![]() ![]() His art here is in full colour but has further simplified and rounded, leaving him looking like Rutu Modan.ĭiane Zhou’s mini was one of the highlights of this bundle, made with skill, formal daring and significant emotional richness. From the following year, his lianhuanhua Lost Things is so minimalist in subject and tone that it’s totally forgettable unfortunately – a collection of tiny moments like watching TV or buying a fish at the market that are clearly intended to have a small emotional impact but h it too gently to achieve even those modest ambitions. ![]() I don’t know how smart it really is but it kind of works and comes to a sort of cryptic resolution at the end. The black and white story is occasionally interspersed with frightening full-colour TV images of things like rotting fruit and cigarette butts. But very possibly, the man and his friend are the same person. The mini kus Beyond a Cure is one of the stronger pieces I’ve read so far, a dreamlike story in which a man visiting his friend agrees to come back and bury him in the garden after his planned suicide that evening. ![]()
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