All the Feels
New book—but not new work—alert! What do I mean? Patience, grasshopper. First…
Support my work
Work-Life Balance is an award-winning prose/comics hybrid that I co-created with Benjamin Chee. Our international distributor, Diamond, is going through a messy bankruptcy right now, so the best way to get Work-Life Balance is through our publisher’s website.
Worlds Apart: A Conversation About Mental Health is a comic that I co-created with Nurjannah Suhaimi. You can get it directly from our publisher or in-store at these fine comic shops:
Protect your feelings
Worlds Apart has been reprinted as part of the anthology, How Are You Feeling?, which also collects Andeasyand’s A Drip. A Drop. A Deluge: A Period Tragicomedy, and Vinita Ramani and Griselda Gabriele’s Bearing Witness—three stories about topics that are not discussed nearly enough.
How Are You Feeling? will be available from 15 August 2025, but you can pre-order it now directly from our publisher. Because of the Diamond situation, I can’t tell you when it will be available internationally in bookstores, though if I had to guess, I’d say we’re looking at… 2026? Maybe? Hopefully?
The book has a foreword by Thailand-based comic scholar, Nicolas Verstappen. (In a fun bit of serendipity, I picked up Verstappen’s book, The Art of Thai Comics: A Century of Strips and Stripes, earlier this year while I was in Bangkok). Here’s a choice quote from the foreword.
“Visually inventive and emotionally resonant, this anthology is a powerful contribution to the field of graphic medicine, offering Southeast Asian perspectives that further weave and diversify the threads connecting personal experiences and global discourses on mental and physical health.”
Pre-order How Are You Feeling? now.
Oh, sure, he looks peaceful here…
Since the last time I wrote one of these, I’ve brought Luca to a new vet—one closer to our flat—to get chipped and for a standard check-up. The vet and her technicians were all very lovely. Like his previous vet, they greeted him with a cheery, “Oh, hello! You’re a big, handsome boy!”
After the initial consultation, they told me that I could head out for a cup of coffee while they had Luca chipped. Minutes after this though, I received a call from one of the vet techs who, in a panicked voice, asked me to come back because Luca was “very angry”.
When I returned, I found the vet in one corner of the consultation room, the vet tech in another, and Luca snarling in between them.
Within seconds though, I calmed the little demon back down and, pretty soon, he was chipped and ready to head home, where he was given plenty of treats for being a brave, brave boy.
And, yes, the whole point of this story is to show how much my cat loves me.
And that’s it for now
Hopefully, I’ll have news about a launch event for How Are You Feeling? soon. In the meantime, don’t forget to support my stuff.
Get Work-Life Balance through our publisher’s website.
Get Worlds Apart: A Conversation About Mental Health through our publisher’s website and in-store from:
Pre-order How Are You Feeling? through our publisher’s website.
And until next time, take care, everyone.