Animated Gestures
Before we get into the meat of this edition (another short one), just a heads up: my obligatory self-promotion section at the start of my newsletters are gonna be a bit longer for a while. You’ll see why in a bit.
Support my work
Work-Life Balance is an award-winning prose/comics hybrid that I co-created with Benjamin Chee. Get it from Blackwell’s, Barnes & Noble (US), Bookshop.Org (US), Toppings & Company (UK), Waterstones (UK), WHSmith (UK), and Kinokuniya (SG).
Work-Life Balance is eligible for nomination in four categories of The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards.
If you haven’t already, nominate us now.
Worlds Apart: A Conversation About Mental Health is a comic that I co-created with Nurjannah Suhaimi. Get it in-store at Greenlight Comics (AU), Kalibak’s Kave (SG), and G&B Comics (SG).
Worlds Apart will be available globally in August as part of the collection, How Are You Feeling?.
Adapt or die
Robot Playground Media, the studio that optioned Work-Life Balance for an animated series, has released a first look of the adaptation—and it is glorious.
Here’s what they wrote in their post:
The Apocalypse has a KPI. First look at our adaptation of the award-winning, genre-mashing graphic / prose novel from the minds of @waynereewrites and @charsiewspace and published by @differenceenginesg. Supported by @nacsingapore. Currently in active development, we'll be presenting this adult animated series to buyers for the first time at @annecyfestival.
I wish that Ben and I had come up with that excellent tagline—The Apocalypse has a KPI—but that’s all Robot Playground. Which is precisely why we trust them to create a tonally different, but still thematically faithful adaptation.
I checked to see when the Annecy Festival would be held and it’s taking place around my birthday. While I understand that deals like this take a whole lot longer than a day or two, I’ll still keep my fingers crossed that Robot Playground gives me one of the best presents I could ask for: good news.
His “I miss Dad” face
Nadia sent me this photo when I was out late the other night. I immediately rushed home.
And that’s it
Just like in my previous edition, I’m gonna use this closing bit to ask you once again to nominate us for The Ringo Awards.
You can copy and paste the text below for each category.
Best Writer
Wayne Rée - WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MALEVOLENT MANAGERS AND FOLKLORIC FREELANCERS
Best Artist
Benjamin Chee - WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MALEVOLENT MANAGERS AND FOLKLORIC FREELANCERS
Best Cover Artist
Benjamin Chee - WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MALEVOLENT MANAGERS AND FOLKLORIC FREELANCERS
Best Original Graphic Novel
WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MALEVOLENT MANAGERS AND FOLKLORIC FREELANCERS
See you next time, folks.