Northern Exposure II
New! We love Penang (Especially Lefty) and we will be there again for Beautiful Junk on the 10 of November. Hopefully lots of people from the Klang Valley would also go up to support our creative community up north. Wallpaper is this year’s theme and this event will feature exclusive artworks from Funkbuilders(S’pore), Peter Stemler(USA), Vector Junkies(Indonesia), Nemostudio(France) and a whole lot more. Not to mention a string of local designers will also be featured. There will also be live performances from Damn Dirty Ape, Paku, Six Strings Samurai and more. Don’t forget, the lovely Penang-ites hospitality is there to greet us as well.

Click on your right for Gilamon wallpapers specially for this event.

Northern Exposure
New! On the 6th of October, Gilamon we’re invited by Cathay Cineplexes Sdn Bhd for a talk up in their Penang Prangin Mall cineplexes. Titled “Up Close with Gilamon”, the talk was held in one their newly opened cinema halls. Lefty and Michael were there addressing to an almost packed hall of comics/design enthusiasts. Apart from telling about Gilamon’s background and future projects, we also shared about character development in a story. The crowds were far more responsive than we anticipated, which was a good thing. We had so much fun chatting after the session that the management have to break us up because they have to start the movie.

Gilamon would like to thank Joanne of Cathay Cineplexes Sdn Bhd for her persistent in organizing this event, also for Kwong Hwa Daily’s excellent media coverage and Sunday Hotel’s accommodation.

For those who could read mandarin, click here to read Lefty’s interview by Kwong Hwa Daily.

24-Hour Comic Malaysia Round II
New! 20 Oct. 2007 marked another historical moment in the Malaysian comic scene as it was our 2nd annual 24-Hour Comic Challenge. The event, which was held in conjunction with the world 24-Hour Comics day, was organized by Cedko in Cineleisure, Damansara. 51 artists were taking part in the challenge and an impressive 38 artists managed to complete the task. Among them are Milx, the main man who first suggested to have the 24-Hour Comic Challenge in Malaysia, Sunder, Eisu, Aimo, Hanie, JC Wong, Monkey Monyet and Oren. That day also marked the launch of “24-Hour Comics 2006” graphic novel, collecting all the works from Malaysia’s 1st 24-Hour comics, which include the works of Lefty.

Nike 26 Degree X Bearbrick Project
New! Lefty’s Bear, Major Zombrick, is in coverage by Star Talk 25 and Gempak 191. Michael’s In & Out bear(which was a work of Jon Dep, his partner in this project) was also featured in the interview.

Star Talk
Lately, the “"In&Out" team (Michael and Jondep) has been busy interviewing local t- shirt designers, the team’s agenda is to introduce more creative talents from the indie design scene to the general public. Learn more about what they have discovered in the column of ‘Star Talk’, a local lifestyle magazine.

Gengkey Fever
The long awaited 4th graphic novel of Gengkey has scheduled to be release in September. The graphic novel ‘Gengkey Fever’ consists of 24 episodes of Lowkey’s hilarious adventures and articles from Mike. His interview regarding the graphic novel can be found in Gempak Magazine issue 187.

Gila T Availability!
For those of you who are interested in owning a Gilamon T-shirt or for those of you who likes to do charity donation, do drop by the stores listed below and grab our T, for coolness sake or for good karma!

RADIOACTIVE
-Lot L3-58, 2nd Floor, Mines Shopping Fair, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor.
GALLERIIIZU
-Lot 1-07, Ground Floor, Central Market Annexe, Jalan Hang Kasturi, Kuala Lumpur.
BOUNDLEZZ
-Lot S132, 2nd Floor, Sungei Wang, Kuala Lumpur.
HEADQUARTER
-Lot116, 1st Floor, Cineleisure Damansara, 47810 Selangor.
KLAN
-G-21, Jalan PM 4, Plaza Mahkota, 75000 Melaka.

Online stores that carry our products are teelive.com & zoolzoo.com (well, apparently, both site are in their revamp state right now)
So, be patient and check out those sites once in a while. Remember, good karma!

Pipit, the 1st Anniversary!
Pipit- one of the local indie design magazine is celebrating their 1st anniversary.
To share this joyful day with fellow designers and artists, on 15th September Pipit is having an “independent artist & designer event 2007” at Galleriiizu, located at Central Market Annexe.

