Paradise Systems 格物天下

Paradise Systems 格物天下

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🌅 We publish exemplary comics, often in translation. Find more at www.paradise-systems.com 🌅

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There is one story from Book Inferno that does not appear in its pages - the secret chapter Basement. In order to read this chapter, you will need come to Desert Island on September 17 (an additional viewing will happen during NYABF, details forthcoming). No photos of Basement will be allowed. 📸🙅

Book Inferno by Chihoi Launch Event September 17 at 7-9pm Desert Island 490 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn NY Image description: details of the book launch imposed on top of one of Chihoi’s graphite illustrations, depicting a chaotic card catalog at a library.

In a series of vignettes centering on books, lust, and punishment, Chihoi’s virtuoso blend of humor and pathos deserves a spot in every library. Image description: In Chihoi’s graphite illustrations, characters young and old navigate worlds shaped by books.

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i waited too long at zine dump and missed out on these DON'T MAKE MY MISTAKE

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Available now! We are shipping copies of Narrative Addiction 13 (2023)! This is the most recent installment of the long running comics magazine by Yan Cong and Zuo Ma. Both cartoonists have completed new chapters of their respective long running series. paradise-systems.com/products/nar...

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Image description: The cover shows a collection of sea creatures moving from left to right over a gridded background. Interior spreads show the diversity of work in the anthology, from Boilingman's blocky geometric assemblages to Pigao's carefully shaded portrait.

Image description: Screencaps from the blogpost. The first says "November 26, 2025 Interview with Toyoya" and has a brief introduction of the pixel art cartoonist. Later photos show snippets of the conversation, and two images showing how a hand drawn draft turns into a full comic.

Yan Cong's is a surrealist trip among multiple distinct but overlapping groups of characters, while Zuo Ma's is a fictional story about teenagers growing up in China in the 1990s. At the back of the book are advertisements commissioned by supporters that made the book possible.

Image description: The cover features a drawing of a videogame character walking into the sunset, stylized to reference the pixelation of classic arcade games. Further images show comics featuring a fist fight between two robots and Chinese school children meeting before class starts.

[Image Description: These comics are pencil-drawn. One panel depicts a person getting off of an alienating phone call and making a bowl of tomato egg noodles out of various objects around their apartment. Tomatoes grow behind the couch, and a lightbulb is actually an egg.]

Paradise Systems recommends: Cult 青年的选择 (Cult Youth Selects) is an underground comic book compiling the work of 15 Chinese cartoonists. Among the boom of anthologies from the late aughts in China, we often think of Special Comix (SC) or Narrative Addiction, but there were many others as well.

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[Image Description: A series of black and white comics of different styles. The images are bold, funny, and sometimes grotesque: circus performers, monsters, dead pigs, pulled-out teeth, a couple making out. The words COCK CIRCUS, CHICKEN KILLER, 啊!and 笨dàn are visible.]

Paradise Systems recommends: Cult 青年的选择 (Cult Youth Selects) is an underground comic book compiling the work of 15 Chinese cartoonists. Among the boom of anthologies from the late aughts in China, we often think of Special Comix (SC) or Narrative Addiction, but there were many others as well.

Brash and unapologetic, these 2000s comics ask what it means to choose: a life, a job, a career, a family, a CD player, a TV, or one’s friends. This group of “sensitive, intelligent and inspired urban youth” (”机智、敏感、灵活充沛的都会青年“) portray the restlessness of youth with a punk and camp sensibility.

TYSM for supporting our crowdfunding campaign!!! We are finalizing the book and it will be PRINTING SOON! At the risk of repeating ourselves, none of this would be possible without the incredible work of the cartoonists we work. Do yourself a favor and check out more of their amazing work!

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