Category: Comic

Infernally Employed is an original series by Mariko Abe, based on the Japanese folklore tale Momotaro with a contemporary twist. In the city of Cosmopolis, it doesn’t matter if you’re animal or human—Big Tech is behind the wheel, ready to bulldoze anything that stands in the way of their profit. Stories in the Infernally Employed…

Tamaki Sakurai is your typical corporate consultant. Every week, they fly out of town at dawn to put in long days at the offices of Bettr, their tech giant client. Then at the end of each day, it’s back to a generic hotel for a grab-n-go dinner and a video chat with the friends back…

The Disadvantageous Demises is a collection of analogue drawings done during Inktober 2025. Each daily prompt features an illustration of someone dying in a morbid or humorous fashion, along with a rhyming sentence describing their demise. The Disadvantageous Demises is inspired by Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, only this time the adults are the ones…

A short comic contribution (2 pages) published in Hankerin’ for Ruination by Serious Danger Comics. Hankerin’ for Ruination is a collection of short comics inspired by song titles from the Guns N’ Roses’s 1987 debut album.

A letter to the creator’s past self on getting out of a low point in life, juxtaposed against visuals based on the Kisaragi Station Japanese urban legend. One-shot comic zine (12 pages) that is also published in OK to Drive: 2025 Graphic Novel Intensive Program Anthology by Sequential Artists Workshop.

On a lazy Saturday morning, a daughter shares a steaming cuppa with her father as she desperately tries to bond with him. Every time she points out their similarities, though, he shoots it down. A comic that’s almost-but-not-quite memoir. One-shot comic (11 pages).

On a dark night, a yakuza underling stumbles across the body of her patriarch slumped in his chair. In her quest for vengeance, she seeks the help of five famous detectives to point her the right way. Set in an alternate, fantastical universe where the yakuza co-exist with detectives and police figures from various pre-…

A building manager is making his usual rounds at an apartment block when he notices a door to one of the apartments is slightly ajar. However, the tenant is nowhere to be seen, so he decides to take a look for himself… Lunchtime is inspired by the short story 1408 by Stephen King. One-shot comic…

Sachiko, a five year old child, accidentally sees something she shouldn’t see on the front headlines of a newspaper. Her vivid imagination twists what she saw into a horrific nightmare which lingers even after she wakes up, so she has to figure out how to navigate the now-terrifying world around her. A comic that’s equal…

I created this comic for The Unicorn Hoax based on a story submitted by one of my readers.

I’ve been forced to watch Love Actually too many times by friends, so I created this comic during Christmas 2023 for The Unicorn Hoax.

I created an informational comic on supernatural entities from Japanese folklore for The Unicorn Hoax.

I drew this comic for The Unicorn Hoax while recalling that a company I worked at liked to turn down BIPOC interviewees due to “culture fit”.

I created this comic for The Unicorn Hoax based on a friend’s story about a coworker on mat leave.

This comic I created for The Unicorn Hoax is loosely based on stories from various individuals I have worked with in the past, who unfortunately felt they had to remain closeted for their safety.