Malaysian webcomic 'Fried Rice Comic' nominated for Eisner Award


Malaysian comics creator Erica Eng has been nominated for Eisner Award for her webcomic Fried Rice Comic, which depicts the life of a young girl living in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Erica Eng/friedricecomic.tumblr.com

Malaysian comics creator Erica Eng has been nominated for Eisner Award for her webcomic Fried Rice Comic, which depicts the life of a young girl living in Kuala Lumpur.

Published on friedricecomic.tumblr.com, Fried Rice is "a work of autobiographical fiction", according to the official description Eng has on the website. It also says the "finished comic is estimated to be ~200 pages in length". At the time of writing, Eng has published 40-plus pages of the weekly webcomic so far.

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