Media Mentions

Difference Engine and its creators has been featured in the press. Check out some of the stories we’ve been featured in!

2024

• 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

2023

• Channel NewsAsia (Oct 17, 2023) 

Daily Cuts – Monsters At Work

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) 

Fun With Kids: Eat rainbow bread with healthy ice cream, watch new take on fairy tales, learn about wildlife in South-east Asia

A listicle featuring Marvellous Mammals: A Wild A to Z of Southeast Asia

• Mothership (Sep 27, 2021) 

Alphabet book created by S’poreans features Southeast Asian mammals like colugo & Raffles’ banded langur

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) 

Comic Relief 

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) 

What’s The Deal With Graphic Novels? Elaine Chiew Chats with Melanie Lee and Arif Rafhan on their collaboration for Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma

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!