Massive Attack
New! Our first event in 2007 would be the biggie organized by Territory entitled Massive Territory. Major designers like Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo Lab (Japan), Joshua Davis (US), 123Klan (France) and Kinetic (Singapore) will be in town for this big bang of a conference on the 13th of January. Don't forget to come over to our booth if you guys are there! See ya!

MDeC Grant
New! Gilamon's proposal was short-listed among the 20 finalists for MDeC(Multi Media Development Corporation) Grant. We went in for the presentation on 20th Dec, after a nerve wracking day, we were among the 10 who were selected to received the grant. We were very grateful for the swift decision of MDeC for disallowing Ben(one of the judges and also a colleague from our day job) to vote for us. The winning couldn't be so meaningful if not for that. Another happy note was fellow comic artists Krom and Azhar, who share the same passion for comics were among the winners as well. Congratulations to all and like what Judge Milx said, "Next, we want to see products!" You bet you are gonna see product from Gilamon, sir.

Sci-Fi Con and 24-Hour Comic
New! Its very generous of the science fiction convention to have a comic zone. We put a booth there for the Saturday and Sunday sessions. Unfortunately the date of Sci-Fi Con clashed with Comics Fiesta, hopefully we could participate in both event next year. The high-light of Comic Zone was Malaysia's very first 24-Hour Comic challenge. Lefty were among the 20 participants who have to finish plotting, scripting, drawing and lettering 24 pages of original comic artwork within 24 hours. It was an up hill battle but like what Scott MacCloud said, we learnt so much from this experience that drawing comics may not be the same again. Newsarama had a write up on this event as well.

Digi Street Blast
New! We were among the street wear labels for Digi Street Blast @Bukit Bintang. We had such a good response from the people who came that day, we just want to say thank you to you all again. Must take note for bigger size t-shirts for people like DJ Jungle Jerry was interested in Major Zombie: Fly but the L size was too small for him. A Swedish designer who was here for holiday picked up our last piece of Zombie JUICE tee for the night(our display unit) and wears it on the spot! The best part of the evening was Digi was kind enough to showcase all the street wears on the main stage, worn by the designers! Michael was our representative to strut around on stage with others such as Kenji Black Fryday, Steven Scorn and Sherry Spunkz.

Billy Tan In Town
New! Top Marvel artist, also fellow Malaysian Billy Tan came back for a visit and nice enough to make time to have dinner with us. He was having a tight schedule during his two weeks visit juggling between Penang and KL, family and relatives, friends and work(yes, he still has to complete some pages during this visit). We had a short but warm fellowship over dinner. Among the presence were Tan Eng Huat(who revealed to us his superb Judge Dredd pages), Chee, Aliow, Sau Lim, Lefty and Billy's equally talented brother Munkao who were nice enough to be our photographer for the night.

JUICE DJ Quest
New! On the 18th of November, Gilamon were invited as a sponsor for JUICE DJ Quest Regional final at Zouk. Its a battle between Singapore's Champ DJ Soulja and Malaysia's Ben Cracko. Lefty was there with Tim Homicidal and Joe Tribe to witness the kick-assed performance by Ben who deservingly came up on top. Congratulations!!!

Bizarre Side of Sau Lim Pt 2
2 new short stories by Sau Lim are added in our gallery.
“A Fable of Revolt” is a satirical take on our local censorship board, who are capable of churning out rules and regulation that are much more bizarre than this story.
“The Anti-Boyfriend Story” is just a simple angst chic story. Well, with a touch of supernatural maybe. They are published in Utopia Magazine #95(1 Dec) and #96(15 Dec) respectively.

Beautiful Junk 2006
Michael went solo to Penang with the help of Kenny and Shaw Ming of Comic King/StarTalk(Thank you, guys). BJunk this year has the same good crowd, good exhibition and good music. Among the designers or design units who took part were Tin Toy(KL), Tau-ew.com(Pg), Bard(UK) and BKK2(Bangkok). Some of the great musicians who performed were Damn Dirty Ape, Citizen Of Icecream and Nao. The festival of art and noise was held on the 11th of November at Galleri Seni Mutiara, Armenian Street, Penang. We want to thank Chun Woei and the gang for organising this event. Until next year...

