Time passes, Paradise Systems visits Art Book China and exhibits at Comic Arts Brooklyn. (Editor’s note: We previously reviewed Electrocat & Lightning Dog here.) Together they make a strong statement: there are indie comics in China too, and they are very different from the ones you normally see in North America or Europe. Electrocat & Lightning Dog is a free-for-all peripatetic adventure (in the vein of an over-the-top Adventure Time) while You Lied follows one long quiet and controlled social interaction. Out comes two surrealist, visually-distinct works.

( He even wrote about the former in TCJ in 2015.) This is Paradise Systems’ official start and when operations started in earnest.Įlectrocat & Lightning Dog by Bu Er Miao 不二喵 Martin begins with two works from artists he’s admired for many years: Bu Er Miao and Ganmu. The story continues as the cultural exchange swings the other way: bring Chinese works to the English-speaking world. However, This will be Paradise System’s last original English-language, American work for a while. Out comes Habit Forming, a clever story/allegory on online dating and the culture of work. It is squarely within the North American indie comics tradition. Wanting to foment a a cultural exchange of comics, he tests the waters by launching a print version of a short online work he previously created fellow American Ben Passmore. Our story begins in Brooklyn, where long-time translator and former China resident Orion Martin sets out on his publishing adventure. “Paradise Systems publishes exemplary comics from the United States and China.” This is the story of their first year, broken up into three acts.

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