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Cartoonist, designer & researcher. Writing a graphic memoir and editing at Paradise Systems. More about me.

[lgdays]

I might have found a major bug in the Playstation download version of the game. I downloaded it 3 days ago and created multiple save files so that I could replay chapters if I wanted to... as soon as you reach The Core HQ at Warsaw though you can't reload it. I first encountered it while playing the chess puzzle. No big deal, I thought, and went to an earlier save file. As soon as I saved in the HQ again at a later stage I couldn't load it again either. Now on my third save I just beat Coyle and wanted to prepare for the finale battle, saved again, took a break, and again the save data is defective. Before I try for a fourth time I wanted to let you know in case it's a unknown bug.

Hello! Thanks a lot for reporting it, and we apologize for the inconvenience. We were recently made aware of a bug that seems to be the same, so to make sure, may I ask which version and language are you playing? Is it the PS5 Asia version?

[jasonli]

I have the same issue @lgdays (Canada PS5 download). I thought it was related to getting the bad ending but the saves that don't work line up with what's described above.

[paradisesystems]

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 We just launched a Kickstarter for a book we’ve been working on for over two years now - a brand new anthology of comics from some of the most exciting cartoonists in China’s alt comics scene! It’s called SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel ✨

We will share more about the book in the coming days, but for now we will just post a few pages from this stunning volume. Please support the book on Kickstarter and tell your friends! It means the world to us.

Featuring: Han Xiao 韩笑, Boilingman 保龄曼, Ganmu 甘木 @ganmuuu-blog, toyoya 李帆 @toyoyalii, Xiang Yata 象牙塔, KKCIT, Woshibai 我是白 @woshibai, Fiona Peace 和平, Tou Yeye, gantea, fenta 粉塔, Wang XX 王XX @anordinaryseal, rere 热热, Pigao 唐筠, Zheng Nanqibai 郑南七白

Image description: A mockup of the book on a yellow background. It’s cover has a grid with an illustration of a group of fish flowing in front of it. In the following images, individual pages by the authors in a huge range of styles. In one, a person struggles to remove a bottle cap with sweat soaked hands. In another, someone lays on a bed next to a pair of scissors. In a full page illustration, a cat leaps across a mainland China street, carrying three mice on its back.

[bynine]

NUMEL - WATER/FIRE

They live in herds in hot water springs, shielded from predators. They have a transparent lower eyelid that allows them to see while protecting their eye from the steam.

CAMERUPT - WATER/FIRE

While normally calm, if provoked boiling steam erupts from its back that can cook in egg in a quarter-second. It seems shy about exposing its true eyes.

[pngblog]

[oliwabiuuu]

微小的分裂

[wheniamamonster]

Donate to Gaza Family Evacuation Fund, organized by Sarah Barzak

Dear Supporter, My name is Sarah Barzak, a Malay-Palestinian living in Canada. I am reach… Sarah Barzak needs your support for Gaza Fami

A friend of mine has set up a gfm for their cousin still located in Gaza. They are raising $40 000 CAD ($29 200 USD) to support their evacuation and resettlement fees.

[feluka]

What a sweet and powerful gesture. It's frustrating when people say "what do you expect them to do? they're entertainers not activists!" look at how simple this gesture of solidarity is and how resonant it is! This is wonderful.

[paradisesystems]

Available now: Haze Cave by Pigao! We are so thrilled to add this important work by accomplished cartoonist Pigao to our line up. The artist designed the book with some unique binding and design features, and the printing came out beautifully.

Offset printing / color / 80 pages / 6 x 8.25" ISBN: 978-1-951078-10-2

Haze Cave is a semi-autobiographical story by Hangzhou-based cartoonist Pigao. Broken into two related stories, the first half finds the artist struggling with rent and displacement on the outskirts of Beijing. In the second half, Pigao attempts to return to a place from her past, only to find her memories lead her deeper into mysteries she cannot resolve. Throughout the book, Pigao’s fine pencil work and restrained palette beautifully capture a moment of transition and upheaval.

Image description: Photos of the cover and interior pages of the book, which is black and white with flashes of orange and cyan. In one spread, a couple drives through town while the sun sets. In another, a woman approaches a temple. Pigao's illustration often plays up contrasts between the sharp angular forms of buildings and the softer shapes of foliage and figures.

