Aligning satellites and fixing radio frequencies 🛰️ … Dial into our panels at @laworldcon.bsky.social from anywhere in the world and sync up with our creators for a whirlwind of science and speculative fiction! 🎟️ Tickets at www.lacon.org (link in bio) #LAWorldcon #worldcon2026

Book lover Aqilah (@aqilahreads on IG) might just be the IRL magical girl that everyone needs, and her incandescent whimsy is an affirmation of how growing up doesn't mean that we’ve outgrown the magic of middle-grade comics ✨ Watch the reel on IG (link in bio)

Can pink be a clarion call and whimsy an underrated power? If you've ever had the sneaking suspicion that there was more to your childhood obsessions than what *the adults* said about it, we're here to restore that collective magic. Look out for "Magical Sweet Gula" releasing worldwide Sep 2026 💖

You’re not seeing double 🔥🔥 Women everywhere have always been marked by history, and we’re taking our fiercest fight to the rest of the world. Read “Tiger Girls” by Felicia Low-Jimenez and Claire Low in English and Danish, now available worldwide through @maverickogn.bsky.social and Bogoo.

I know I said I was taking a break from socials, but I'm popping back in to share a couple of things. First, this excellent, thoughtful, and plain lovely review of WORK-LIFE BALANCE on @pages-and-panels.com. www.pages-and-panels.com/reviews/work...

Work-Life Balance — Pages and Panels

Exactly, how would the things of nightmares maintain their sense of identity and self…when working in corporate? The power of friendship, maybe? Or perhaps, revolution?

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Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social unpacks the unique video game lanugage that plays around with perspective and what players see or don’t see. 🕹️ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide: bookshop.org/p/books/free... #booksky #writersky

ICYMI: Just announced, our YA imprint, Maverick, presents the first North American publication of Singaporean webcomic Tiger Girls! By Felicia Low-Jimenez and Claire Low, lettered by @tayloresposito.bsky.social. First look on @kcomicsbeat.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4vM7VUq

Exclusive: Maverick to publish TIGER GIRLS in North America

Maverick will publish a North American print edition of Singaporean webcomic Tiger Girls with a bonus shirt story and BTS content this fall.

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To be born a girl in the Year of the Tiger is a death sentence.🐯 Maverick is proud to present TIGER GIRLS from Felicia Low-Jimenez, Claire Low, and Taylor Esposito available 9/15! More Info Here: https://bit.ly/4vM7VUq With thanks to @kcomicsbeat.bsky.social @differenceenginesg.bsky.social

Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology “Literature as a game. Gaming as literature. How are writers and artists interacting with video games, gaming, and notions of play?” (adult) @differenceenginesg.bsky.social Booth 3631 #ALAAC26 differenceengine.sg/comics/free-...

Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology | Difference Engine

Building on video game culture, experimentation, and play, Difference Engine brings a new collection of works in Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology. The pieces in the anthology draw inspiration fr...

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Marvellous Mammals: A Wild A-Z of Southeast Asia “Where else, for example, will “A” stand for the annamite striped rabbit?” @differenceenginesg.bsky.social Booth 3631 #ALAAC26 asianreviewofbooks.com/marvellous-m...

Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma: End of an Era “will certainly resonate with many, to see the physical demands of reining in grandparents who try to ‘run off’, well-represented too” @differenceenginesg.bsky.social Booth 3631#ALAAC26 www.lilbluebottle.com/amazing-ash-...

Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma – The End of an Era (Book #3) - Lil Blue Bottle

Graphic novel #3 in the Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma series is an awesome read - the series just keeps getting better, so we are all quite sad that this third book is its final one. Published by Diff...

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Meet MAGICAL SWEET GULA “a magical girl with the power to turn the things around her into cakes and sweets!” @differenceenginesg.bsky.social Booth 3631 #ALAAC26 www.philippinebooks.com/products/mag...

Magical Sweet GULA by Johanes Park & Jessica Leman

Gula Gulali is a magical girl with the power to turn the things around her into cakes and sweets! But she is a Magi living in the non-magical realm of Terra, where her bright pink hair and pointed ear...

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Add a little ✨Southeast Asia✨ to your kid’s reading list with the “Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma” series, and “Marvellous Mammals: A Wild A to Z of Southeast Asia”! These books are now available worldwide from bookshop.org and other major online retailers 📚 #booksky #kidlit

Too big. Too small. Wanting to feel special. Never feeling like you’re enough. “To the Last Gram” is now available worldwide 🧵 English edition: bookshop.org, amazon, or other major online retailers French edition: editionsduricochet.com #graphicnovel #booksky

Ishani Anwesha Joshi reviews HOW ARE YOU FEELING? A COMICS ANTHOLOGY, available from @differenceenginesg.bsky.social www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-review...

