T available
Our Gilamon Ts(which are hand printed and very limited) are now available at Kidult in Sungei Wang Plaza, Kuala Lumpur and Marionette in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. There are only handfuls from each outlet so be quick if you are interested. Kidult and Marionette are fashion outlets that focused on our local designer's Ts, so you can find lots of interesting items there which are not available anywhere else. Kidult's house brand is Homicydal while Marionette's just called Marionette.

Kidults S087, Second Floor, Sungei Wang Plaza, Kuala Lumpur.
Marionette D36, Third Floor, Centre Point Sabah, 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah,
East Malaysia.

Mike's Golden Dragon moment
Congratulations to Mike for bagging the 2nd prize in the category of "multi-frame" comics at the second Golden Dragon Awards 2005.

MCC05
Malaysia Comic Carnival (MCC) is finally come and go. Among the highlights of this annual event (organised by Art Square Group) are the appearance of Hong Kong's top illustrator (also Mike's hero) Elphonso Lam and China's Yao Fei La. To the Gilamons, MCC is even more meaningful because of the launch of Sau Lim's Monggo collection and Mike's all new Gengkey 100 art book. Like the previous MCC, it serves as a platform for artists to chat and catch up with each other. Among the artists that turn up this round including Puppeteer, Tan Eng Huat, Adijin, Totoro, Sunder, Kromosom and Chee.

The return of Major Zombie & Junior
Another 2 new T-shirts are released this month. One by Lefty and the other by Michael. Lefty's design, entitled "Zombie Jump!"features his creation Major Zombie while Mike's "Zombie Junior", features Major Zombie Jr, a completely made-over(or, "cutie-popularized") version of the original. Both T's, like the previous one(Sau Lim's "Worm Monster"), are manually(and "lovingly") printed by The Gilamons! So no two Ts would look the same! Again, they are very limited because we only have weekends to do the silk screenings. If you are interested, drop us an e-mail.

100
Mike has been busy redraw/redesign 100 of his favourite characters he has created over the years for Gengkey. This collection of characters, entitled Gengkey 100, will be published as a special artbook during MCC as well. See an updated version of Lowkey, Paul, Amin, Lamb and more specially drawn for this artbook. Click here for an advance preview. Mike will also be designing a T-shirt to be coincide with Gengkey 100's launch. Great stuffs!

Monggo on the loose
Monggo, Sau Lim's most ambitious series to date, is finally being collected into a trade paperback(TP). It will be launched during Gempak Starz annual biggie, Malaysia Comics Carnival(MCC) 2005. Monggo is a secret civil rescue team made out of a bunch of teens. Their mission is to protect the enviroment and children from being victimised by the society. Take a sneak peek at the cover and interior pages here. Don't forget to check out the Monggo Tee released inconjunction with the TP as well.

Monggo T
As we prepare for the manga size trade paperback(TP) of Sau Lim(aka Slaium)'s excellent Monggo series(previously serialised in Utopia), do check out his Monggo t-shirt which is available now. The TP will be available by the end of the years from Gempak Starz.

The Bunny Mandala Project
Mike(again) has perticipate in this pictoplasma project. He is among the 500+ designers that contributed and you can view his design there. Just type the name elmer fudd with the password "wabbit" for his legendary "cutie pops" design.

Mike's design for threatless.com
Two of Mike's design were selected by threatless(wondering around & 80 years old). For those who came to vote, Mike would like to thank you. Do check out other cool designs there.

Vote for Mike!!!
Congratulation to Mike, for one of his designs he submitted to threadless.com has been chosen to be among the competition. If it gathers enough votes, it will be printed! So please get over there and vote like nobody's business!

Gilamon @Urban Creature Studio, Penang
It was a very casual get together. We were warmly greeted by Chun Woei and the whole cast of Urban Creatures, as well as some of their friends that came to visit during this special day. We exchanged informations about the design scene in Penang and KL (Lefty also collected some tips for the whereabouts of yummy Penang food).
Apparently, Urban Creatures specialize in video editing, post production design among others and most of their clients are from overseas. Chun Woei is also a part-time lecturer for
a major art college in the island, therefore, their gallery is frequent by art students. We left
a few pieces of our (very limited) DIY T-shirts and ashcans for sale there. Anyone who's interested please visit the gallery and check out our stuffs. Just tell them that Gilamon sent you. Location wise, this studio-gallery is strategically located on the third floor of a new shop lot just opposite Island Plaza. Its easy to get there even by public transport. See news bellow
for the full address and contact number.

