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<span style="font-size:30px"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">New York Comics<br>
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Please email <a href="mailto:comicssymposium@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(101,101,101);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">comicssymposium@gmail.com</a> to register for this event. <br>
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<div style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14px">Sweet Time with</span><br>
<span style="font-size:24px">Weng Pixin:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:18px">From Zines to Graphic Novels</span></strong><span style="font-size:18px">.<br>
In conversation with Lim Cheng Tju.</span></div>
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<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Weng
Pixin is the first Singapore comic artist to be published by Drawn
& Quarterly. In this sharing, Pixin will chat with CT Lim about her
journey and development as a comic artist and art educator. </p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">My
name is Pixin (Pix for short). I was born in 1983 and grew up in sunny
Singapore, an island city located along the equator. Upon graduating
from (then-known-as) Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts in 2004 with a
first class honours in Painting, I spent the next decade immersed in my
art practice: working in a range of medium from painting, drawing,
making comics to sewing and constructing using found objects. My
facilitation of art workshops for children and adults in Singapore and
overseas led to my interest and completion of a Masters in Art Therapy
from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2016. </p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">I am part of <em>Chicks on Comics</em>,
a comics collective based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The collective
utilises comics as means of expression and discussion on assorted
topics, issues and challenges. It provides me a space to get ‘outside’
of a repertoire of topics or themes that I generally work with, and
encourages me to continually learn new ideas or ways of thinking, and to
expand my thoughts and perspectives on diverse topics. </p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">When
it comes to non-comics-related art such as painting, sewing and/or
drawing, it is a much more process-driven experience where the final
outcome is not the key interest, but rather, being with the act of
making itself, on my own or with others. The making can be felt as a
form of playing, where the adult-me meets the child-me to process our
experiences together. It is incredibly rewarding and fun in that sense. </p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">As an artist, I divide my time between facilitating art workshops for children and working on my comics and art.</p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wordpress.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=76b20cf515abdd6afee242d49&id=d972f83e1e&e=63987ac4c8__;!!KGKeukY!iqXtPATKf0-vor5NqsvCQNmSN_LkYDffrm_6JKHzn3adYMKay-Aipr9n4-9yyxfiygVu436V-DUo$" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><strong>Lim Cheng Tju</strong></a> is
an educator who writes about history and popular culture. His articles
have appeared in the Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Journal
of Popular Culture and Print Quarterly. He is the country editor
(Singapore) for the International Journal of Comic Art and also the
co-editor of Liquid City 2, an anthology of Southeast Asian comics
published by Image Comics. He is one of the authors of The University
Socialist Club and The Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity
(Amsterdam University Press/National University of Singapore Press). He
recently wrote a comic book, <em>Guidebook to Nanyang Diplomacy.</em></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pixmadeobjects.com/about__;!!KGKeukY!iqXtPATKf0-vor5NqsvCQNmSN_LkYDffrm_6JKHzn3adYMKay-Aipr9n4-9yyxfiygVu4x-SREOe$" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.pixmadeobjects.com/about</a></p>
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