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Beijing-based cartoonist and contemporary artist Yan Cong describes his daily life during the quarantine. These comics date back to January 29, 2020, less than a week after the Wuhan lockdown began, when many across the country were cancelling their Lunar New Year plans in order to avoid spreading the virus. During the period he describes, Yan Cong's wife was practicing self-isolation for fear that she had contracted COVID-19. She's now doing well.

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Comic by Yan Cong

Translation and design by Xinmei Liu

Foreword and editing by Xinmei Liu, R. Orion Martin, and Jason Li

Originally published by Art Book China as part of their Apple a Day series

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UNIQLO Superman

by: Yan Cong

Published by kuš! in the mini kuš! series. Guest edited by R. Orion Martin (Paradise Systems)

There are two stories in this mini! The first is about a madman stealing from Uniqlo, the second is a love story between a frog and his wife.

28 pages, 4” x 6”, color, saddle stitched.

$6 (worldwide shipping included)

Order here

Distributed by Spit And A Half Distro

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The new mini kuš! by Ganmu, Fenta, Inkee Wang and Yan Cong are out now! Guest-edited by Paradise Systems. Available here!

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DEBUTING AT TCAF 2018 - CRY by Yan Cong

Cartoonist and contemporary artist Yan Cong is a founding figure of the independent comics community in China. At once surrealist and deeply personal, this comic is a demonstration of the outstanding storytelling that makes his work so unique both in China and abroad.

Publisher: Paradise Systems Price: $18 CAD

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Yan Cong has been publishing these newspaper strip dimension collections of "Beggar Comics" for the past several years. The comics feature a mix of tragicomic scenes and the reflections on making art. In one of the panels here, someone recommends that a gallerist sign a contract to represent a struggling cartoonist. The gallerist responds, "Quit joking around. We can't even support artists who are making serious oil paintings. There's no hope for comics." 

[Image description: The first image features photos of all three collections of "Beggar Comics" printed in black and white on colored paper. In the interior pages, sketchy, brush painted panels feature characters ranging from people to anthropomorphic mushrooms. Hand drawn dialogue in Chinese fills many of the panels.] 

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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.]

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Cry by Yan Cong 烟囱

Cartoonist and contemporary artist Yan Cong is a founding figure of the independent comics community in China. At once surrealist and deeply personal, this comic is a demonstration of the outstanding storytelling that makes his work so unique both in China and abroad.

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Happy to announce four new minis by Ganmu, Fenta, Inkee Wang and Yan Cong. You don't want to miss these, if you are interested what is happening in the underground comics scene of China! Guest edited by R. Orion Martin (Paradise Systems)

Find out more and order them here!