FOREWORD MMCA Team We...made...it! Here it is, the second issue of Halftone, a 100% Mauritian e-magazine featuring our local talents. Alongside illustrations, mangas and comics, this time we have also included graphic novels and an exclusive interview with a professional comic artist. We hope to diversify our content a bit more while still staying manga and comic-centric, and you, dear readers, or should we say, potential writers or artists, can help us with this! Start as from right now, get your pencil and paper, write or draw! Keep the creativity going, jot down your ideas and constantly work on refining them, be it a story or a character design. Get drawing or collaborate with an artist to let your story out. Never say to yourself: “Ayo, dimoune pa pou lire sa”, “Mo pna létemps, kav apres mo ava fer li”, “Mo pa conne dessiner”, “Mo zistwar trop faille”... NO! Stop these thoughts! Just do it! Start somewhere, or in your old days you’ll just end up regretting why you didn’t actually do something while you still could. A paragraph a day, a character design a day, a panel a day, is already something. You can do it! We believe in your creativity, vision, and talents! If not now, then when?
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Table of contents Gallery section.................................................................................... Pg 04 INTERVIEW section................................................................................. Pg 21 ARTICLE...................................................................................................... Pg 24 Comics & Manga Section.................................................................. Pg 26
Red Sword........................................................................................... Pg 27
Sky Crumbs......................................................................................... Pg 54
Cosmos Fantasy.............................................................................. Pg 78
Psyche.................................................................................................. Pg 98 Beastiary............................................................................................ Pg 110
Pieter Both Village The Beginning........................................... Pg 131
Work Comes First(?..................................................................... Pg 138
Hopperman (Teaser)...................................................................... Pg 158
90’s kids........................................................................................... Pg 164
YONKOMA................................................................................................. Pg 168
Gourmet Grandma During Lockdown ................................. Pg 169
Paix ......................................................................................................... Pg 171
ENJOY!
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Gallery
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Cover by: John Paul Koo aka jpkoo (Artist’s name)
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