Invited by Pipit as guest artists. Michael will be working on a freestyle drawing on paper cores, crossover with Nvrmnd@eightyfourcube, while Lefty will do his crossover drawing with Milx. Apart from our regular Gilamon heroes, other talented designers like Sourmilk, Ebangelione, Urban Creatures, Actiontintoy & more will have their fair share of demonstration section as well. For more information, please visit Pipit.
Not to forget, Pipit Magazine issue 2 will showcase our Gilamon latest
T-shirt series- -Gilamon Black.

Do check it out!

We All Love Molly
On the 18th to 20th of August, Kenny Wong (Ex- Brothersfree) was invited to Malaysia Comic Carnival at Sungai Wang. To spice up the event, a crossover art book “We Love Molly” was published, featuring comic book artists from Gempakstarz and Gilamon. Other than exclusive interviews and articles about Molly, the art book’s main selling point is-- each artist was ask to re-create Kenny Wong’s character using their own distinctive style.
Later on 24th until 26th of August, those brilliant Molly illustrations were being exhibited in Singapore’s Basheer Cityroom as well as Hong Kong’s Kubrick APM on 7th to 28th September.

Freak Club
After the commercial success of Utopia High few years back, Sau Lim reluctantly brought us the sequel. But this time, he’s making a cult comic, for like-minded readers only. Utopia High: Freak Club is now compiled into graphic novel and out in the market. Fight Club’s space monkey, pay attention! You are not your money; Buy this comic!
Check out Sau Lim’s interview in Gempak Magazine issue 183.

Nike X Gilamon: Quick Is Deadly
Yup! That’s the title for the latest Nike Zoom
series. Being a design base cartoonist like Mike, it’s no
surprise that he was invited to work on a crossover project with Nike x JUICE.
Do check out the August issue of JUICE(if its still available) and witness the story of 10 incredible circus performers who struggle to escape from their wicked ringmaster.

Back In Black
Gilamon new series of T-shirt is finally here. It called the Gilamon Black series and the whole range will be printed on hard core black tees. There will be 4 designs, first 2 is out in July while the next 2 will be available by the end of the year. Design 01 is Bela: Death is Certain by Sau Lim. Design 02 is Lefty’s Major Zombie: Jump. 02 is a re-mastered version of our previous design. We made this again because the respond to the previous version was very overwelming. And because you demmanded it, we have made XL size for this series. The tees will be available in Headquarter, Cineleisure and Galleriiizu’s brand new digital gallery from 7th July. We have prepared limited edition posters for those early birds who buy our products so come quickly. All tees will be packed in a stylish black capsules with freebies like mini comics and stuffs thrown in. You can also buy them online at teelive soon.

Galleriiizu’s digital art gallery will have its grand opening on the 7th July at Lot1.07, Ground Floor, Central Martket, Annexe, KL. We will be there to promote Gilamon Black with BigBros’ “I Love You Baby” character artbook.

For Love or Money
On the second session of “Love & Money”, a British Council’s international designer event, Gilamon took on a bigger role (we missed the boat on the first one due to the dateline of ourgraphic novel). We had a booth and Mike represented us for the Pecha Kucha night.

The turn ups for that day was much greater than the previous “L&M” event (26 May). Lots of design students as well as new designers attended. The pros are there too, we had some good chats with Tin Toy, Chun Woei Urban Creatures, the boys of 84Cubes, the Pipit couple, Driv, Radio among others.

Juan came back from Singapore to launch Big Bros’ latest artbook release, “I Love You Baby”, a 400+ pages of character design collection. All the stocks were completely soldout with lots of standing orders. See our June webnews for info related to “I Love You Baby”.

Back to “L&M2”, Gilamon’s booth served as a sneek preview for our latest range of tees entitled Gilamon Black. We want to thank the British Council for inviting us to this event.

Talk Talk
As a grant winner who have completed our task, Gilamon was invited to share their experience during MDeC’s Digital Comic Talk. The event, which is to encourage participation in the MSC IP Creator Challenge was held at the KL Hilton on the 14th of June, 2007. The hall was packed with closed to a hundred audiences. Among them are college and university students, veteran and up coming talents.

Lefty gave the talk on behalf of Gilamon, shared about Gilamon’s work and background, elaborating on how we are trying to cross the border to other fields such as fashion, design and digital. He also gave out tips for those who are going to take part in the IP Challenge. Lefty shared the stage with PeKOMIK president, Mohamad Azhar Abdullah and Malaysian comic legend, Jaafar Taib. Aadi Salman, Milx, Alan Quah, Kromosom and Eisu are among the cream of the crop of Malaysian comic industry who came to show their support.

