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bkk UNZINE art magazine aims to showcase the talents of artists and to bring creativity and community to audiences around the world.
Every month, a new curation from different notable artists is presented under a unique theme. bkk UNZINE is dedicated to promoting both established & up-and-coming talent. The following month’s theme is announced in each issue and we welcome all to submit artwork.
COME WHAT MAY
Welcome!
This is shaping up to be a busy month for us at bkk UNZINE, with an appearance at Mega Plaza Saphan Lek for Hobby Village to kick off the month and also an opening for March featured artist Coconut’s beautiful art and upcoming book on life in Thailand on the 17th at UNZINE 95. On the 21st and 22nd, be sure to check out our very special Art Bazaar event hosted at sumptuous Indian restaurant Chit Chaat located in Soi Sukhumvit 24 near BTS Phrom Phong station, featuring an array of local artists, cool merchandise, guided workshops and discounts on Chit Chaat’s delicious food offerings.
Thanks to the wonderfully talented Top, AKA ImAimDoodles, for this month’s theme of “Toxic.” Always a welcome presence at bkk UNZINE, Top had always impressed us with his craft… and paradoxically his lovely energy and overall pleasant manner is anything but toxic! We’re thrilled to have him as this month’s featured artist and don’t miss both his text and video interviews.
Again, we’re grateful to our contributors for another amazing issue and their own interpretations of “toxic,” including perhaps our first amusingly tongue-in-cheek performance art submission. We also have another stunning “one to watch” in our Comics Corner feature, Thuntopia.
And of course, you’re all welcome to gather in the air conditioning at our studio UNZINE 95 for our weekly Comics Club and Monday Night DRAW!, still ongoing… Every Sunday morning learn about how to make comics from our very own Sketchman Boris and on Monday evenings drop by for a free-wheeling and lively time with fellow creatives…
Enjoy!
Next month’s theme is...
Accepting submissions NOW through 25 JUNE
TOXIC: LOVE BOMBING
by IMAIMDOODLES
digital painting
"I LOVE BOMBING"
Why can love be toxic? Is it like oxygen? People can’t live without it, but we can’t handle pure oxygen, right? The very thing we need to breathe can also poison us.
Maybe love works the same way, somehow.
Maybe it depends on how we define it.
Some people label attachment or trauma as love. Some romanticize sacrifice as love. Why does someone have to suffer to be loved? Then what is love, really? So can demolition be an act of love too?
artwork & description by:
IMAIMDOODLES
PLAGUE DOCTORS BACK FOR COVID-19
by PHILIPPE SCHULZINGER
ink fineliners on sketchbook paper
During the Covid pandemic and the rise of unknown for the future of humanity, the image of plague doctors from medieval times came to my mind, sometimes to spread special medicine powder to kill the virus...
The second drawing is a tribute to the movie "12 Monkeys" from Terry Gilliam, when everything starts from a toxic virus wiping out 99% of humanity...
artwork & description by:
PHILIPPE SCHULZINGER
WEAVE OUT
by CARLA VISSER
marker & ink
I was imagining a parasitic fungi infecting and spreading on/in a locust, controlling the insect without mercy. The fungi uses the mobility of the poisoned and zombified locust to spread its spores.
artwork & description by:
CARLA VISSER
GOOD DOCTOR
by BIGEGGS BLACK PEN
pen on paper
"Humanity has always strived to be free, but no one will ever be free so long as there is something toxicated."
- Good Doctor
artwork & description by:
BIGEGGS BLACK PEN
NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD
by MC REDMAN
oil on board
This piece, from the “Artefact” collection, explores society’s relationship with pop culture and how this impacts our roles and understanding of the world. Inspired by tangible image objects ,it explores the flattening of aesthetic communication through digital commodification. The series comprises magazine cuttings, explorations of familiar cultural ephemera, particularly of pop culture, based on the idea that these are the art/design products that are the most egalitarian and accessible to the public. The piece, “Nothing Tastes as Good as Being Redacted Feels,” challenges social hierarchies we superimpose via visual media using the language of traditional art.
artwork & description by:
MC REDMAN
TOXIC TRAP
by CASSANDRA JEAN GRINDALL
multimedia collage based on personal watercolor, pencil sketch, digital compositing and various A.I. models
In a homage to the space opera comic books of the 50's and 60's, I created a comic book story to show my protagonist reading a story in a comic book about their life inside a comic book written by a biographer. So this is the base level of a nested inception of comic books that describe the hidden story of a robot that decided to be free to save their creator and must live with watching their beloved die in the cold vacuum of space. Hidden in the style of that 50s space opera comic are clues to the hidden truth about the death of the robot ethics programmer, Leda Elizabeth Swan, who in 2042 gave up her life and status of Queen of the Moon by returning to Earth to save her only son, Pieter, only to be captured by the cyborg army of the Green Star under the evil Artificial Intelegence Angel Sinopla. (LOVE & JOY, 04-22)
artwork & description by:
CASSANDRA JEAN GRINDALL
ME
by MICHAEL PACHIDAMRONG
photograph
I had experimented with multiple drawings to match the theme, but with no success.
A friend mentioned that everyone seems to agree my picture would be perfect for this month’s theme. When I asked if I should behave in a way that fits the theme, they said using a photo of myself would be sufficient. They also said it’s my best idea yet… and probably ever will be.
Since the editor approved it, I assume he also agrees it fits the theme effortlessly.
photo credit: @baitan.bz
artwork & description by:
MICHAEL PACHIDAMRONG
THINGS I WAS NEVER TAUGHT TO SAY
by HTOO KHANT SAN
zine
This zine reflects my experience of growing up in Southeast Asia, where queer identity is often left unspoken. I explore the silence shaped by family, school, religion, and social expectations— spaces where I was never given the language to understand myself. Through this work, I try to reclaim those missing words and give form to feelings that were once suppressed. It is both personal and collective, a quiet resistance against invisibility, and an attempt to make space for voices like mine to exist, be seen, and be heard.
artwork & description by:
HTOO KHANT SAN
At bkk UNZINE, we are lovers of comics and every month we’ll be shining a spotlight on comics projects worthy of attention. Remember to check out our Comics Club every Sunday at UNZINE 95, hosted by bkk UNZINE founder Sketchman Boris, and have fun learning about different aspects of making comics!
We’re proud to announce that bkk UNZINE’s next BKK Comics Art Festival will host the first ever Monsoon Awards, celebrating pan-Asian comics. If you’re an Asian comics creator, submit your comic for consideration and be a part of this historic event! The deadline is 31 May; see here for more information.
Continuing Comics Corner’s “One to Watch,” where we bring you local comics creators whose work we feel deserves a closer look, this month features the self-published original works of Thuntopia.
His latest comic series Mamuel: Omega Apotheosis, is a dark ancient fantasy. The first volume has been published and 5 volumes are planned.
Also featured is Marmel, a sci-fi-romantic comic series, which had already been completed in 3 volumes.
To follow Thuntopia and see more of his comics and illustrations, links to his social media can be found at his artist profile here.
artwork & description by:
THUNTOPIA
bkk UNZINE is grateful for your continued readership and is extremely proud to share the artwork of our talented contributors with all of you, our valued art community.
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next month’s theme is…
Accepting submissions NOW through 25 JUN 2026