Watch out for worm, guys
Our second Gilamon T, "Die!! Worm Monster! Die!!" is premiering at Urban Creature's Gallery. It is drawn by Sau Lim and hand printed by the three of us. This is our first DIY T and its very RARE! Tears, sweats and weekends were sacrificed for this baby.

The Creatures are here!!!
Those of you who are up in the Northern part of Malaysia do take note, this month marks the launch of Urban-cr3atures Gallery. It will be launched on the 24th of September 2005 to invited guests and open to public on 25th September onwards. It is opened daily from 3pm to 8pm and the exhibition will last for a month.

We will have 3 posters up for this exhibition, which has a theme of urban-cr3atures: 21st century fr3ak show.

Crossover with Urban-cr3atures
During last June, we had the privilege to participate in the Beautiful Junk exhibition in Penang. Now, in conjunction with the launch of Urban-cr3atures, Beautiful Junk's organiser Chun Woei, also Urban-cr3atures' creative director has invited us to take part in an exhibition in its new gallery. These are the our poster.
We also managed to have Urban-cr3atures' creative director Chun Woei to give us an introduction to this set-up:
"Urban-cr3atures was born out of the passion to create new design, trend and dare to be different. We are an audio visual design collective who help to promote new talents globally. Urban-cr3atures are refer to an unknown or unfamiliar kind, as we keep coming up and experimenting with weird approach and the ability to invent and develop original ideas."
"Now we r fortunate enough to get a nest for us to stay in. This amazingly average size nest is going to b our design lab & gallery. To hold our first exhibition, we r inviting fellow designers and creative ppl to join us to share our opinion n ideas all around. The theme of the exhibition is urban-cr3atures: 21st century fr3ak show. Lets the monster unleashed.
Come join us"
The gallery will be launched on the 24th of September 2005 to invited guests and open to public on 25th September onwards. It is opened daily from 3pm to 8pm and the exhibition will last for a month.
Urban-cr3atures are :: Chun Woei(Creative Director) + Hooi Lee(Senior Designer) + Kah Lai(Senior Designer) + Vivian(Marketing + Finance Director) + Wei Ming(Graphic Designer)
Urban-cr3atures :: audio visual design lab + gallery
www.urban-cr3atures.com (will be up by mid September)

98-3-23A, Prima Tanjung, 10470, Jalan Fettes, Tanjung Tokong, Penang, Malaysia
phone: +6 04 890 8188 fax: +6 04 890 9189

The Never Ending Tales
Mike is recently busy working on his Gengkey's Characters Artbook, inclusive of 100 character design from his famous Gengkey series, all compiled in one book. Schedule to published at the end of this year. Due to his greedy behaviour, 100 characters wasn't enough for him,
he wanted more. So Mike comes out with this half year plan for another series of character design, which he named--The Never Ending Tales. It'll be featured in exclusively in our website! So please visit us from time to time (every month actually) to check out those cute but evil looking character pin-ups at our gallery section.

Imagine by IFS
Recently, we were invited to be included in an artbook by Singaporian based Imaginary Friends Studio(IFS). This 128-page books collects the works from more than 20 artists around Asian region. We are very honoured to be part of the very first IFS production. Thanks to Edmund and gang for having us and not to mention coming out with this book within such short period of time. Respect! For more information and to buy a copy(only 2000 copies were printed), click here.

