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Type: Fiction 25 Pages Published in Great Britain by Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd. (1982) Once upon a time in a country where the King is powerless and the Queen rules, the birth of a Princess was celebrated by ringing the bells in the great bell-tower in order to announce that an heir to the throne has been born. The bell-tower was inhabited by the good Bell-people; hardworking creatures who made the sound of the bells so beautiful.   The good Bell-people were out of job for about 200 years now However, for almost 200 years now, no Princesses were born in the country and the good Bell-people got so bored that they left the bell-tower in search of a new home. After they vacated the bell-tower, a bunch of wicked Bell-people moved in: they were lazy creatures and a complete contrast to the good Bell-people. And it happens to be that not long after the wicked Bell-people moved in, a Princess was born and the bells were rung. The wicked Bell-people were furious be

Type: Fiction 24 Pages Published in England by Award Publications Limited (1985) There were five little elves who looked very much alike and wear the same clothes, and they were identified by how many buttons they had on their tunics. The one with one button on his tunic is named One Button, the one with two buttons on his tunic is named Two Button, and so on. One day, the five went out for a picnic, and on the way to their picnic spot, Three Button – who was carrying some cakes – tripped and fell, and all the cakes fell into the water underneath a bridge. To make out for what he had done, Three Button offered to find some water to fill in their kettle to make some tea for the picnic. He found a cottage and asked the owner, an old lady, to have some water. The lady gave him permission to take the water from her tap in the kitchen. In the kitchen, Three Button saw piles of newly-baked cakes, and he stole five cakes to be eaten for his picnic. The other elves ate the cake

Type: Fiction 32 pages Published by Oxford University Press (1990) One day, Biff, Chip and Kipper were taken by magic into a dolls house in their room and were transported back in time to the Victorian era. There they met a girl named Vicky and a boy named Jack, and they quickly became friends. The three obtained a temporary experience of life in the Victorian era: they followed Vicky to help a blacksmith in his work and in return, earned a penny to buy some bread. Then they followed Jack to the Buckingham Palace. Apparently the three grandchildren of Queen Victoria were around in the palace and they were very bored, thus they befriended Vicky and Jack who trespassed the palace grounds every night to play with them. That night, Biff, Chip and Kipper joined Vicky and Jack to play with the Queen’s grandchildren, and the latter were very pleased to have new friends. But that night was rather unfortunate because they were caught by the palace workers. The Queen’s grandc

Type: Fiction 66 Pages Published in London by William Heinemann Ltd (1991) Ten-year-old Kim had just moved to Cedar Court, a large old house which had been converted into six flats and two maisonettes; her family had moved into one of the maisonettes. Cedar Court has an unkempt and apparently abandoned garden, in which there was an old sign saying the garden was a private property. When Kim asked her father about it, her father assured that the garden is now open for communal use. Kim also learnt that Cedar Court was once Barnado’s Home for the Orphans. About a hundred years back, a Doctor Barnado, a good man, picked up homeless and starving orphans on the streets and cared for them in the house. It was believed that there was possibly up to about fifty orphans who had lived in the Home before. Not long after arriving at Cedar Court, Kim began to hear whispering voices and voices of children apparently coming from the garden, when there was nobody around. There were als

Type: Fiction Pages: 24 Published in Great Britain by Buzz Books (1995) One day, Winnie the Pooh and Piglet planned to catch a Heffalump, a creature in which Pooh himself does not know. They got that particular idea in order to satisfy their curiosity after Christopher Robin mentioned about seeing a Heffalump. Pooh and Piglet dug a pit and planned to entrap the Heffalump by making it fall into the pit. They placed a jar of honey inside the pit, hoping that the honey will be a bait to lure a Heffalump inside. The jar of honey was Pooh’s last jar which he kept at home. After that, Pooh and Piglet went home and promised to see each other again tomorrow morning to see if they succeeded in trapping a Heffalump. That night, Pooh got so hungry that he yearned for his jar of honey back. So he quietly went back to the pit to retrieve the jar of honey. Pooh climbed to the bottom of the pit and ate the honey right there. Unfortunately he then got his head stuck inside the honey ja

