RUSH is a lighthearted sci-fi adventure comic set within an urban, time-travelling South Africa. The story follows Sebastian and Donnay - an unlikely pair brought together by a disastrous sequence of events.

This is an Afromanga I produced alongside Eric Gardiner for our Honours research project. The project aimed to not only explore comic and manga formats; but also solidify Afromanga as a viable visual storytelling medium for African contemporary creatives.

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The first issue is featured in the Blood, Sweat and Ink compendium, which you can learn more about here!

Laura and her friends have the best after school hangout: her grandmother's International Half-Museum. Filled to the brim with half-trinkets and artefacts, the whole place oozes with adventure.

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When Laura discovers that her grandmother has been kidnapped, she and her friends find themselves sucked into an epic tale of their own. With nothing but their wits and a trail of sticky notes, our band of heroes must traverse through one of history's greatest mysteries to find their own way home.  

The HMAS is a middle-grade children's novel that I both wrote and illustrated for my final Honours project. Overall, the whole project took three months to complete from early concepts, outlines and planning to a final 'dummy manuscript' formatted and typeset with Scribus. Although it's still very much a first draft, and in need of lots of revision, its near-30K words contribute to the longest piece of creative prose that I have ever written. 

The novel consists of 130 pages of original prose and a glossary; three fully rendered illustrations; two maps; two front covers; and various black and white diagrams - all fully formatted into a 6-inchx9-inch manuscript. You can have a look at the full manuscript here!