Rabu*Rabu, Anyone?
That means “Love*Love” for us commoners and its the latest comic strip by Michael to be serialised in Malaysia’s Gempak magazine. This humorous strip is about Eliz and Willie and how their curious nature put them in some whacky spots. Man, its really hard to discribe Michael’s work and make it sounds interesting, you all gotta read it yourself. Gempak #168(15 Nov issue) marked the launch of the series which featured a cover and an interview piece of Michael.

Manual Not Auto
Manual Epoch(M.E.) is a speciality shop for custom designed canvas shoes. We were invited by M.E.’s brain childs Mape, Jazz & Childson for a crossover project and Michael has done one. Among other designers who have left their mark on M.E.’s canvas was Tribe and Black Fryday. Michael created the character “Matt” specially for M.E.

Beautiful Junk Penang
Beautiful Junk is here again and this year the theme is “Hero”. We have contributed three posters for this exhibition. The festival of art and noise will kick start at 11am on the 11th of November at Galleri Seni Mutiara, Armenian Street, Penang. Apart from the posters exhibition, there will also be designer bazaar and life music performances on that day. You can buy our t-shirts, including Lefty’s “Hero and Sacrifice”(see description below), which is specially released for this event, and comics over there. If you can’t make it on that day, you can still check out the posters for they will be on display until the 18th of November.

Hero and Sacrifice
In conjunction with Beautiful Junk exhibition on the 11th of November, Lefty has came up with a new t-shirt. The core graphic illustrates Major Zombie’s heroic save of Kaktus from the brutal Zombie King. Lefty was working on this comics story when he got this design assignment, so the idea came naturally. The rosarch effect was inspired by Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” video. Also we would like to thank Scorn for hand printed the t-shirts for us at such short notice.

X Cup’s 1st
Michael and Lefty were featured in Taiwanese designer magazine, X-Cup September ‘06 issue. X-Cup is a sister publication of the acclaimed X-Fun magazine. We were imvited to contribute a piece of work with the theme, “My 1st Experience”. Please click on the thumbnails on right to check them out.

Recharge to Party
We will be putting up a booth at Radioactive d’Bazaar section of this year Recharged: Revelation party. Its going to be held at A’famosa Melaka on the 28th of Oct. There will be more than a dozen local designer labels taking part, among them are Lestat, Black Fryday, Scorn, Spunkz, Bunny Egg and Homicydal. The event will start from 5pm on Sat(28th Oct) and end the next morning at 5am. If you wanna let loose in the biggest outdoor party in Malaysia or you wanna check out a gallery of local designer t-shirts and stuffs(or you just wanna buy us drinks), we will see you there!

Lefty's New Load
Here are the latest artworks from Lefty. More at the gallery.

Bizarre Side of Sau Lim
Check out our gallery section for Sau Lim’s new short story, which was published in Utopia Magazine issue #90 (15 sept). This 8-page comics is his first attempt to draw weird/haunting atmosphere with a bizarre storyline, apart from his regular humour(or not so humour) comic series--Utopia High: Freak Club. Do enjoy!

Form and Elements
We were recently invited by Form to present an artwork based on the theme of elements. It appeared in issue 03 of this art and design magazine. Here are what we have done. Thank you Form, for giving us this opportunity.

Freaky In Hong Kong
During the 8th Ani-Com Hong Kong (28/07-01/08/2006), one of Mike’s Gengkey character, Freaky was on display as a prototype figurine. Its was sculpted by acclaimed Hong Kong toy sculptor Steven Chui. We would like to thank Steven for picking Freaky as a character to show off his skill. Click on to the pics on the right to see the “handy” works of Steven.

Taipei Toy Festival 2006
We were among the 40 groups who participated in the recent Taipei Toy Festival 2006. As reported earlier, our creation Cannibal Boy’s prototype figurine was revealed during the festival. Click on to the photo section on the right to check it out. Cannibal Boy, a creation of Michael and Sau Lim, will be produced by Pixie and it will be available for sale in next year’s festival. Michael also did a few items for Pixie, among them are a serie of comics entitled “So What Junior” based on Pixie’s So What figurines and a packaging illustration for Asian superstar Jay Chou’s Omni x Pixie’s “Mine” So What figurine. So What Junior’s animation which featured the character design by Michael, were shown thru-out the festival.

Michael, the sole member of Gilamon who attended the fest(we are running on a limited budget here) would like to thank those who have taken care of him during the trip. They are 22, Wan Hen, Kenny Wong, Jukai, Ben Lam, Ian, Lily, Steven, Mark and Pixie crew among others.