(Originally published in German as Das Schlossgespenst ) Type: Fiction 79 Pages English version published in England by Burke Publishing Company Ltd. (1984) One day, a little lonely ghost who lived by itself in a castle felt so bored, lonely and sad. Wishing for company in its big castle, the ghost wrote down an advertisement saying it wanted tenants at its castle, and that rent is free of charge. The ghost put the advertisement on a board by the roadside. Not long after, a painter named Baldwin passed by the advertisement and was interested. He who brought along his dog Wuff and cat Princess, made a stop at the ghost’s castle to inquire about it. As soon as he entered the castle, the ghost had already left a message on the floor that says “Welcome friends”. Baldwin – though he had not met the owner of the castle – quickly felt at home and began to unload his belongings, including his paintings. When he saw a room with white walls, he began to paint the room walls with

190 Pages Published in Malaysia by Goh Kheng Swee (2015) The writer has got me! In the first part of this comic, the writer tells about the origin of the name of his hometown, Kuching. Although the city – the capital for the Malaysian state of Sarawak – is called Kuching, which literally means cat, how the name came about had nothing to do with cats at all. Due to the writer’s love for cats (I love cats too!), he actually joked about the city in its past had had giant cats roaming around and that all those cats had been petrified into statues due to a curse from an evil witch. I almost fell for it, haha! I initially thought that story was another version of the legend of Kuching which I had never heard of before. Once Upon A Miao is a collection of comic strips about a cat (with human attributes) named Miao, which represents the writer’s self. It tells various stories from the writer’s childhood and teenaged days growing up in Kuching, Sarawak. Other characters representing h

143 halaman Diterbitkan oleh Gala Unggul Resources Sdn. Bhd. (Ogos 2005) Walaupun novel grafik ini sarat dengan air mata dan kejadian tragis yang menimpa watak-watak utamanya, namun garapan dan teknik penceritaan Ben berjaya menjadikan The Fishes sebuah kisah yang tetap indah. The Fishes mengisahkan sekumpulan karakter yang semuanya berzodiak Pisces – justeru lambang ‘ikan’ yang membawa kepada tajuk karya ini. Ann hidup sebatang kara selepas kakaknya Angel melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negara dan seterusnya mendirikan rumahtangga di sana. Bapa mereka sudah lama meninggalkan keluarga untuk bersama wanita lain. Manakala ibu mereka telah membunuh diri selepas ditinggalkan suami. Pada suatu hari Ann telah terserempak dengan bekas kekasih Angel secara tidak sengaja. Ann menggelarkan bekas kekasih Angel itu dengan nama “Mr. Cool” (nama sebenar watak ini tidak diketahui sehingga ke akhir kisah ini sekalipun). Pertemuan yang bagai ditakdirkan itu telah membibitkan perasaa

Karya: Aliow 131 halaman Diterbitkan di Kuala Lumpur oleh Gala Unggul Resources Sdn Bhd (April 2006) Kulit hadapan komik Punch! ialah Edge, watak utama cerita ini Edge dan Wing, dua orang remaja lelaki yang dihantar ke Pulau Cahaya sebagai hukuman terlibat dalam sebuah pergaduhan di sekolah. Pada asalnya, Wing yang merupakan seorang “nerd” dan selalu dibuli telah terlibat dalam pertelingkahan dengan seorang samseng di sekolah. Edge tiba untuk membela Wing, tetapi akhirnya pergaduhan melampaui batasan sehingga melanggar disiplin sekolah. Kebetulan pula, ketua samseng tersebut adalah anak kepada Pengerusi PIBG sekolah, disebabkan itulah Pengerusi PIBG berkeras mahukan Edge dan Wing dikenakan hukuman yang berat. Remaja-remaja yang dihantar ke Pulau Cahaya merupakan remaja bermasalah yang biasanya terlibat dalam kes jenayah kekerasan / keganasan, kononnya untuk menjalani pemulihan menerusi suatu projek yang dinamakan Projek Matahari. ***AWAS SPOILER!!!*** Sebaik tiba di

Karya: Clay Diterbitkan di Kuala Lumpur oleh Gala Unggul Resources Sdn Bhd (2006) Pada suatu waktu dahulu, seekor helang telah menerbangkan seorang lelaki misteri yang cedera parah ke Kota Taka. Lelaki misteri tersebut bernama Shin. Pemimpin Kota Taka ketika itu mengambil keputusan merawat kecederaan pada Shin dan membenarkan dia tinggal di kota tersebut untuk sementara waktu, walhal selama ini Kota Taka sangat tertutup dan tidak membenarkan orang luar tinggal di kawasan mereka. Setelah Shin semakin pulih, tiba-tiba Kota Taka diserang oleh sekumpulan orang asing yang menggelar diri mereka sebagai Kumpulan Fathom. Ketua Kumpulan Fathom, Galbalo sedang memburu Shin yang dituduh telah merampas suatu harta berharga milik kumpulan tersebut. Harta tersebut berupa pingat kecil yang dinamakan Wing. Shin enggan menyerahkan Wing kepada Galbalo kerana menurutnya, sesiapa yang memiliki Wing boleh mengawal kuasa yang hebat dan tidak sepatutnya dimiliki oleh calang-calang orang. Wing ada

