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Somsri in the City is an “ironic” story, represented by an office-working girl “Somsri”, who lives in Bangkok with a “love & hate” feeling. The story inspired from the stereotype/dramatical situation, about a standard living in Bangkok. It's about stories that they are gonna laugh at, because it wouldn’t be easy to change the way of it.
This comic was published by Urban Creature in 2020-2021. |
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เที่ยวทั่วบ้าน /Tiew-Tua-Baan or Travel around the house is a story, when Somsri couldn’t travel outside Thailand, even outside her house because of a Pandemic. She finds ways to do things, which can be related to things that she does outside normally. From comic: Instead of a trekking trip in Nepal, she does a big cleaning day and climbs a wardrobe. Instead of an Onsen trip in Japan, she takes a bath with a severnior bath salt from her old trip. Instead of a trip to Chiangmai, she meets a wildfire problem in Bangkok which happened in Chiangmai. Read a comic on Urban Creature site here. |
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หน้ากากแห่งความลับ or a secret mask Somsri shows some of her fancy ideas for a new year party. Inspired from daily stuff around her life. From comic A Santa mask inspired from a santa-claus beard A Lazada mask inspired from a waste after online shopping. Lazada is a well-known online shopping site in Asia. A tote bag mask inspired from the situation, that most people bought a non-plastic bag and intend to reduce plastic waste. Anyway they mostly forgot to bring the bag with them when shopping. So it seems like they make another waste instead. An all-in-one office-worker Mask inspired from her ironic working life. With this mask she can do everything the boss says to her. Read a comic on Urban Creature site here. |
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มีสตางค์อย่าลืมพกสติ or a lucky color From comic Somsri believes in a lucky color. A night before a very important meeting she prepares every lucky-color stuff she needs. By travelling she brings her lucky-color purse but forgot money for a bus ticket. Luckily she suddenly meets her old colleague on a bus and has to borrow him some money for a ticket. After this shock situation she realises what a real important thing is. Read a comic on Urban Creature site here. |
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เบอร์มงคล or A lucky number Somsri got some advice from an anonymous person (in Thailand people say “someone told me that…”) to change tel. Number, because it could make her life luckier or better. So she does that but it stills the same as before. After that for a while she realises that because she forgot to tell everyone her new number. Read a comic on Urban Creature site here. |
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กรุงเทพเมืองร้างคู่ or Bangkok, a city for a single person Somsri reads a horoscope app. It shows that she will meet her soul-mate soon. After that she thinks this is such silly advice. “How could she meet her soul mate, when she needs a long time for public transportation, just going to work and going back home.” At last she changes to using a Dating-app instead. Read a comic on Urban Creature site here. |
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© Mayha Suaysom
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