Territory Launch Party
The launch of Territory vol 5, which entitled Japan Fever, attracted so many people to KL’s Galleriiizu, there is hardly any room to move. The function not only jam-packed with people, it was also filled with presentations and talks by international designers who are flown in especially for this event. Namely, they are Thailand’s Thanawat Chongmahakul & Sasis Suwonpakprak(Bangkok 2), Australia’s Michael Dawidowicz(Urban Collective) and Malaysia’s Liew Sanyen of (If) Interactive. These sessions are especially inspiring for those students, some even came all the way from Penang.

Gilamon also did our bit by demonstrating the creative process of silkscreening on t-shirts. We have shown the crowd two methods, cross printing and mixed colour printing. We have created a brand new design which featured the art of three of us in conjunction with the launch. We were very happy with the attentant of the audiences as well as the opportunity to talk to them. We also get a chance to know some local and international designers. All in all, it was a great evening.

Toth’s Departure
This is a bit late but Gilamon would still want to pay our last respect to Alex Toth. A master in black and white drawing. Mr Toth’s work is clean and elegant, yet with a lively stroke. A quality that not many artists have.

Mr Toth passed away at the age of 77 on his drawing table. The most perfect way to depart for an artist.

Expo! Expo!
Gilamon is going to the expos this summer. 1st up is Anime Expo @Anaheim Convention Center, USA. Eventhough we won’t be appearing personally but we will be having our products up for sale( thanks to Mickey and Adam from Gnome International). Look for our t-shirts and comics @booth 292 of the expo from 1-4 of July. Next up is the Taipei Toy Fest(7-9 July) which we will be having our own booth. Michael is the only one attending the fest for it is too costly for all three of us to be there. Gilamon will be unveiling the prototype figurine of Cannibal Boy and Shark during this fest. The figurine is sculpted by famed Taiwanese toy designer PhalanX Creative. Mike will definitely be taking lots of pictures and you will be able to see it here.

Shop Online
For those who are interested in buying our t-shirts, you can now do it online @fish2shop. You will also find lots of other interesting items such as clothing and toys in this little online shop. We are also looking into other options in bringing our products to you thru the internet soon.

Zombie JUICE
We have been giving out t-shirts in JUICE Grabs for the past few months(see JUICE issue March, April and May) but for the June issue, we were invited to create an exclusive design for JUICE Stlye. This t-shirt, entitled Zombie JUICE, is illustrated by Michael Chuah from Sau Lim’s layout and features Major Zombie Junior, a character based on Lefty’s Major Zombie. In other words, it involved all three members of Gilamon. For you all who resides in Malaysia(particularly in the Klang Valley), you could e-mail JUICE to purchase this special t-shirt. Just type ‘JUICE x Gilamon - I Want Tees’ with your details as follows: Full name, IC #, Occupation, Address, Contact #.

Zombie JUICE is also available thru Kidults, S087, 2nd Floor, Sg Wang Plaza, Kuala Lumpur. June is also the 4th anniversary for JUICE, so we will see you all @da party!(Go to juiceonline for details)

KLue Coverage
In its June issue, KLue were reporting about indie t-shirt designers in its Hype page and Gilamon were mentioned as part of the new labels in town. Others include Criola, Pop Malaya and Lodestar. Thanks for the plug, KLue!

Territoriyaki
The latest volume of Territory will finally be launched on the 1st of July. As featured artists, we are being invited to do a ‘live’ silkscreening presentation during the launch party. We will be producing a new piece of artwork and silkscreen it on t-shirts on that special day. The theme for this volume of Territory is Japan Fever and international designers such as Junko Kawashima(Japan), Michael Dawidowicz(Urban Collective, Australia) and Thanawat Chongmahakul(Thailand) will also be flown in for this event. Be sure to check out our site again for the inside scoop of the event later.

S.A.L.E. Continues
Our first exhibition went on nicely at galleriiizu. We were very happy with the turn up. The exhibition, entitled SA'L'E Sunday Art “Lelong”(auction in the Malay language) Event will be on till the 27th of May. Sales have been good too, thanks to all who support us by buying our t-shirts and mini comics. For those who are interested and yet to check it out, you all can do so by dropping by Galleriiisu which is located at 19A-2-1, Mezzanine Floor, UOA Centre, Jalan Pinang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, just opposite of the new KL Convention Centre. Its open from 11am to 6pm everyday.

