FOR many anime and comic book fans, interacting with other fans is just as important as collecting novels, comics and posters, and watching and re-watching their favourite series (or reading and re-reading). Some of the most popular conventions in the world include the Comiket in Japan, the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, the Lucca [...]

Stories by TRINNA LEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my Every year, geeks from the East Coast of the United States make a pilgrimage to the New York Comic Con fan convention. It is somewhat a rite of passage that all fan boys and fan girls try to make at least once in their lifetime. This year, the annual New [...]

By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my FROM alien visitors to animated girls to estate thieves, the 2011 Palm Oil shorties (PO11) had a good variety of short films which were both informative and entertaining. The project, an effort by Fried Chillies Media to spread awareness of issues surrounding the subject of palm oil, aimed at not [...]

By NASA MARIA ENTABAN   THOUSANDS of young Malaysians came out in the rain to celebrate the Malaysia Day weekend at the Suara Kami Konsert/Karnival 2011 event last Saturday. Over eight thousand youths spent the evening dancing, singing and headbanging to music by local and international acts at the concert which was held in Stadium [...]

By Celine Thai and Tiffany Khoo THE students of Sri KDU Secondary School, Kota Damansara, Selangor, had wanted to celebrate this year’s 54th Merdeka Day in a unique way. So, led by the school’s Prefectorial Board, we set an ambitious task for ourselves – to create a mural out of the faces of 54 Malaysian [...]