Taken from Michael DeForge s Heaven No Hell
CANADIAN cartoonist Michael DeForge is one of the most original and productive comic creators working today. Since he started publishing his own comics some 14 years ago, his output has been prodigious and singular.
DeForge’s work exploits the possibilities and elasticity of the comic book form. His image-making often mixes up anthropomorphism with comic-book surrealism. “I generally want my comics to feel like dreams,” he once said.
And yet his stories are underpinned with a real concern with culture and politics while playing with media-saturated alternative realities.
His latest book Heaven No Hell is a collection of short stories that show the range of his work and the originality of his ideas.
The tireless cartoonist Share CLOSE Author and cartoonist Tsai Chih-chung creates comic books on ancient Chinese classics that have won popularity around the world. GAO ERQIANG/CHINA DAILY
Famous author and cartoonist Tsai Chih-chung, better known as C. C. Tsai in the West, may already be 73 this year, but the septuagenarian has no plans to slow down or adopt a more normal life.
The artist keeps a unique schedule. He goes to bed at 5 pm and wakes at 1 am. He then works till around 2 pm. When you are truly focused, everything is silent, as if you are the only thing in existence in the world. Time seems to slow down. This is why I enjoy getting out of bed in the middle of the night, says Tsai, who was in Shanghai last month for the launch of the English edition of his works on ancient Chinese philosophy.