#special comix

[paradisesystems]

Dusting off a classic to ring in the New Year. SC3, published in 2009, is one of the Special Comix series of anthologies, a whos who of independent Chinese cartoonists at the end of the 2000s.

[paradisesystems]

In 2016, Tang Yan, cartoonist and founder of the Special Comix anthology which collected so much work from the underground comics community in China, announced he would be holding a "comics funeral" to mark the end of his comics career. Yan Cong documented the evening in a hotel room where Tang Yan told Yan Cong and the other editors of Special Comix about his plan. [Image description: Black and white pencil comics of the four cartoonists meeting in a hotel and shopping at a mall afterwards. In Yan Cong's stylized yet intimate portraits of the other cartoonists, limbs and heads float disconnected from their bodies in a way that somehow doesn't look jarring at all.]

[giornalepop]

IL FUMETTO CINESE DALLE ORIGINI ALL'UNDERGROUND

IL FUMETTO CINESE DALLE ORIGINI ALL’UNDERGROUND

Il fumetto cinese è ancora poco conosciuto in occidente. Del resto, al di là della cucina, con particolare riguardo agli involtini primavera, ben poco sappiamo dei cinesi.

  Non sarà il caso di chiedersi chi sono questo miliardo e mezzo (quasi) di tizi con cui condividiamo il pianeta, cominciando dalle domande fondamentali?

Per esempio, i cinesi leggono i fumetti? Il fumetto è altrettanto…

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[orionmartinwriting]

I have a new article about Chinese indie comic collective Special Comix up on the Middle Spaces. You can read it here.

[juncen]

A piece of illustration for Special Comix 6, an anthology that includes a collection of posters by 45 artists. A Really exciting project.

[ph7the3rd-blog]

Under Colored and Over Colored: Tan Kai Li

The Changde-born, Beijing-based illustrator, Ms. Tan Kai Li, was first introduced to art in the form of drawing at the tender age of six. Like her inspiration, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whose choice of subjects reflect his literary tastes, Li’s creations reflect her musical tastes and the momentum she encounters in life.  With a musical palate that hungers for Electronica, Indie, and Punk, Li was never lonely in her creations as her loyal muse never fails to draw out her primal instincts and submerge her into the subconscious where the auditory impressions are translated into illustrated works.

Employing simple tools like ballpoint pens, markers, and watercolors, Li’s complex creatures roam the snowy white pages of her sketchbook boldly.  Down, lonely, detached, lost, suspicious, or just plain abandoned, Li’s characters are nothing but reality itself.  Li intentionally directs attention to the lesser optimistic elements of people to convey her take on the meaning of life, from a different angle. Though hopeless and minuscule, Li’s characters struggle to venture into the meaning of life, or at least maintain the hope of doing so, in an Old Beijing-esque world that has been both under and over colored. Or so it seems.

Education, Exhibits and Awards

1985  Born in Changde, Hunan Province People’s Republic of China

2007 Enrolled in China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Department of Printmaking

2008 - 2009  Awarded CAFA Honorable Student Exhibition Third Place

2009 Participated in the 11th National Art Exhibition in Harbin Conference & Exhibition Center with “Grandpa’s Xiao Hei”

2009 - 2010  Obtained CAFA Second State Scholarship

2010  Participated in CAFA “The Start of a Long Journey” Graduation Work Show

2010 Participated in “Fires of Heaven” Proud Gallery Recommended Young Artists Exhibition

2010  Comic work “Copy” appeared in Special Comix Volume IV

2010 Awarded CAFA Graduation Award Works Second Place

Contact Information

Tel：+0118613488661202 E-mail：[email protected]

Photos: Tan Kai Li's Flickr

Interview: pH7 THE 3rd