[kwshen]

Have been slowly compiling a short, annotated list of orgs you can support that are operating in Gaza and/or with orgs on the ground there where a UN Special Rapporteur is reporting that Israel's military retaliation against Palestinians is amounting to "mass ethnic cleansing".

Donations and emergency relief are obvious options in this moment, but you can also volunteer with these groups or join specific campaigns. List under the cut:

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders has a reputation for providing humanitarian aid in high-risk/conflict regions that other orgs will avoid and has been operating in Gaza for over 20 years. I linked to MSF's Canadian site but there may be an MSF branch in your country. I'm highlighting MSF because I'm a former volunteer with confidence in those I worked with and met at that time. But of course there are other aid organizations you might consider like the Red Cross and Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

Beyond humanitarian aid, you may wish to consider supporting these orgs that are playing a role in emergency response:

Amnesty International (Canadian site) and Human Rights Watch have both extensively documented systemic human rights abuses experienced by Palestinians. A part of their work involves the painstaking and critical task of verifying footage and evidence of war crimes which includes recently confirming Israel's use of white phosphorous in Gaza and more. Here's a list of Amnesty Canada's activities and campaigns in the region. Both of these orgs were instrumental in growing my understanding of the region - I recommend following their reporting because they will not drop off their coverage when the news cycle has moved on and there is so much misinfo and spectacularization of violence out there right now.

Last week, seven journalists were killed in Gaza and Lebanon by Israeli military forces. Check out Reporters sans frontières/Reporters without Borders or donate to news outlets investing resources and bringing quality reporting to the public from there.

Definitely consider contacting your political representatives (Canadian; esp if they are a member of Canada's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development) and the party you want to vote for. If you expect your perspective and interests to be accounted for by your government, you have to put in effort. You can start with a call for Canada to apply stronger/urgent pressure for an immediate ceasefire and add demands from there. You can email/call as an individual or look for or organize campaigns - letter writing and petitions, phone zaps, etc.

[kwshen]

Smelly Old Things

Kawai Shen on uncommon perfume, escaping the feminine youth cult and the transformative power of scent.

[paradisesystems]

We will be at TCAF this weekend! Come say hi at table 2002 and check out our books! Special thanks to @jasonli of Paradise Systems for tabling this weekend!

Image description: A smattering of books with "SEE YOU AT TCAF" superimposed on top, surrounded by an eerie blue glow. 

[jasonli]

COME PLAY

[jasonli]

Presenting Avatar's iconic intro sequence remixed with Chinese character to emoji transformations. Our book, The Hanmoji Handbook, features a different set of elements (💦🌏🔥🪙🌲 rather than 💦🌏🔥💨) but I still tried to slip an Avatar Ang cameo into an early draft of the book (unsuccessfully 🥲).

[text-mode]

PETSCII by redcrab, 2023.

[vpandav]

㊗️ドット絵タロットカード発売！🔮✨ ドット絵を愛する人が集結して、力を合わせて制作した“ドット絵タロットカード”なんと78種類フルデッキ！ついに販売開始しましたー！ https://vpandav.booth.pm/ 実は昨年夏から動いていたプロジェクトでしたが、79名(！)も様々なドッターさんが集まって、全カード違う人が描いてます😳 数量限定で手分けして販売してます！ 占いのお供に是非✨🔮 “Tarot of Pixel Art", created by a group of pixel art lovers, are now available in a full deck of 78 types! Finally, they are now on sale! https://vpandav.booth.pm/ The cards are all drawn by different people 😳! Divine your destiny with this! ✨🔮

[jasonli]

Unfortunately, the episode pushes an angle of Western saviorism meets primitive Eastern people. For example, one of its main interviewees, a present-day music writer in China is described as “never [having] heard a song about death. Never imagined music could be so emotionally complicated and layered” — after hearing a song in a Hollywood movie by The Doors. This same person, they narrate, grew up on “decades of communist party operas, sprinkled only with the occasional John Denver song.” Towards the end of his story arc, the interpreter says “what he felt about dakou, if you have to summarize in one word is—gratitude.”

Correcting the record (and oriental gaze) on Radiolab’s China Mixtape episode

[ghibli-collector]

Hayao Miyazaki’s Happy New Year Greetings Drawings

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[rrrick]

It’s true