Author Archives: Sarah Turner

Chrysanthemum alley – drawn by Kate Hayward

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Chrysanthemum Alley Chrysanthemum Alley is a sparkly new supernatural slice of life manga of a tale following Shea, a rabbit girl from an ancient clan, who lost their ability to transform. She moves to Tokyo with her brother, June, in hope to find more of her kind after finding an Internet idol with a very convincing tail… Chrysanthemum Alley

Writer/Creator: Midori Harako Midori (aka Himmi) is a full time potato who sometimes works on children’s books and game designs in Leeds. When she’s not drawing, she is wailing over fictional characters whilst drinking tea by the pint. http://moongarage.co.uk/

Guest artist: Kate Hayward Kate is an illustrator, tea drinker, nature lover, movie fanatic, horror fan, amateur photographer and bug enthusiast living near Cambridge, UK. She has far too many ideas for comics that she should be drawing. At the moment she draws the odd little webcomic, Legion of Kats.

 

Demontail – drawn by Anna Dowsland

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Demontail After being used as lab rats and locked away from the world, the children decide they’ve had enough and try to break free, but can they manage it?

Writer/Creator: Foxhat Foxhat is a final year university student studying cartoon and comic arts. Soon to be set free on to the world as a graduate, she’s ready to share her slightly strange worlds in comic form.

Guest artist: Anna Dowsland Anna Dowsland (Anitos.) is a freelancing illustrator and comic artist. Her work can be seen in children’s books, CD covers, Animations, Exhibitions and online comics. Previous comic projects she has taken part in are One Beat Zines – “Double Dare ya”, Marine Studios – “Adventures in Comics”, “To Arms” – A WWI centenary anthology, Dirty Rotten Comics – issue 5&6. Anna’s main comic is called Don’t Feed The Pigeons, which is updated on her wordpress every Wednesday.

Nobody kisses me like that – drawn by Midori Harako

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Nobody Kissed Me Like That ‘Nobody Kissed Me Like That’ is a newly started YAOI comic (well, mild YAOI, I would say). Since it has just started I cannot give much away, but it involves two decent human beings and one strange intruder. We’ll find out who he is and all the other mysteries we’ve yet to explore…!

Writer/Creator: Chie Kutsuwada Chie Kutsuwada is a crisps-munching hare in the daytime and a Japanese manga fanatic at night. She grew up in Japan loving manga and later moved to England then found the fascination of drawing beautiful boys. Her other work can be found here. http://chitangarden.wix.com/chiekutsuwada

Guest artist: Midori Harako Midori (aka Himmi) is a full time potato who sometimes works on children’s books and game designs in Leeds. When she’s not drawing, she is wailing over fictional characters whilst drinking tea by the pint. http://moongarage.co.uk/

 

Go! Go! Metro! – drawn by Mewa Chu

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Go♥Go Metro! Autumn 2010, two Japanese Manga artists, Chie Kutsuwada and Inko decided to start personification of tube stations in London. Here in Go♥Go Metro!, you might have a chance to meet your local station in person…?! Check out who they are and what they’re up to!

Writer/Creator: Inko Inko is an UK based Japanese manga artist. Her works often imply cross overs of traditional Eastern and Western cultures. She graduated Kyoto Zokei university of Art & Design in Japan, and Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in UK, then she kicked off her career in late 2008. She frequently joins various conventions, art projects such as Art on Underground, gives talks at museums, and deliver manga workshops in and outside UK. Her webcomic co-writed with Chie Kutsuwada ‘Go! Go! Metro!’, an action manga ‘Ketsueki’ story by Richmond Clements, and an art book‘Uniform Girls I’ are available.

Guest artist: Mewa Chu Mewa-Chu is a creator who does things on the internet. She loves drawing and creating manga styled stories and illustrations and have been doing so since 2007. Mewa creates a variety of different stories all with different and unquie characters in the fun setting of Mew-Ville and Ruby City. Many of her stories can be found at http://www.mew-ville.com/

 

Tamino and The Magic Flute – drawn by Jade Sarson

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Tamino and the Magic Flute Tamino and the Magic Flute is a comic based on Mozart’s final opera The Magic Flute. The comic is due to launch this year, where it will be serialized, updating once a week on Mondays. Because Mondays are horrible and we have to fight them together.

Writer/Creator: Paula Albaneze Paula Albaneze is a small orange..

Guest artist: Jade Sarson Jade Sarson is a comic artist and illustrator, winner of the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2014 (with an extract from her book For the Love of God, Marie!), and nominated for Best Emerging Talent in the 2013 British Comic Awards. She graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2011 with a first class honours degree in Illustration, and published the first Cup of Cafe Suada shortly after. Her work is a fusion of British and Japanese influences, and combines digital and traditional techniques; it has been featured in Neo Magazine, Electric Bloom Webzine, and in anthologies such as Leek and Sushi and Parallel Lives. She lives in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. For the Love of God, Marie! will be published by Myriad Editions in April 2016.