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Key art for Cartoons Underground 2026, the festival’s 15th edition.

Cartoons Underground is betting its 15th edition on the next generation

Cartoons Underground began with an observation about where animation came from. In 2012 Vicky Chen, then 21, saw an industry whose focus was unbalanced…

5 Nov 2026Read the story

A tiger among pink blossoms, a colour fine-line tattoo on an upper arm by Nando.

Tattoo Art

Nando waited three years for his first client

When Nando opened his first tattoo shop in Seoul, nobody came. “For about three years after I opened, there were no clients,” he told the Korean paper eToday…

16 Oct 2026Read the story

Painting

What Adel draws is something only she can create

Adel remembers fumbling through the entire transaction. It was the first painting she had ever sold, and it was difficult to let go of. “I couldn’t believe it was actually…

8 Oct 2026Read the story

Cover art for What A Bat Heard From the Buddha, a novel by Kyle Neo.

Storytelling

Kyle Neo swapped drama for dharma

Kyle Neo never considered himself a writer, let alone one who writes about the Dharma. “Growing up, I struggled with academics, but excelled in asking the…

8 Oct 2026Read the story

A still from Signal Lost, the AI short film Auggie Ferns made in 3.5 days.

Film Direction

Some ideas take years. This one took fifteen.

About fifteen years ago, Auggie imagined a film about the environmental disaster we were heading towards. Then he went back to making other people’s films — commercials for the…

5 Oct 2026Read the story

Band

One gig alone taught ILLUMINARI to make their own sound

The first time ILLUMINARI had to play a gig alone, without their musicians or their producer, they learned something they had not expected. They liked it. The gig, says vocalist…

5 Oct 2026Read the story

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Cartoons Underground is betting its 15th edition on the next generation