Self-described as pessimistically, problematically paranoid; catastrophically awkward and klutzy; incoherently, corrosively, hideously inarticulate; reclusively, boringly grotesque; neurotically, apprehensively muddled, FSc (Foo Swee Chin) is rising to become a comic starlet with her original drawing style as seen in Nightmares and Fairy Tales by Slave Labor Graphics.
Windswept at the crossroads of cultures: facing western winds in the like of Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and simultaneously, eastern winds in the like of Akira Toriyama (Dragonball), FSc developed a distinctive style that is at once macabre yet kawaii. And if you must, she is what you get when you put Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki together: Nightmare before Christmas meets Spirited Away.
FSc's real-life low self-esteem actually works to her advantage. Her characters take a life of their own, each one possessing very idiosyncratic qualities, even asserting their right to live in FSc's real world. They become part of her world and her world, entirely theirs. She becomes the epitome of the unreliable narrator or comic artist: she cannot be trusted as she has lost her god-like authority to her own creations. She decreases so that they can increase.
Before we bore you with another unwelcomed rhetoric, we invite you to go through the rabbit hole and jump into this Alice and her not-so-wonderland: she called it a wasteland. In other words, read her free comics and... you they draw your their own conclusions.
