Media Mentions
Difference Engine and its creators has been featured in the press. Check out some of the stories we’ve been featured in!
2025
• No Flying No Tights (Jun 6, 2025)
Amazing Ash and Superhero Ah Ma
Review of Amazing Ash and Superhero Ah Ma
• Fanbase Press (May 21, 2025)
Interview with the creators of Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma
• Channel NewsAsia (May 19, 2025)
CNA938 Rewind – “To the Last Gram” – Putting Anorexia in the Spotlight using Comics
Radio interview with writer of To the Last Gram
• Channel NewsAsia (Jan 28, 2025)
Daily Cuts – Pregnancy loss and the graphic novel
Radio interview with the writer of Bearing Witness
2024
• Publishers Weekly (Nov 27, 2024)
Panel Mania: ‘Sound: A Comics Anthology,’ Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke
Feature of SOUND: A Comics Anthology
• Catch.sg (Oct 24, 2024)
Fact or fiction? How the Chinese zodiac stereotypes shaped Singapore webcomic series Tiger Girls
Feature of Tiger Girls
• Booklist (Oct 15, 2024)
Singaporean storyteller Chew and Malaysian artist Nor’s graphic debut
Feature of Afterlife: The Boy Next Realm
• Lianhe Zaobao (Sep 2, 2024)
Feature of Difference Engine
• Publisher’s Weekly (Aug 20, 2024)
Review of SOUND: A Comics Anthology
• Comicsbeat (May 29, 2024)
Exclusive: Singapore’s Difference Engine publishing makes its international debut in June
Feature of Difference Engine and Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers
• The Straits Times (May 29, 2024)
Two books on grandmothers win Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award
Feature of Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma: Coming of Age‘s win for the Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2024 in the Middle Grade category.
• Catch.sg (Apr 19, 2024)
Feature of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers
• Catch.sg (Mar 28, 2024)
Southeast Asia’s supernatural beings come to life in animated adaptation of Work-Life Balance
Feature of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers
• The Star (Mar 19, 2024)
Super granny fights villains and dementia in ‘Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma’
Feature of the Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma trilogy
• The Straits Times (Jan 14, 2024)
Fun With Kids: Madagascar The Musical, Balabala kidswear’s first Singapore store
A listicle featuring Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma: End of An Era (Book #3)
• Channel NewsAsia (Feb 27, 2024)
Daily Cuts – Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma
Radio interview with the creators of the Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma trilogy
• Lianhe Zaobao (Feb 25, 2024)
Feature of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers
2023
• Channel NewsAsia (Oct 17, 2023)
Radio interview with the creators of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers
• Red Dot Comics Den (Oct 6, 2023)
Season 3, Episode 1 – Comic Contenders: Anthologies
Feature of SOUND: A Comics Anthology
• Publishing Perspectives (Sep 29, 2023)
Children’s Books Edition: Pre-Frankfurt Rights Roundup
Feature of The Makers Club: Game On! and The Makers Club: Starting Up!
• The Straits Times (Sep 22, 2023)
Local Creator’s Comic Magical Sweet Gula Released by Singapore Publisher
Feature of Magical Sweet Gula
• The Straits Times (Sep 7, 2023)
Graphic novel of MNC run by demons, volume on comfort women in Singapore win Singapore Book Awards
Feature of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers‘ win for Book of the Year and Best Literary Work, and Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma: Coming of Age‘s win for Best Young Person’s Title in the 2023 Singapore Book Awards.
• The Straits Times (May 18, 2023)
Arts Picks: Animated short Madu, The Glasshouse’s tete-a-tetes, and Difference Engine book launches
Feature of our joint book launch for Afterlife: The Boy Next Realm and Two Tails
• The Straits Times (Jan 21, 2023)
Book review: Mothers put under the spotlight in two new local picture books
Feature of Bearing Witness
2022
• The Straits Times (Nov 23, 2022)
Singapore Writers Festival: Hits and misses
A listicle featuring If You Spy With Your Little Eye: A Found Comic Scavenger Hunt commissioned by Singapore Writers Festival 2022
• The Straits Times (Nov 5, 2022)
Demonic co-workers abound in Work-Life Balance, a mix of prose and comics
Feature of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers
• Frankfurt Book Fair Magazine (Oct, 2022)
Insights From Frankfurt Invitation Program Fellows
Article with insights on the publishing industry from our publisher, Felicia Low-Jimenez
• The Straits Times (Jul 3, 2022)
Fun With Kids: New dinosaur-themed indoor playground, Disney+ animated series Baymax!, graphic novel
Feature of Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma: Coming of Age
2021
• Radio Grandpapier (Dec 2021)
Décembre 2021: Nicolas Verstappen
Feature of SOUND: A Comics Anthology
• The Straits Times (Nov 17, 2021)
Tragicomic menstrual tales from Singapore in new comic book
Feature of A Drip. A Drop. A Deluge: A Period Tragicomedy
• The Straits Times (Oct 3, 2021)
A listicle featuring Marvellous Mammals: A Wild A to Z of Southeast Asia
• Mothership (Sep 27, 2021)
Feature of Marvellous Mammals: A Wild A to Z of Southeast Asia
• Publishers Weekly (Jun 16, 2021)
Bologna Conference Seeks Answers from the Pandemic
Highlights insights from a panel that includes our publisher, Felicia Low-Jimenez
• How We Read (Jan 25, 2021)
Podcast on comics, with our publisher Felicia Low-Jimenez as an episode guest
• The Straits Times (Jan 25, 2021)
Book Nook: How comics help kids love reading
Article with recommended reads which includes The Makers Club: Game On!
• The Star (Jan 23, 2021)
Malaysian illustrator Charis Loke co-edits new anthology of South-East Asian comics
Feature of SOUND: A Comics Anthology
• The Straits Times (Jan 23, 2021)
New comics anthology puts on the page the sounds of South-east Asia
Feature of SOUND: A Comics Anthology
2020
• The Straits Times (Nov 22, 2020)
5 new local children’s books to check out over the school holidays
A listicle featuring Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma
• Asian Books Blog (Oct 29, 2020)
Interview with creators Melanie Lee & Arif Rafhan for Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma
• The Straits Times (Aug 31, 2020)
The Rise of Women in Local Comics
Featuring Difference Engine, with mentions of The Makers Club: Game On! and Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma
• Asia One (Jun 25, 2020)
Singapore’s Makers Club creates comic to inspire kids to explore coding video games
Feature of The Makers Club: Game On!
• Geek Culture (Jun 25, 2020)
The Makers Club Comic Inspires Kids In Singapore To Explore Video Games & Coding
Feature of The Makers Club: Game On!