Launch Party of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12022-12-05T21:34:34+08:00Peatixreadcomics@differenceengine.sgLaunch Party of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancerstag:peatix.com,2022:event-33880282022-11-05T20:30:00SGT2022-11-05T20:30:00SGTThe Company invites you to the book launch of Work Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers, a prose-comic hybrid that intertwines familiar Asian mythology in an even more familiar setting: the realm of dead-end work, glass ceilings, and truly hellish bosses.Bring your nightmares to life and come dressed as your favourite Southeaast Asian creatures. Get ready to party with pontianaks, manananggals, raksasis, and ba jiao guis! Best-dressed ghoul will win a limited edition Work-Life Balance Starter Pack, which includes a signed copy of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers.Come face-to-face with your fears and learn how Benjamin Chee and Wayne Rée conjured an entire universe of chaos and mayhem. What work experiences led them down the path of no return? Sign up for a slot at the book launch today and sneak a peek through our portal to a new dimension. This is an in-person event at The Arts House, Gallery II with on-site book sales of Work Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers and the opportunity to get your copy signed by the creators. Please email us at readcomics@differenceengine.sg if you have any accessibility requirements.This book launch is held at the Singapore Writers Festival 2022. About Work Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers:When a menacing multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, manananggals, raksasis, and ba jiao guis are forced out of their jobs. Some give in and sign up for mundane corporate life – but others would rather fight than join the broken-spirited hordes of the (desk)bound.Benjamin Chee’s comics and Wayne Rée’s prose intertwine in this collection to bring you familiar Asian mythology in an even more familiar setting: the realm of dead-end work, glass ceilings, and truly hellish bosses.About The Speakers: Benjamin Chee works as an artist in games, and creates comics in his free time. He created Charsiew Space, a story about smugglers in spaceships. He has published six other titles since then, and has also been collected in anthologies such as LONTAR Issue #5, Liquid City Vol. 3, Asian Monsters and SOUND: A Comics Anthology. Find him online at charsiewspace.com Wayne Rée is the co-creator of the prose/comics mash-up, Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers, and the short comic about mental health, Worlds Apart: A Conversation About Mental Health. His work’s been included in several fiction publications, most notably Infinite Worlds Magazine and LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. He is also the co-creator of the narrative podcast, Ghost Maps. Find him online at waynereewrites.comShreya Davies (moderator) is the assistant editor at Difference Engine, and has worked on editing comics, as well as literary fiction and non-fiction publications. Her writing has appeared in The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Vol 4) and Mahogany Journal. She never leaves home without a book in tow. Find out more about Difference Engine at differenceengine.sg Updatestag:peatix.com,2022-10-19 03:02:192022-10-19 03:02:19The event description was updated. Diff#1278793