Organizer: Banyan Roots Collective

Type/Location: Virtual

Description:

Join Difference Engine, a Singaporean comics collective, for a webinar about production and circulation in Southeast Asia, from envisioning comics projects, soliciting ideas from and collaborating with comics creators, to publishing and distributing Southeast Asian comics regionally and worldwide. Speakers include Difference Engine’s Publisher and Co-Founder Felicia Low-Jimenez and Senior Editor Aditi Shivaramakrishnan.

About the Speakers:

Felicia Low-Jimenez has worked in bookselling and publishing for over a decade. She is the Publisher at Difference Engine, an independent comics publisher in Singapore. She is also one half of the writing team behind the best-selling Sherlock Sam series of children’s books. She has her first published adult fantasy short story in Fish Eats Lion Redux.

Aditi Shivaramakrishnan works as an editor, writer, and speech-to-text interpreter in Singapore. She has worked on art books, comics, and young adult fiction titles at Epigram Books, National Gallery Singapore, and Difference Engine, where she is currently a Senior Editor. She is interested in intergenerational conversations that surface immigrant experiences and ideas, and her collaborative, interview-based pieces on this topic have appeared in Portside Review and SEASONINGS Magazine. Her arts writing has been published in the Asian Film Archive’s Despatches, ArtsEquator, Esplanade Offstage, gal-dem, Portside Review, SEASONINGS Magazine, SINdie, the Singapore International Film Festival’s annual festival guides, and elsewhere.

Registration:

To attend the event virtually, please register here.