REDISCOVER CARTOONING

Powerful images of a cartoon can be a quick and effective way to communicate one's idea. Humour touch with simplicity can connect best with many individuals. Through this blog, we hope one will be able to Rediscover the Power of Cartooning, embracing Greater Sense of Humour in Life!



Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Place reservation for The Winged Tiger in Singapore


We are still in the process of updating the website to feature the preview of the book. However friends and friends of friends who find this book nice and have faith in the quality of the content, and wish to own a book, 10 books or even more to give as gifts for Christmas, you may wish to place a RESERVATION in advance to avoid disappointment.

The 3 days at the Singapore Toy Games Comic Convention may bring in at least 10,000 audiences from all over the world. We are aiming to sell all the books (1000 books and that's all we have). So if you like it, do not hesitate to drop me a message through Facebook or email me whichever is accessible!

You can always collect it during December 10-12 at the convention. Our booth, The Cartoonists Across America and The World. We shall be there to autograph all books. Each book cost only $25.

For email reservation: comixguru2003@yahoo.com.sg

Preview: The Winged Tiger in Singapore


The Winged Tiger in Singapore (December 2010) is the sequel to Steve the Dog & The Winged Tiger (March 2010). It continues the story of Dot and Steve the Dog from Chicago, Illinois and how they take a trip to Singapore to meet a little girl named Emily and a dog called Rocket with the help of a magical flying tiger.


Preview: The Winged Tiger in Singapore #1


In the first book, we saw how The Winged Tiger, a well-dressed Chicago Bull and Dot were able to get Steve the Dog, a couch potato dog, out of his cozy Chicago apartment for the very first time to see how many wonderful things exist in the real world. Until Steve the Dog met Dot, he had simply lived through his widescreen TV set, the internet and all things electronic. The story illustrates with big full page images all the wonderful things in the city of Chicago that might inspire various career paths from architect to zoologist. At the end of the first book, Steve the Dog becomes a Renaissance dog interested in learning and doing a wide variety of things in the real world.


Preview: The Winged Tiger in Singapore #2


In the sequel set in the island country of Singapore, Dot and Steve the Dog head for Singapore to meet Emily and Rocket, who is a couch potato dog living in a high rise flat and never leaving his own apartment. Rocket loves video games and watching TV and being on the Internet, but has also never left his apartment.


Preview: The Winged Tiger in Singapore #3


One day, Rocket meets Emily who teaches art and who actually gets Rocket to do some painting outside of his apartment for his first experience in the real world. They are actually painting outside the Singapore Art Museum when the Winged Tiger, Steve the Dog and Dot show up from Chicago.


Preview: The Winged Tiger in Singapore #4


The rest of the book shows how Rocket gets introduced to all the wonderful things in his own country that inspires him to consider a wide variety of career paths from medicine to designing amusement parks to becoming an environmental engineer.

Both of these books are intended for people of all ages and all cultures anywhere in the world. Although they take place in specific locations, the message in these books is truly universal and is designed to inspire all people of all ages, to simply balance their lives between all the electronic distractions of the modern world with real hands on living experience.



Book launch: The Winged Tiger in Singapore



You shall get to see the book launch of The Winged Tiger in Singapore in December 10-12, at the The Singapore Toy Games & Comic Convention in Suntec City. This hard cover book with a limited print of only 1000 copies will be selling at $25 each.

The authors/artists Phil Yeh, Geoff Bevington and myself will be there to autograph the books. Do visit us at our booth, The Cartoonist Across America and The World .

Buy this limited edition book before it get sold out!

Raffles Girls Primary






My impression of teaching cartooning in Raffles Girls Primary is like going to a branded college. Although this is not the first girls school I have taught (I have taught in Nanyang Girls' High School and CHIJ sec before), this is the first girls primary school that I have stepped my foot in.

There are 5 sessions of 2 hours in my Rediscover Cartoon and Comics Making classes. In these workshop, they are taught the basis of cartoon and manga style drawing, drawing clothes, background, designing their characters to writing script and inking their comics page. Yes, all in a short 10 hours of lesson.

In the 5th session, we actually watched a cartoon movie (Laputa, The Castle In The Sky) together. They have a good time watching the movie, or perhaps it is myself who really enjoying the show.