S.A.L.E.
Sunday Art “Lelong”(auction in the Malay language) Event will be the next project for Gilamon. We will be among the 7 design units to exhibit and sell our limited edition products for the event. S.A.L.E. is organised by Galleriiizu, an art gallery that gives a lot of exposures to the local design scene. We will launch our Gilamon Comics #2 as well as 2 brand new designs to our t-shirt line during this event. S.A.L.E. will be on from the 7th to the 27th of May. Apart from collecting Gilamon’s comics (from the previous #0 till the brand new #2), t-shirts and posters, you could also get cool stuffs from other fine designer units such as Trinity, BigBrosWorkshop, Rena Puah and Little Syam. Our complete line up of t-shirts will be up on display during this 3 weeks event. Please drop by Galleriiisu which is located at 19A-2-1, Mezzanine Floor, UOA Centre, Jalan Pinang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, just opposite of the new KL Convention Centre. Its open from 11am to 6pm everyday. Galleriiizu would normally have an event/exhibition on every 7th of the month, the recent ones are the UseAgain Project Asia and Frank Woo’s installation COMM.BLK. For more infomation, log on to galleriiizu.com or call +603 23801121

Asian Coverage
Mike has been featured in 2 designer magazines recently. First up is ISH, a bi-monthly mag on various aspects of art. Its has a 2-page interview with Mike and his Gengkey 100 artbook. ISH is published by the Singapore based Page One Publishing Limited. Secondly is a Taiwanese design mag called DPI which allocated a few pages to focus also on the art from Gengkey 100.

Hong Kong Underground
During Lefty’s holiday in Hong Kong, he managed to check-out Comix Magneto, an exhibition that gathers almost all the non-mainstream local artists. This is a Hong Kong comics art exhibition that you won't see any of the usual kungfu stuffs, almost as refreshing as an American comics exhibition without super heroes. The concept of this exhibition is, each artist prepares his/her own artwork based on a numbers of triangular blocks. Some of the artists even turn their creation into an installation art piece. To get more info, go to comixhomebase. Among the notable artists are Li Chi-tak, Stella So, Ted Young, Craig Eu Yeung, Ah Hing and our friend Elphonso Lam.

100 Elphonsos
Speaking of Elphonso, his "Rock n Roll Burn" journal in Milk magazine is approaching its 100th appearance. To celebrate this grand occasion, he has invited 100 artists to contributed drawings of his comics self. The Gilamons are fornunate to be among the 100 artists and here are our version of his punk-ness. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him on this occasion as well. Here is to another 100, man!!!

Global Territory
Territory will feature an interview with the Gilamon trio in the May issue. On top of that, we will also be giving away Gilamon Comics #0 to the early batch people who buys the designer mag. For the first time, Gilamon Comics will be available in Japan, Europe, Hong Kong and US thru Territory. The numbers of comics given out are quite limited so please be quick about it. Gilamon would like to thank BigBrosWorkshop for making this possible on such short notice.

Gilamon Comics 2
Our long awaited Gilamon Comics is finally on the way. This issue will feature a few surprises including new characters, new collaborations and mystery guests. Major Zombie won't be back yet(but he will!) for Lefty has a new story to tell, Sau Lim's Agent Smith will be battling some weird techno-beast and get ready for Mike & Sau Lim's new creation which will be drawn by Mike. Its all new and its all good and you could read it in May!

JUICE Grab 02
Get a copy of JUICE April and stand to own a Gilamon t-shirt. This is the second in a total of 3 different design of t-shirts we are giving away thru JUICE. This month, we are giving out the brand new Major Zombie: Fly t-shirt by Lefty. Even if you didn't not win, JUICE is still a cool mag to have. Best of all, its free! Find out about JUICE here.

Throw Up
Not literaly but graffitically. Throw up means a quickly written piece of wall art mainly made out of bubble letters. It was also the theme for Klan's Graffiti Competition 2 which was held outside their store in Melaka on the 26th of March. Lefty were fortunate enough to be invited as one of the four judges(the other three were April Kwan, JUICE mag editor; Joo Hong of Radioactive Clothing and the man himself, Joe TRIBE) Lots of people shown up and did their thing. We had good fun eventhough we were under the sun(better than if it rained, actually) and the boozes provided did cool us down rather effectively. Lefty were impressed by the graffiti writers that came from all over the place even as far as Kelantan. And again, thanks to Joe for a really fun event. We hope to be there again next year.

