Meybees (aka Elena May SJ) is an illustrator, designer and comic artist from KL, Malaysia. In their creative world, the mundane becomes extraordinary, and the ordinary becomes magical – exploring the fraught intersections between normalcy, surrealism, grief and child-like wonder. Their body of work spans children's books, graphic novels, zines, ephemera for various NGOs, animations and merchandising. Past clients include the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Feminist Internet Research Network, Atlantic Pacific Lifesaving Organisation, the Hindawi Foundation. and more. Their portfolio can be found at http://elenamaysj.net
Country: Malaysia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meybees
Website: https://elenamaysj.net
Primary Contact Person: Elena May Saini Jeffery
Email: elenamaysj@gmail.com
Contact no.: +60126403755
Business Name: Elena May Saini Jeffery
Address: No 5, Jalan 15/105,
Taman Midah, Cheras
56000 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Booth Type: STANDARD BOOTH (MYR 700) - Table with 2 Chairs
Category: Artist, Designer, Illustrator
Genre: Art, Design, Illustration, Zine, ArtistsBook, Literature
Website / Link to Portfolio: https://elenamaysj.net
Publication/Work:
Angle is a semi-fictional graphic novel memoir about repetitive injury, featuring anthropomorphic ankles, grief, talking to your body, New Zealand, anatomical injury and other evil triangles. It will be debut internationally online at the Shortbox Comics Fair from October 1st-October 31st - I plan to produce a printed / edited version for KLABF. If selected, I'd like to request that images relating to Angle are not published until after October 31st.
Catastrophe! is a graphic novel and I Spy book featuring a horrible, size-shifting cat that eats everything and pukes everywhere. This has been printed and sold overseas in the past but I have not previously sold it here in Malaysia. The book can be previewed on my website here: https://elenamaysj.net/catastrophe!-the-graphic-novel-i-spy-book
Alongside these two books are zines - 'Lucky Li-888 vol.1', the first volume of a riso-printed comic about a girl who can never lose a rock paper scissors battle and must defend the earth against aliens in luck-based combat, and 'loss is a blue dog', a zine about processing the loss of my mother in 2021. The latter will likely be updated prior to the fair. I do also plan on creating a zine regarding use of AI in creative fields collecting several of my posts from instagram.
Alongside these are a selection of materials that I plan to print, including prints and stickers. These are subject to change prior to the fair as well, as I plan on designing more (particularly stickers).
If better images are required prior to the fair, please let me know, as I do also plan on holding better photoshoots for my merchandise in the near future. Thank you for your consideration!
meybees
Meybees (aka Elena May SJ) is an illustrator, designer and comic artist from KL, Malaysia. In their creative world, the mundane becomes extraordinary, and the ordinary becomes magical – exploring the fraught intersections between normalcy, surrealism, grief and child-like wonder. Their body of work spans children's books, graphic novels, zines, ephemera for various NGOs, animations and merchandising. Past clients include the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Feminist Internet Research Network, Atlantic Pacific Lifesaving Organisation, the Hindawi Foundation. and more. Their portfolio can be found at http://elenamaysj.net
Taman Midah, Cheras
56000 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Angle is a semi-fictional graphic novel memoir about repetitive injury, featuring anthropomorphic ankles, grief, talking to your body, New Zealand, anatomical injury and other evil triangles. It will be debut internationally online at the Shortbox Comics Fair from October 1st-October 31st - I plan to produce a printed / edited version for KLABF. If selected, I'd like to request that images relating to Angle are not published until after October 31st.
Catastrophe! is a graphic novel and I Spy book featuring a horrible, size-shifting cat that eats everything and pukes everywhere. This has been printed and sold overseas in the past but I have not previously sold it here in Malaysia. The book can be previewed on my website here: https://elenamaysj.net/catastrophe!-the-graphic-novel-i-spy-book
Alongside these two books are zines - 'Lucky Li-888 vol.1', the first volume of a riso-printed comic about a girl who can never lose a rock paper scissors battle and must defend the earth against aliens in luck-based combat, and 'loss is a blue dog', a zine about processing the loss of my mother in 2021. The latter will likely be updated prior to the fair. I do also plan on creating a zine regarding use of AI in creative fields collecting several of my posts from instagram.
Alongside these are a selection of materials that I plan to print, including prints and stickers. These are subject to change prior to the fair as well, as I plan on designing more (particularly stickers).
If better images are required prior to the fair, please let me know, as I do also plan on holding better photoshoots for my merchandise in the near future. Thank you for your consideration!