Malaysian cartoonist Sam Hepburn makes her comic strip debut in the pages of Star2 today (Sept 9), with her original new series Welcome To Agency X.

Hepburn, 29 and of Scottish-Chinese descent, worked as a copywriter for eight years before realising her real career as a funnies girl. “The comic strip is about people who have a day job but harbour a secret passion – a dream job – that they dare not pursue,” she says.

Hepburn’s comic strip – Welcome To Agency X – started from a few doodles she made when she was in advertising. No one could have guessed that the Selangor-based agency executive would one day turn her office shenanigans and job frustrations into a cartoon series!

“I felt there was something more cohesive I could do with the strip and I wanted to turn it into a proper project rather than an ad hoc blog. I decided to turn it into a panel strip with a few main characters and a story,” says Hepburn, who conceptualised the series in 2013.

Welcome To Agency X features jaded