Cool View
Recently we were interviewed by a trendy lifestyle magazine, Cool. IThe interview is published in their March issue. If you want to know more about our take on fashion and design(and if you could read mandarin), do buy a copy, ya?

Clay Zombie
This little Major Zombie Junior sculpture is done by Leong Wei Kok, also known as Puyuh to his Malaysian comics fan. Kok specialised is digital painting of weird rabbits and monsters, our cuppa tea actually. Check out his fantastic works here.

Know What
Another collabo coming up as Gilamon is teaming up with Phalanx. Mike will whip up a series of comics based on Phalanx's SoWhat figures. Check out Mike's preliminary sketches @Kidrobot.

Grab JUICE
Starting from the March issue of JUICE magazine, we will be giving out our t-shirts in the Grabs section. One design will be given out each month, 1st up is Sau Lim's "Die! Worm Monster! Die!" and its followed by Lefty's new Major Zombie design in the April issue, wrapping up this 3-month give away event is Mike's brand new character which he developed with Sau Lim in May. If you wanna get a free Gilamon t-shirt, this is your best chance. JUICE is a trendsetting magazine that is distributed free in the Klang Valley and some part of Melaka. Watch out for the April issue if you have missed out March's.

Spray Klan
We will be in Melaka on the 25th March to be one of the judges for Klan Graffiti Competition. Klan is also the latest designer outlet that is carrying our line of products. Apart from local designer brands, their house brand Tribe has already making waves in the local street wear market. If you are in Melaka during that weekend, come on over and check out the event. •
Klan Concept Trading, G-21, Jalan PM 4, Plaza Mahkota, 75000 Melaka .
Tel / Fax : 06 288 1960 http://klanconcpet.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/

Don't Play Play
PlayTimes, a Singapore toys and collectibles magazine, has published a 2-page article on Mike's Gengkey100 artbook. PlayTimes is available infine graphic book stores around the world and Basheer in Bukit Bintang is one of them. If you want to know more about this cool magazine, visit their website at http://www.playtimes-magazine.com/currentissue.htm

New Outlet to get out Ts
BunnyEgg urban stuff, a new street wear outlet in Johor Bharu(JB) will be carrying our line of apparel. So to all Johorian, do head over there and tell the good folks of BunnyEgg that the Gilamons send you ;) Their address is: Danga Bay, 93A, Festive Street Mall,PTB 21343, Batu A1/2, Jalan Skudai, 80200 Johor Bharu, Johore. So far, here are the outlets that carry our series KL: KIDULTS, S087, 2nd Flr, Sg Wang Plaza KK: MARIONETTE, D36, 3rd Flr, Centre Point Sabah

Street Roar
We had a table in the flea market area during the one day indie music fest. The turn up was better than we expected eventhough it was a gloomy and wet day. KL PAC is located in the beautiful Sentul West. When we first got there, we all felt like we stepped foot on foreign land. Among the exhibitors were Urban Cr3atures of Penang, which featured Gilamon's posters in their lot. Gan from culturefight.org was there to promote the site as well as selling some authentic gas masks! We had a real good time enjoying musical performances by local bands White Light, Citizen of Icecream as well as ace foreign musicians such as Dzap Dau Dau(all girls cutie pop-punk group that turned Mike's knees into jelly), Sub(China), False Alarm(HK) and Kazumasa Hashimoto(Japan).

comic.com.my
As part of the plan to make gilamon easier to reach by the masses, we have obtain another url, comic.com.my. Not only it is easy to remember, its also a strong representative of our direction. So from now on, either you key in gilamon.com or comic.com.my, you will come to this site.

Got Milk
Acclaimed Hong Kong artist Elphonso Lam(who was with us during last Decembers' Malaysia Comics Carnival) has featured us in the popular trend mag, Milk(#230-232). Elphonso talked about his trip to Malaysia in his column. Many photos and artworks were shown. On top of that, he has made an exclusive drawing based on our characters. Snipets from the mag is shown here.

A big thank you, Elphonso. You have made our day, punk!

Cool in KLue
Gengkey 100 artbook is featured in Klang Valley's top trendsetting, mind openning mag KLue. If you don't know what KLue is, you are probably not from KL. Anyhoo, with Gengkey 100 on the first page of Pulse section(KLue Jan '06, page 27), Mike's head has now swollen to the size of Keropok Boy*'s tummy.
*Keropok Boy is a character from the brilliant "Malaysian Superhero" comics, currently serialised in KLue.