Gilamon T @ Beautiful J
Beautiful Junk was successfully held on the 11th June, 2005. Venue were changed from The Fort to Dewan Seri Pinang due to the weather, but it didn't stop people from around the country to visit this one day festival of art and noise. More than 30 artists/designers contributed exclusive artwork for this event. Top musicians like Pete Teo, Damn Dirty Ape(DDA), Seven Colar T-shirt, as well as new comers like Mumsters, Ugly Man made some beautiful noise during that day.
We didn't do too badly ourselves as Gilamon launched 2 T-shirts and our ashcan #1.
One T was our own production and the other was a collaboration with Radioactive. The fine folks of Radioactive did a tremendous job in printing our design in embossed felt ink. You all can still buy the T from Radioactive outlets. Our ashcan #1 and the previous #0 was available for sale as well. We want to thank those who showed their support by buying our Ts and ashcans, especially those who bought both! The Gilamons also want to thank Chun Woei and the rest of the gang who organised this event. Good work, my friend. Lets do it again next year.

Exclusive Preview from Billy Tan
Here is an exclusive look at Billy Tan's(Marvel Knight Spider-Man, X-23) creator own project, Ghost Kid. The synopsis, as provided by MunKao(series co-creator and Billy's brother) goes like this:
Garlic grabbing, Latin spewing, holy water in a vial. None of that please. Ghostkid ain't your father's exorcist. More likely to befriend a ghost then destroy it. Jack(Ghostkid) runs an exorcism agency with his psychic granny, Ida in LA which has both exorcised and adopted many stray spirits and demons including a runaway demon princess and a 6 legged lizard who have both become Jack's best buds.
Jack helps keep the city "clean" with his sling bag of enchanted artifacts such as Chinese yellow charms, Mountain Dew that has been blessed and little holy firecrackers.
His methods are definitely representative of the cosmopolitan city he lives in complete with its idiosyncrasies.
Sounds good? Keep a look out @this site for more info soon!

Batman's Journey
Tan Eng Huat's long awaited project with Andy Helfer is finally being schedule for an August release. The 12-issue maxiseries dwell into the early days of the dark knight detective. Expect the return of Eng Huat's veru detail artwork to complement the intriguing story by Andy Helfer.

Graphic Art, Music, Sea Breeze, Food and the Fort!
Book yourself on the 11th of June 2005 and be a participant or an audience. Make a trip up north if u are not from this beautiful island of Penang. You might experience more than graphic design and music(hint: f.o.o.d.). What makes this event even more interesting is the location of this event: Fort Cornwallis. An expo in a historical fort, how cool is that? The Gilamons will be going up as well, see you all there! Check out the website for further info:
http://www.beautiful-junk.com/
So far, Gilamon has submitted our T-shirt n posters design, which will be made available on that day by the good people of Beautiful Junk. Michael and Lefty will definately be there while Sau Lim has to be at a Gempakstarz event down South. There will be a Gilamon booth and stuffs that go on sale would be our Gilamon ashcan #1 and #0 and there will also be some exclusive items that we will reveal later. Lefty will also be having a caricature session. On top of that, there will be bargain bin stuffs a-la flea market. We plan to bring our CDs, comics and stuffs to put up for sale so do come on over!

Gilamon Ashcan#1
Finally its completed and available. In this installment, Sau Lim's Agent Smith is back to kill more monsters while Michael go ga ga with his version of Major Zombie jr. Lefty brings you a (brief) discription of Major Zombie's living "room". On top of us three, our zine never lacks guest artists. This issue, honorary member Tan Eng Huat returns with a woody Allen-isque Batman. Not to worry, his upcoming Batman looks nothing like this. FYI Tan's Batman maxi series(with writer Andy Helfer) will be out in August, 2005. Check it out in this June's Previews! Our second guest is superstar Billy Tan of X-23 and Marvel Knight Spider-Man fame. Billy, who's also a Penang-ite now living in the States, sent us a sneak previews of his creator-own series, Ghost Kid. Billy co-created Ghost Kid with his brother MunKao. Our third guest is a very talented young chap by the name of Adijin. Adi's latest work for Devil's Due, Hack/Slash: Evil Ernie is being scheduled for a June release. Download Gilamon Magazine#1 here!

