What Salt Will Bring to Bear – A sci-fantasy story about a soldier looking for a place to die on a foreign planet after a great interstellar war – 5k – Dark Matter Magazine Issue 008 (2022) – 2k words – Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine September/October Issue (2022) What Was Your Inspiration?– A ‘hard’ SF story about an artist whose thoughts are being monitored while making art.

Paradise – A tropical biopunk indigi-horror story following a lone survivor in post-apc Hawaii – 7k words – Published online at Expat Press (2022) – Published in the print edition in Death in the Mouth: Original Horror from People of Color (2022) First off, here’s the short stories I was able to publish this year! Now that’s evocative drawing right there.Making one of these before the year is out because I’m predicting full body-mind hibernation in December. The strength here is in the telling, as, surprisingly, in the first three issues (there are six in total), the protagonists were yet to be shown successfully fighting crime, or stepping inside a call centre, for that matter. White-collar works by day, when out of the office, they have an ability to find themselves in dangerous and life-threatening situations. In the genre of ‘white-collar horror’ (yes that’s a thing), it features four titular call centre agents: Noel, Sandra, Koontz and Charlie. Published by Kowtow Komiks and written by Noel Pascual and illustrated by AJ Bernardo, Crime-Fighting Call Centre Agentshas a reasonably self-explanatory title. Here, we round up some of our favourite Filipino graphic novels. The books are extra special for their ability to integrate the country’s history and mythology with the talents of Filipino artists and writers to create stories full of excitement, intellect and entertainment. In fact, arguably some of the best of them have come from the archipelagic country of the Philippines. Commonly thought of as a sophisticated comic book, the graphic novel spans across all genres and delves into both the fiction and non-fiction world, and are produced all over the globe. In an era dominated by e-books and online publications, there is one category of books that has stood the test of time graphic novels. Forget your regular unillustrated paperback and dive into another dimension in one of these Filipino graphic novels

A picture is worth a thousand words and this couldn’t be more true when it comes to graphic novels.

Meläg by Bong Redila