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Sean Lam is a Singaporean author and artist. He is best known for his two part graphic novel adaption of New York Times bestselling Larry Niven's sci-fi novel Ringworld and a 32-page Pope Benedict manga comic where 300,000 copies were distributed for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid. He is also the creator of the graphic novel Geungsi. Early life and education Lam was born in Singapore. As a young adolescent, he was fascinated with drawing. In the 1980s, he was exposed to the various art from a diverse range of graphic novels ranging from Western comics to Japanese manga and Chinese manhua, which led him to gain a strong interest in this form of art and storytelling. He graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and specialise in traditional and digital art, graphic novel and story writing. Aside from his art career, he is also known to be an avid mixed martial arts and Tai Chi practitioner. Graphic novel career Early 2009-2014 Early work and breakthrough Lam's first foray into the comic industry was the release of It Takes a Wizard, a 480-page single volume manga, written by German writer Thomas R. Hart, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment, an American publisher of original manga-style comics in 2009. Two years later Macmillan Publishers published his two-part graphic novel adaption of the sci-fi novel Ringworld by Larry Niven, namely Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One and Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two. In an interview in 2011, Lam talked about hopes to bring changes to the art scene in Singapore and to hopefully attract and trigger the creativity in children in comic and manga art, saying “Young children are usually fascinated by the art when they pick up the book. I hope that my artwork can help them understand the emotional background of the set and characters, and bring them into that world to learn about the wonderful stories of faith and goodwill.” He then went on to develop several bible-themed graphic novels with American publisher Manga Hero, which includes Paul: Tarsus to Redemption, Judith: Captive to Conqueror, Many Are Called, and Habemus Papam! manga. He released a 32-page Pope Benedict manga comic which was distributed in August during World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid. This was followed by an expanded version of the graphic novel which went deeper into the life of Pope Benedict XVI. In 2012 he won an award for his bible themed graphic novel, Judith: Captive to Conqueror at Angoulême Christian Comics Festival in France. A 48-page paperback, Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy, was later created to celebrate the appointment of Pope Francis. 2015–2019 In 2015 he collaborated with the Four Lords from San Diego as the main comic artist for The Curseborn Saga manga, and together held a book signing at the Los Angeles Anime Expo for the launch of the first volume, followed by another at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2018, where his team got an exclusive interview by ABC 10 News. They are currently in works on the second volume of the comic and an art book with a consolidation of all his current concept arts and character designs for the story planned for release sometimes towards end of 2018 or early 2019. 2020 to present Throughout the 20s to present, Lam worked closely with his chief editor Junzi (also known as kingB, a contemporary artist and author ) over many past works, including his two new original comic series namely the Red Dot(later renamed Geungsi) and Goddess Punch, both which were introduced exclusively on his social media platform Instagram. Both works aim to appeal to both local Singaporeans as well as the international audience. Apart from working on graphic novels, Sean has held in-house art gallery showcasing his popular online series of Red Dot and Silent Night series artworks which he has also shared on his Instagram. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, he started art therapies and free art workshops for children sharing his latest children's illustrated storybook series Growing Up with you, a series of heart-warming local stories. In December 2020 he was commissioned by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and REACH to produce a mural to celebrate REACH Singapore 35th Anniversary, to show support to their 35 years of relentless efforts to hear the voices of the public as well as engaging in conversations with all walks of life. The mural aims to start off on an emerging stronger conversation to reach out to different communities in Singapore such as clan associations and youths, to enable participants to share their hopes for what Singapore could look like as the country emerge from COVID-19. In early 2021, in a NAFA news article, he shared more updates of his new long running graphic novel series Geungsi, which was slated to be launched later part of the year and also the first time his book is launched in Singapore ahead of its international release. In June 2021, he shared with Asia Contemporary Art platform Artitute some insights of his journey in pursuing his passion as a graphic novelist, and how he came about with the creation of Geungsi being his first written story that sets in Singapore, where he blends social commentary and detailed cultural settings with strong elements of Asian horror, myth and fantasy. American online publishing platform Medium followed up with an article on the book ahead of its launch in Sep, with sneak previews of the book production and a take on his new approach in the art style of Geungsi. In Oct 2021 he officially held a three day launch of his book Geungsi at the Singapore National Library in Singapore with a series of talks where he shares about writing and creating graphic novels. During the talks, he revealed that Geungsi is going to be a long running series with the apocalyptic story spanning across Asia to other parts of the world. He held a solo exhibition called Geungsi Art Exhibition 2021 in November to celebrate the launch of his first work in Singapore and was featured in Singapore's arts and culture guide Alist. In an interview with pop-culture Red Dot Diva on his Geungsi, he shared about how the title Geungsi derived from his love for Jiangshi films back in the 90s. He also quoted inspirations from music in the course of his work whenever he's drawing. In Jan 2022 he did an exclusive interview with The Singapore Straits Times and had Geungsi featured in The Sunday Times line up of hot-off-the-press home-grown books in Singapore. Adam Symchuk of The Grimoire of Horror and Asian Movie Pulse gave the book 4 out of 5 and praised the series being perfectly poised, which touches on a few different genres in an impressive manner and deserved, to bring further recognition to the region – particularly for fans of horror manga. New York City-based literary arts Singapore Unbound puts Geungsi as one of the must-read books in SP Blog’s 8th Annual Books Round-up 2021. In Jan 2022 Yuan magazine of Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations released a full lengt.... Discover the Thomas R Hart Sean Lam popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Thomas R Hart Sean Lam books.