Shanghai! Shanghai!
On the 21st of April, Lefty and Tan, braving the chaotic situation in China, landed in Shanghai for a 7 day holiday. Lefty: "Turns out its much more peaceful than we imagined. No angry protestors, no one breaks our Jap-made cameras and people are lining up for their sushi, thank God! The next day, We were joint by Tan's collaborator(and sometimes mentor) Andy Helfer and wife Jaimie from US. Andy's witty characteristic makes this trip really worthwhile. Ok, ok... those DVDs are really cool too." (Lefty bought enough DVDs to organise a week-long international film fest- ed)

Hong Kong Fueyyy!
On April 28(the next day after Lefty came back from Shanghai), Michael took off to Hong Kong, the purpose his visit is to meet up with the local creative teams and to check out the various art exhibitions.
Fortunately enough, He managed to visit the studio of Brothersfree(Hong Kong well-known figure designers). Gilamon have great respect for Brothersfree because of their creative force and their hard working attitude. Brothersfree's Taiwan Exhibition also mark the launch of their latest book,"Brotherslife". This Epitome of a book contains ALL the figures ever created by the hardworking trio. Its a must have not only for the fans, but also for action figure lovers. Michael also manage to have a sneak preview on Brothersfree's latest figure project, which involve crossover with a well known branded jeans company.
That same day, Pixie's Mark Chang(Taiwan) was there too, at Brothersfree's studio, well....er... that's cool ;)
After the trip to Brothersfree's studio, Michael visited Tom Ho(Hong Kong well-known(again?) comic book artist). Tom is kind enough to share his working experience and progress of his work to him Michael. well, i guess our hero, Mikey learned alot of valuable lessons there!
Last but not least, Michael met his idol- Elphonso Lam, Hong Kong well-known(ya!) comic book artist/rocker dude!
And, you hear it from us first, Elphonso's new comic "Sexy Rock" is going to publish on a comic magazine call "Cheese" starting May this year.
Michael would like to thank all these people who was being mentioned above for sacrificing their precious time to meet up with him while he was in HK, "Thanks to all!" he said, weeping(as usual- ed).

Gempak Starz New Collections
Gempak Starz has collected more of Michael(C2V) and Sau Lim(Slaium)'s works into their popular digest format. Here are the latest editions:
GENGKEY XTANTS by Michael(C2V) - 108 pages, full colour, RM7.50
LAWAK CAMBEST by Sau Lim(Slaium) - 132 pages, B&W, RM6.50

Gilamon Sighting
What a pleasant surprise to see Gilamon#0 & the T-shirt we designed for "I Love T-Shirt" in Elphonso Lam's acclaimed journal "Rock N' Roll Burn"(Milk #184). Elf is a illustrator(+punk rocker) whose works attracted legion of fans, which includes the Gilamons (especially Mike).
Thank you for da plug, bro! We are deeply honoured.
(Note: If u can read mandarine, do check out Elf's illustrous journal "Rock N' Roll Burn" in Milk, a weekly trendy mag from HK)
Thanks to Kenny Brothersfree for passing our stuffs to Elphonso.

Drak
To all Malaysian readers, Slaium's Drak trade paperback(TP) is coming out in March. This digest size, 172-page, full colour TP will collect the entire run of the series (from Utopia magazine #26 to #39) and its sold for RM7.50. For our overseas friends, check out some of the artwork here. Like most DVD, I mean TP, there are a few bonuses added by Slaium and company (which, incidentally includes fellow Gilamon Michael and Lefty). This TP is also art directed by Michael.
Presenting here is a sneak peak of our work from Drak.

Gilamon In Tokyo
As we mentioned earlier, our t-shirt has been displayed at Tokyo's Design Fiesta made possible by Hide san. The fiesta not only expose us to the Japanese audiences, but also to some shop owners. Binary, which situated the the red hot Harujuku district in Tokyo, is now carrying our brand. Once again,our thanks to Hide san.

Will Eisner's Departure
Gilamons would like to express our condolences to the Eisner family for the recent passing of Mr Will Eisner.
Mr Eisner, to say the least, is one of the few individuals who lifted comics from the status of disposable dailies to the level of art. His endurance and passion as an artist/storyteller can be compared to no other. If we would live as long as he does, we hope we could draw as long as he does, too. But never as good.

Tsunami1226
Much has been said about this disaster.
Like Major Zombie, us Gilamons do not want to elaborate any further because action speak louder than words.
Help.
God bless.