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A six-panel illustration showing a person with blue hair in various scenes. They are seen working at a desk, reading a book titled “origami”, and taking a photograph with a camera.

Illustration: Beautifully tender comics from Singapore's Pixin Weng

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Date
24 September 2013

Pixin Weng is a comic book artist based in Singapore producing beautifully scrappy, frenetic images that leap from the page with their colourful energy. Her panels are created in a fashion that suggests a hasty working process with windows bleeding into one another and colours sometimes varying wildly from one frame to the next, but the heavyweight content of the narratives themselves is enough to confirm that Pixin plans her work meticulously before putting brush to paper, creating stories that deal with loveless relationships, surreal dreams and family tragedy with skilful tenderness.

A comic strip titled “Pairs” told through a series of hand-drawn panels. A person watches another smoke a cigarette by a window while a third person lies still in bed. The panels include dialogue such as “Please don’t do that” and “He is dying from cancer now.”
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Pixin Weng: Pairs

A comic strip with hand-drawn panels and handwritten text. Two people lie in bed, their conversation shifting from affection to a tense argument about illness and smoking.
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Pixin Weng: Pairs

A watercolour illustration featuring a comic strip and a larger scene. The comic panels show two people holding hands and talking, with text including “That memory kept me going.” To the right, a person in blue shorts stands before a dark window, looking at a row of colourful books on a yellow bench. Below the comic, a close-up portrait of a person in uniform is paired with a note that reads “Help me help you help me.”
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Pixin Weng: Pairs

An illustration of a comic strip with several panels. A person is shown in various states of distress and conflict with another figure, including a panel with the text “why do I let you hurt me like that.”
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Pixin Weng: Pairs

An open sketchbook showing a comic strip with red and white figures against black backgrounds. The panels depict a tense conversation between two people, with dialogue bubbles including the names “Brinsley” and “Jennifer”.
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Pixin Weng: Sketchbook

An open comic book showing two pages of hand-drawn illustrations and dialogue. The panels feature a person named Jennifer and a series of scenes accompanied by text such as “You’ve won again, Jennifer.”
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Pixin Weng: Sketchbook

A comic strip in nine panels showing a person with blue hair learning to make origami. They study a book, film their progress and upload a video of a green origami Yoda.
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Pixin Weng: Origami Yoda

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About the Author

James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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