20 km/h by Woshibai
A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand. How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly s wings? How do you measure the speed of waking from a dream? Such abstract inquiries into the unrelenting absurdity of contemporary life make up this omnibus of meditative vignettes from one of mainland China s most prolific and recognizable yet anonymous new underground cartoonists of the current generation. Every story in 20 km/h toes the line between pun and poetry, and lands somewhere just short of a zen koan: Come back to it as often as you like, it will never read quite the same way twice. A nondescript figure awakes from an assembly line of identically fashioned companions and boards a rowboat destined for the unknown. A man holds the key to sleep in his hand and uses it to disappear into his mattress. The moon is plucked from the sky and fed into a vending machine for a can of soda. Woshibai s minimalist renderings are a startlingly delightful cocktail of existential dread and silent slapstick that arrest the mind s eye with equal parts humor and grace.
Silent, short, unexpected, surreal there s a snackable brevity to them that s unsurprisingly amassed a huge followingSOLRAD. Woshibai's hilariously clever comics explore themes of mundanity and reverie . . . Saying so much with so little is certainly [his] charm. It s Nice That
Woshibai lives and works in Shanghai, where he was born and raised. After several years in video game design, he now freelances full-time as an illustrator and cartoonist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781770466692 |
| ISBN 10 | 177046669X |
| Title | 20 km/h |
| Author | Woshibai |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Year published | 2023-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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