Charlene Chua, illustration news

Some new work for Salon, which is a specialty magazine for the salons and stylists. It was a very fun job where the editors and art directors decided to go all retro-stylin’! I did a bunch of illustrations for their special business issue, so each piece covered a specific business tip like making the most of photo shoots, increasing counter sales and recruiting. I also did a 2 page comic spread covering ‘a day in the life’ of a Toronto stylist who was trailed by a business expert who gave him tips on improving his business day.

Now that the Liquid City anthology is out (and it’s lovely), I guess its safe to show off some of the pages from the short. Our story , Eidolon, is the closing piece, and if anyone wants to send comments that would be rad.

Newsarama did a nice interview with my friend Sonny Liew about the upcoming Liquid City comic anthology. It’s a good read, so check it out! My husband and I have a story in the anthology (a whole 17 pages!). The tome is going to weigh in at over 300 pages I hear, but it’s a great collection of rather unique viewpoints from artists and writers mainly from Southeast Asia, so hopefully the size and price aren’t going to put off anyone later! Book comes out in November.

(By the way, the art above is the cover art, by Shelly Wan)

You can also see the comic here.

Character sketches for a personal comic project I am beginning to draw. Hopefully this one will get finished… eventually. Need help with screentones.