Karya: Clay 152 Halaman Diterbitkan di Kuala Lumpur oleh Gala Unggul Resources Sdn Bhd (2005) Ini adalah karya kedua Clay yang diterbitkan selepas Shadow Quest . Jangka Atribut bukanlah sequel kepada Shadow Quest , namun watak utama dalam Shadow Quest iaitu Zion ada membuat kemunculan kameo dalam buku ini. Jangka Atribut mengisahkan permusuhan yang berlaku antara dua puak iaitu puak Argento yang dipimpin oleh Durk dengan puak Noguchi yang dipimpin oleh Gonzo. Pengikut kedua-dua puak ini selalu terlibat dalam pertarungan yang kebiasaannya akan meragut nyawa-nyawa yang tidak berdosa. Durk dan Gonzo kerap memikirkan mengenai taktik-taktik untuk melindungi kaum masing-masing selain cara-cara menghapuskan musuh kaum mereka. Puak Argento sedang berusaha mengekstrak kuasa daripada sebuah batu hikmat yang dikatakan dapat melenyapkan puak Noguchi. Manakala puak Noguchi pula handal dalam pertempuran tanpa menggunakan senjata, malah sesetengah daripada mereka mempunyai kuasa pe

Karya: Clay Diterbitkan di Malaysia oleh Gala Unggul Resources Sdn Bhd (Gempak Starz) (Dec 2003) Kisah pengembaraan Zion untuk mencari bapanya yang telah meninggalkan beliau sejak kecil. Penduduk kampung di tempat tinggal Zion sangat membenci bapa Zion kerana bapanya pernah meminjam duit dari penduduk kampung tersebut untuk ke sebuah tempat bernama “Bandar Impian”. Kononnya sesiapa yang berjaya sampai ke Bandar Impian boleh menjadi kaya-raya, maka bapa Zion telah berjanji akan pulang semula ke kampung halamannya dengan membawa kekayaan dan harta yang cukup untuk semua penduduk kampung. Namun begitu, selepas 10 tahun, kelibat bapa Zion masih tak kunjung tiba, maka semua penduduk kampung merasa tertipu. Mereka melepaskan geram terhadap Zion dengan memaki hamunnya sebagai anak seorang penipu yang tidak menepati janji. Akhirnya Zion mengambil keputusan untuk ke Bandar Impian demi mencari bapanya dan membuktikan kepada penduduk kampung bahawa bapanya bukan seorang penipu.

Karya: Park Gyung-eun 217 halaman Versi Bahasa Malaysia diterbitkan di Kuala Lumpur oleh Anjung Taipan Sdn Bhd (2013) Diari Rahsia Si Genit Hye-jee merupakan sebuah komik pendidikan yang membawa tema ‘ coming-of-age ’ gadis awal remaja. Kisah ini diceritakan dalam bentuk diari watak utama yang bernama Hye-jee, di mana gadis tersebut banyak memfokuskan persoalan-persoalan biasa yang melanda diri gadis-gadis yang menginjak usia awal remaja. Antara isu-isu remaja yang dibawakan dalam kisah ini termasuklah isu rasa cemburu terhadap adik-beradik, perasaan kecil hati terhadap tindakan ibu bapa yang dianggap tidak memahami, perasaan minat terhadap jantina yang berlawanan, proses akil baligh serta masalah berkaitan imej diri. Hye-jee selalu merasa cemburu terhadap kakaknya Hye-mi yang lebih cantik dan diminati ramai lelaki. Selain itu, Hye-mi juga lebih cemerlang dalam akademik berbanding dirinya dan amat dibanggakan oleh kedua ibu bapanya. Ini menyebabkan Hye-jee menganggap i

