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March 16, 2024

All The Things She Said: A Look Back on International Women’s Day 2024

Just as much as it's a clarion call for equality, International Women's Day is also a reminder that many conversations are hard-won only by those (...)

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March 5, 2024

Stepping Into Other Worlds – A Look at Difference Engine’s 2024 Catalogue!

After many months of brainstorming, tinkering, and hopeful dreaming, we're excited to finally have our 2024 catalogue out in the world! In the works are (...)

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March 1, 2024

[PRESS RELEASE] Difference Engine Unveils 2024 Catalogue

Illustration for Tiger Girls 1 March 2024, Singapore — Difference Engine is proud to announce its 2024 catalogue which includes five new projects and titles (...)

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March 1, 2024

[OPEN CALL] DELAY: A Comics Anthology

LOOMING MILESTONES, AND MISSED CONNECTIONS. RESISTING MAINSTREAM EXPECTATIONS, AND DOING LIFE AT YOUR OWN PACE. A BOOK OVERDUE, A POSTPONED RENDEZVOUS.A SINGLE MOMENT, SUSPENDED AND (...)

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March 1, 2024

[PRESS RELEASE] What’s The “Delay”?: Difference Engine Launches Open Call for Second Southeast Asian Comics Anthology

1 March 2024, Singapore — Difference Engine is excited to launch its open call for Southeast Asian illustrators and writers to submit story pitches for (...)

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January 17, 2024

ROBOT PLAYGROUND MEDIA ADAPTING SINGAPORE’S 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR, GRAPHIC NOVEL “WORK-LIFE BALANCE”, INTO GLOBAL TV SERIES

Singapore-based animation studio Robot Playground Media (RPM) has picked up rights to Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers (WLB) by Wayne Rée and Benjamin (...)

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December 13, 2023

Meet the Creators: Magical Sweet Gula

Hailing from Jakarta, Indonesia, Jessica Leman and Johanes Park are the creator duo behind Magical Sweet Gula. Difference Engine chats with the husband-and-wife team about (...)

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September 4, 2023

Magical Sweet Gula: Gula Gulali discovers that variety is not the spice of life at school where her magic makes for sour grapes

Wouldn’t it be magical if we could just wave a wand and fit in? Unfortunately, in Magical Sweet Gula, that reality seems to be pie (...)

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February 18, 2023

Pangolin: A Critically Endangered Mammal Like No Other

What marvellous mammal has armour that will make a knight envious, and can curl up into a near-perfect sphere? It’s the pangolin! If this is (...)

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November 11, 2022

Bearing Witness: A moving graphic novel memoir about a woman in her 40s who comes to terms with pregnancy loss

Difference Engine is honoured to have had the opportunity to work with writer Vinita Ramani to tell the story of her son Mithra and her (...)

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