Sometimes, I forget the world is a big place full of like-minded people from all kinds of regions. How many of us have sat down to consider who out there reads our work? Did anyone, for one second, think of countries like Africa? Jordan? India maybe? Are we all that naive as to think, that simply because a country isn’t Western, European or from the Orient, that nobody else reads Comics, let alone Manga?

Shari and I had received an email the other day from a Magazine that ran a feature on Best New Manga back in April:

I came across your work in the Mammoth Book of Best New Manga, and
simply loved it.

I’m writing from FIRST CITY, an independent arts and culture magazine
based in Delhi, India, that engages with changing thoughts and evolving
perceptions, and connects with the energy of the city. The variety of
interests and concerns that the magazine explores is reflected in the
extensive in-depth, monthly features on writers, artists, filmmakers,
thinkers, actors, dancers, musicians, activists, from India and
across the world.

They’re running a feature about artists they admire from both India and abroad and had asked us for an interview and some artwork to be included in this feature for their June issue. The questions they’d sent were very good. They really made us stop and think. For now though, I’m only going to share the BNM review from April:

Fehed Said (Palestine – UK) and Shari Chankhamma (Thailand) collaborate on the spell-binding (way past bedtime) The Healing, the story of a half-boy on his journey to completion, a Master pushing him, a wish-fulfilling angel waiting to be rescued, and a climax that is definitely going to be in the next Tarantino film.
# read full review

I’ll post up the interview excerpts once the Magazine is out in June.