Karya: Ohya Kazumi Versi Bahasa Melayu diterbitkan oleh Art Square Creation Sdn. Bhd. (2008) Terdapat tiga manga one-shot yang dimuatkan dalam buku ini, iaitu Segi Tiga Rahsia , Jejaka di Bilik 201 , serta Langit Biru Yang Bercahaya . Segi Tiga Rahsia Segi Tiga Rahsia mengisahkan cinta tiga segi antara seorang gadis yang terperangkap antara cinta dua orang jejaka yang merupakan adik-beradik. Suzu dan ibunya tinggal bersama keluarga Nakatsugawa sebagai pembantu rumah. Keluarga kaya tersebut mempunyai dua anak lelaki iaitu Shuuichi dan Shinji. Suzu menyimpan perasaan terhadap anak sulung, Shuuichi. Tetapi si adik, Shinji yang sebenarnya menaruh perasaan terhadap Suzu. Shuuichi seorang yang lemah-lembut dan sangat popular di sekolah, manakala Shinji adalah seorang emosional yang selalu berasa ‘ insecure ’ kerana abangnya lebih popular, hebat dan diminati ramai gadis. Shinji dapat menghidu perasaan Suzu terhadap abangnya; oleh itu dia semakin berasa tergugat dan tidak sen

Karya: Kikuchi Kamaro Versi Bahasa Melayu diterbitkan oleh CLB Enterprise Sdn. Bhd. Manga ini mengandungi dua manga one-shot iaitu “ Puteri ” dan “ Dilarang Masuk ”. Nota: Saya berasa kurang yakin sama ada manga ini merupakan karya Kikuchi Kamaro atau tidak. Ini kerana hasil lukisannya agak berbeza dengan lain-lain karya Kikuchi Kamaro yang lebih popular. Puteri Puteri mengisahkan anak perempuan sulung keluarga Eda yang kaya, Ayako, yang ditunangkan dengan Yoko, lelaki yang selama ini menjadi pengawal peribadi untuk keluarga tersebut. Pada Ayako, pertunangan ini adalah lebih kepada keputusan ibu bapa mereka sahaja sedangkan mereka tidak pernah bercinta langsung. Ayako yakin Yoko bersetuju dengan pertunangan tersebut kerana beliau sekadar melakukan tanggungjawabnya berkhidmat untuk keluarga Eda. Apa yang menjadi masalah bagi Ayako adalah kerana dia telah jatuh hati terhadap Yoko. Selepas pertunangan mereka, Yoko telah pun meluahkan perasaan cintanya terhadap Ayako, t

Type: Manga 276 Pages English version published in the United States by Kodansha Comics (2011) Minako Aino is a 13-year-old middle school student who has athletic skills but likes to play video games and hates to study. One day, she was approached by a talking male cat by the name of Artemis, who told her that she had been chosen by destiny to protect the world from evil. Minako was given a special pen and compact mirror which she can use to fight evil forces. When Minako is in fighting mode, she will transform into Sailor Venus / Sailor V. The mysterious Artemis reported to someone whom he called “Boss”. In order to train Minako into a full-fledged “Champion of Justice” the way she likes it, Artemis engaged the help of Boss to create an arcade game called Sailor V that will help her upgrade her fighting skills every time she played the game. The game machine was placed at the Crown Game Center which Minako frequented. Apparently, Sailor V’s command center – where Mina

Type: Manga 287 pages English version published in the U.S.A by Kodansha Comics (2011) Sailor V’s encounters with agents and minions from the Dark Agency continued in this second and final volume of Codename Sailor V . This time she battled out with agents deVleene and Founde, both of whom manipulated women’s insecurities regarding their physical appearance to extract energy from them. She also faced the final agent from the Dark Agency, Lin-Lin. At the same time, a new popular idol known as Phantom Ace made his debut on television shows. Minako, who likes idols and handsome guys, also made up a part of Phantom Ace’s fan base. However, he was a very mysterious figure who apparently had some ethereal powers. He had helped Sailor V in three occassions: once to neutralize the damage done by deVleene, which Sailor V was unable to reverse, and the other two times he himself killed Founde and Lin-Lin, respectively, when they almost endangered Sailor V’s life. That has made Minako

Type: Manga 197 Pages English version published in New York by Kodansha Comics (2013) This book is a collection of seven short stories featuring the characters in the manga Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon . These short stories originally appeared together as a side story in the full manga, but the English version apparently had these stories extracted from the full manga and have them published in a book of its own. The first three stories in the book features Chibi-Usa as the main character, which are compiled into the "Chibi-Usa's Picture Diary" series. The first "Chibi-Usa's Picture Diary" chapter, Beware of the Transfer Student , is about Chibi-Usa who had just enrolled at grade school. There is a transfer student in her class named Lilica Hubert, who is said to be the daughter of the Ambassador of Country U.  The mysterious Lilica, who is pretty and popular among the boys, lives at the embassy compound.  Lilica always went home early and ac