princess Durian; The famous children comic book is celebrating its 12th anniversary this year.

Antenna vs Slaium

Sau Lim was featured in the latest Comic King and Gempak magazine, interviewe by his own comic character: Antenna from Monggo! Want to know more about the philosophy inside Monggo! Check out either Comic King issue 108 or Gempak issue 228 .

Monsters at Mandarin Comic Society

After the long preparation and numerous meetings.

Mandarin Comic Society has finally held its first committee election at Dasein Academy of Art on 9th May 2009.

To our surprise, 60 over comic artists show up for the election event. Gilamon would like to thanks those that take the effort to support this new comic society, for the growth of the Mandarin comic scene.

Fortunately enough, Sau Lim was elected as the Vice president and Michael as the Project Coordinator.

Lefty @NYCC

Lefty who was sent by his company Storm Lion to New York Comic Convention recently, has a few pictures to share:

^ Giant-size He-Man greets the fanboys at the entrance

^ Crowd coming in

^ At Radical booth: l>r Steve Pugh (Hot-wire), Teddy Cebugos, Jeremy Berger, Barry Levine, Steve Niles (City of Dust; 30 Days of Night), Jesse Berger, Edmund Shern, Gianluca and Lefty

^ Lat's Kampung Boy at First Second booth

^ Top Cow booth

^ Rows of back issues up for grabs

^ More back issues!

^ Chewie in the house

^ A cosplayer getting ready

^ Marvel's Cuppa Joe panel, well hosted by EIC Joe Quesada. In the good tradition of this panel, readers lining up for the Q&A, Joe (with other Marvel creators like Bendis) answer like pros. Very cool panel.

^ The audience of various panels

^ The very big panel(check out the size of the people right under it) of Prototype, a game to be develop into a comic series by Jim Lee and his Wild Storm crew.