We love babes
“I Love U Baby “ is a character collection book that features artwork, sketches, product designs plus all you need to know about character design. Its produced by Big Bros Workshop, the team that gives us Territory magazine. 31 top character designers from all over the world have contributed their work in this 486 pages (with 50 complimentary stickers) graphic book.

Being a famous character freak, Michael is being invited to contribute to this tomb of a book.His “The Never Ending Tales” is featured here.
The release date is as follow:
Asia Pacific (Singapore / Malaysia): 23 June 2007
Rest of Asia: July Onwards 2007
America & Europe: End of July Onwards 2007
Do check it out!!

For The Love Or Money
We were suppose to focus on completing our graphic novel, but this is too good to let go. Its the exhibition Love & Money which features 20 projects and designers that balance business ambition and commercial success with the invention and experimentation for which Britain’s Creative industries are internationally renowned.

The theme overall theme, therefore, is about the marriage of design and business, and how designers are doing what they do for love and money.

We will be participating in the 23 June(Saturday) slot. Its on Level 3, Avenue K, KL. The programme starts from as early as 11am up to 10pm. Please come over if you all are free on that day. If things go as plan, our latest T-shirt series will be available on that day as well.

We 3
This is a piece we did as a cover for Jay Lim’s digital mag. It will be inserted in the up-and-coming issue of Territory Magazine.

In & Out: Headquarter
The latest installment of In & Out features an “interview” with Scorn and Spunks. Read about how Scorn jumped of his Headquarter’s first floor and bleeds to tell about it in Star Talk 19. Its in mandarin, though. In&Out is conceptualized and illustrated by Michael, Headquarter is located at Cineleisure, Damansara while Star Talk is available in most newsstand through out Malaysia.

Good Look
Kaktus, the 2-gun Chinese chick from the pages of Major Zombie, is featured in April’s JUICE (Malaysian edition). The drawing by Lefty is in the Last Look page.

Headquarter
Congratulations to Scorn and Spunkz for openning their designer boutique in Cineleisure, Malaysia by the name of Headquarter. HQ carries international and local labels. So you can get the likes of genuine A Bathing Ape as well as Gilamon under one roof. So come on over, you trendsetters!!!

The Marathon Man
Mike has completed his marathon run of drawing 101 illustrations for Standard Charted Hong Kong. This project was initiated by Kenny Wong of Brothersfree fame. All the main characters in Mike’s drawing were created by Kenny Wong.

This little hardcover is available for sale in Hong Kong now.

If
Gilamon was profied in the 3rd issue of trendsetting magazine IF. We were interviewed during Massive Territory and Mike also contributed a collage work of his character design for that issue. There will be more to come.

The “In & Out” Movement
Michael is setting up a new creative team which is "In&Out". Basically "In&Out" is 2 men show, "In" is Michael himself & "Out" is friend of him. They will have article talking about local brand & trend in Star Talk Lifestyle Magazine starting from issue 18. It's time to say good bye to those boring interview.

More “In & Out” Movement
“In & Out” is a new column in creative lifestyle magazine Star Talk which feature illustrations by Mike. The Idea of this column is like a two men show, thru a string of conversations between “In”(Mike) and “Out”(a friend) to bring out the topic of the day.

Buy Online
For those of you who have the defect of unable to pay cash for t-shirt, or for those of you who are unwilling to buy our t-shirt during the D’Bazaar event because of our appearance, please log on to teelive to get our t-shirt online... stop torturing yourself already, you know you want it!

Muse’s Comics
Muse is coming to Malaysia on the 25th February, Sau Lim as a fan of the band, has volunteered to draw a set of 6 pages Muse comic base on the imagery of their latest album cover “Black Holes & Revelations” and build the story literary from the title of their 3rd single, “Knights of Cydonia”- When the 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse are planning to bring an end to our world, at the same time, we earthling are making our plan to kill those colossus off too. Do check out the comic in Utopia magazine issue #100 (15th Feb).

KL Massive
It was a day where we get to listen to the funny yet articulate Josh Davies, viewing works from top designers such as Tokyo Lab plus witnessing 123 Klan performing graffiti art live! It was also a day where indie designers meet and show our works to them as well as the attendees of the sold out conference. We were glad to see Driv, who came back from Singapore and had the privelege of meeting Sandora of MNU as well as Natalie and Joanne from Paprika.

Mash-up
We shared the limelight with Homicydal, 84cube, Phobia and Jay Lim at Zouk KL Mash party. We had abooth outside to sell our products and a showcase of our works on the first floor of this hot spot. Thanks to Lestat(Radioactive) and Jet(Zouk) for giving us the space.