Reimena Yee 🦇

[📚ABOUT ME] I'm a Malaysian illustrator, writer and comics educator/organiser. Author of several award-winning/nominated graphic novels and webcomics. Creator, curator and webmaster of the Comics Devices Library. Co-founder of the Cartoonist Cooperative. Open to work! More about my books/projects ⬇️

Being part of the organising committee of MAKE has been easily the highlight of this year. A bloody amazing team to work with but there’s no festival without awesome comics creators and people coming in to check it all out. Today was amazing and we have an awesome festival in Melbourne #Comics

Some of my favourite resources about comics making! smallpress.scot/articles/how... I kept answering Qs or doing talks where I rec'd resources or gave out PDF guides, & wanted to make them more publicly accessible. So now they're up at @smallpress.scot 👍 Here's the pic version

i'm legit almost angry at all the institutions that made people think their dream comic was unproduceable. Everything is produceable baby. The only limiter is how crazy you are

It seems people are often afraid of liking their own art work due to the worry of being perceived as egotistical or conceited, but you can still love your work and have a huge driving force behind that acting as a love for learning and improving. You can be proud and seek joy while you grow.

Reimena's work is so delightful! If you have critter friends and want them to look extremely cute on paper, go thither.

🦜 My pet portrait commissions are open for the summer until August 30th! reimenayee.com/commissions Check out my portfolio of 1000+ pet portraits: reimenayee.com/pet-portraits/ #art

“Lettering is supposed to be invisible” is a little simplistic. If the letterer is doing their job w/ skill, and in harmony w/ the art, it elevates the comic even though you might not register HOW. Bad lettering is more noticeable because it drags the art & writing down with it.

The fun part with making historical fiction is that I get to learn about and include a facet of history that is underfeatured. In this case: the Georgian Era proto-gay/queer/drag subculture of the Molly Houses. 🎀 The World in Deeper Inspection webcomic update: alcottgrimsley.com/comic/c2007-...

if we want to be treated with any kind of respect or rigor as an art form we need to extend the same consideration to others! ESPECIALLY right now when ai is flattening our collective work, the devil is always in the details & proper attribution matters more than ever

In my experience (as an editor of several nonfiction graphic novels/memoirs), these issues have largely been navigated by instinct! Ben will tell you, like @natepowell.bsky.social and other cartoonists, that he developed a stronger sense of historiographical responsibility *while* making the book

comics are already a multi-discipline quagmire of conflicting word and art definitions. there not being any kind of established standard bumping up against a precise world of acknowledged permissions is going to cause issues without a little more grace

Forever grateful to my mentor/consultant Richard Stoneman for being so generous and kind with his life’s work and time for Alexander Comic 😭 (I am slowly building up the strength to continue the work soon)

TBH, this isn't uncommon w/ historical GNs, though this case is especially extreme... Most comic editors aren't familiar w/ best practices for nonfic; creators approach as artists, not journalists/historians. (And yeah, a comic adaptation IS "transformative", but it's still built on others' work.

The World In Deeper Inspection is updating again! I'd call it a glorious mess, a comic version of primordial soup. It's a creation that has itself spun off the lovely book The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya. Could happen again, who knows? Great time to read the archive, then hop into new pages.

Srsly tho my actual advice to young cartoonists is that it's not always wise to do your first comic as an epic especially if you haven't had any practice making/finishing writing or drawing comics before, but if you want to gamble on it, then you'd need to accept or be aware of some things

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Good thread. People don't start creative projects anymore cause they think they have some big sweeping thing simmering in them. Then they start and realize making big things is a lot of work. Then it never gets done. Also because this thing is their first thing, they they're kinda mid at making it.