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July 22, 2024

[PRESS RELEASE] Marked by History? Leave a Scar: Difference Engine Launches “Tiger Girls” as Its Debut Webcomic

18 July 2024 – Difference Engine (DE) marks its first foray into the world of webcomics with Tiger Girls, a new young adult fantasy series (...)

July 16, 2024

Difference Engine Travels the World: A Look Back at London Book Fair, Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and ALA 2024

Difference Engine signed our international distribution deal with Diamond Book Distributors in 2023 with the dream of seeing our comics on bookstore shelves across the (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

March 1, 2024

DELAY: A Comics Anthology

Update (24 May): Round 1 results are out and shortlisted creators have been notified. LOOMING MILESTONES, AND MISSED CONNECTIONS. RESISTING MAINSTREAM EXPECTATIONS, AND DOING LIFE (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)