Sayang Dayang, Sayang Dia (To Love Dayang, Is To Love Them!) is my comic thesis that I have been working and developing on at CCA for my graduate program, MFA in Comics 2024. This project is mostly focused on my own gender expression and trans experience growing up in all girls high school set in the 90's of Malaysia, with a bit of a twist! It's sort of an exaggerated memoir :o)
"Dayang is a high schooler who is able to transform into a henshin hero at will, however juggling being a kid, protecting their small town and going to school while having good grades has been tough lately. A new girl then comes into their life and things start to get weirder, surreal, almost too weird that it ultimately becomes out of Dayang's control!"
Sketches/Designs/Concepts for the Comic 2022
Dayang and their cast of nerdy friends who are huge geeks for superheroes!
Who is the new girl? Why is Dayang so anxious about her? Does she know Dayang's secret? Tune in to find out!
Comic Page Samples
Some photos of the physical copy :-)