The Novella


A 50,000-word novella exists, to be illustrated in black-and-white. The setting is imaginary but without magic. The story is a poetic black comedy for adults. Interested publishers should email in the first instance, with a short assertion of their qualification to publish such a work.


Talks


iTik and eTok: The Bookless Home and the Giant Internet Magnet  Artistree HK 2011


The Golden Age of Book Illustration  Harting Society UK 2010


The Box Book  Art Culture Outreach HK 2009

Music  Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity HK 2009

Black-and-white vignette illustration  The British Council HK 2009 


THE BRITISH COUNCIL  Lecture Tour 2008

The Golden Age of Book Illustration  HK Book Fair

The Adventures of Tik and Tok  HK Book Fair

Living Books (Q&A) HK Book Fair

Young People and the Road to Freedom  HK ICC School (Talk for teachers)

Golden Age and Tik and Tok  HK Tin Shui Wai School

Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita  Macau Bloom Yellow and

HK Art and Culture Outreach


THE BLACK BOOK OF FALLING Lecture Tour 2007

The Black Book of Falling  HK Kubrick’s Bookstore

North  HK Pao Siu Loong Gallery and Macau Bloom Red

The Illustrator and the Cartoonist  HK Lim Por Yen Theatre

Picture-making  HK Polytechnic University

Combined Talk  HK ICC School


Tik and Tok — Smoke  UK One Tree Books, Petersfield 2005


Tik and Tok — Sirens  UK One Tree Books, Petersfield 2004


Tik and Tok — The Secret of the Universe  HK Fringe Club 2004


The Golden Age of Book Illustration  UK One Tree Books, Petersfield 2003


Pictures and Text  UK Bedales School 2003


THE BRITISH COUNCIL Shakespeare is on  HK 2002

The Illustrated Shakespeare (British Council, HK Space Museum, Schools)


4th HONG KONG LITERATURE FESTIVAL  HK Central Library 2002

The Love of Reading and Learning


Tik and Tok — The Love of Learning  HK Fringe Club 2002


THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK  HK Arts School 2001

What is Illustration?

What is Drawing?

Illustrator and Artist


Tik and Tok — The Storm  HK Schools and bookshops 2001


Tik and Tok — Where is The World?  HK Schools and bookshops 2001


HONG KONG ARTS FESTIVAL  HK Cultural Centre 1998

Old Tom Frost: Irony, Melancholy and the Dark Circus in the music of Tom Waits