How Are You Feeling? A Comics Anthology | Graphic Medicine

How are you Feeling? A Comic Anthology is a collection of the first three issues of Singapore-based independent comic publisher Difference Engine’s DE Shorts imprint. This anthology portrays distinct ...

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SEE YOU AT TCAF, EH? 🇨🇦 Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social, here we come! 🍁 We’re so stoked for our first trip to Canada and are also super excited for our creator Shreya Davies to have her first-ever solo creator booth and beaver tail on the same trip 💖 #TCAF #TCAF2026

YOUR INVENTORY IS FILLING UP AGAIN Written by Wen-yi Lee @wenyilee.bsky.social A relationship captured in texts, polaroids, plastic bottles: an overburdened inventory that is also how full our hearts are ❤️‍🔥 🕹️ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio)

FAST TRAVEL by Adriana X. Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social The flame renews you and you’re back in your armour fighting for your life. You die. You reset. What is this feeling that you’ve felt before? ✨ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio).

SHADOW STONE by Erica Eng Go back to the feeling of being a young gamer exploring new worlds with people you’ve never met before. You might not win, but maybe you’ll find a new friend along the way. ✨ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio).

See all the pixels of “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” gathered into print, wrapped in @d.daddystar’s (IG) otherwordly landscape inspired by oracles, orcs, open worlds, and everything in between. 🕹️ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio)

snake on a train Written by Judith Huang Judith Huang’s visual poem captures the enduring tragedy of Snake, chasing down blips to feed a never-ending hunger. 🕹️ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio) #poetry #writingcommunity

IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE Written & illustrated by Anthony Falleroni Your backseat gamer is naggy, but as the game gets tougher, you realise that maybe they're also an encouragement 💕 🕹️ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio) #comics #videogames

THE WRITER AS GAMER Written by Alvin Pang Using the choose-your-own-adventure format as an analogue to life, Alvin Pang reflects on a creative life logged in game hours. 🕹️ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio)

We’re bringing Southeast Asian comics to the city of Chicago! 🏙️ 📚 ALA 2026 Annual Conference & Exhibition 25 – 29 June 2026 Find out books at: Publisher Spotlight (Booth 3631) & Consortium (Booth 3431) 📚 Children’s Institue 2026 26 – 29 June 2026 #ALAAC26 #publishing

PF Anderson reviews Delay - A Comics Anthology edited by Charis Loke and Paulo Chikiamco, published by @differenceenginesg.bsky.social www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-review...

Delay - A Comics Anthology | Graphic Medicine

Delay is a beautiful comics anthology, lush with visual, textual, thematic, and editorial details to unify it across the entire collection with many health-related topics covered.

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For @kcomicsbeat.bsky.social, I reviewed TO THE LAST GRAM, a fraught but hopeful narrative about living with a serious eating disorder. I've been really impressed with the work @differenceenginesg.bsky.social is publishing, and this is paradigm example of what they're putting out!

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Review: TO THE LAST GRAM thoughtfully explores living with an eating disorder To the Last Gram digs its teeth into what it's like to live with an eating disorder and its associated effects—physical, mental, and social.

BOYS AND GIRLS ACROSS DEAD WORLDS by Alex K. Masse Alex K. Masse revisits their past selves in the form of MMO game avatars and online spaces that have reckoned with, rejected, or embraced their queerness. ✨ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio)

DON'T START WITHOUT ME by Kenneth Lam The low dim of a LAN shop. An online game interrupted by a phone call on dial-up. These poems are of a coming-of-age found in video games, their rituals and intimacies. ✨ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio)

GOD OF WAR by Maya Escobar Kratos, God of War, blusters with toxic masculinity. But with Maya’s humorous observations, maybe under all that ⚡️Big God Energy⚡️is just a flawed man learning to be a father. ✨ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio).

Fanbase Press' Barbra Dillon Interviews @charisloke.bsky.social and @anitero.bsky.social on the Release of the Graphic Novel Anthology, ‘Delay,’ with @differenceenginesg.bsky.social

Fanbase Press Interviews Charis Loke and Paolo Chikiamco on the Release of the Graphic Novel Anthology, ‘Delay,’ with Difference Engine - Fanbasepress

The following is an interview with Charis Loke and Paolo Chikiamco regarding the recent release of their graphic novel anthology, Delay, with publisher

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