![]() Even Chang only heard his father talk about it a few times. “It’s his experiences that are unusual.”Ĭhang says when he surveyed 40 young people in Ximending, only two knew about the Taipei Air Raid, which heavily damaged Taipei and killed many people. “The main character is a pretty regular person, just like most of our audience,” Lo’s teammate Sheng Hang (聖航) adds. “This is a story that happens in modern day Taipei, and I wanted to portray it as realistically as possible,” he says. He says that he has given all the characters realistic names, such as an anthropomorphic leopard cat named Yen Shu-chi (嚴書齊). “I think more Taiwanese are starting to discover that there are many topics around them that they can expand upon.”ĭespite Nekojishi’s themes of homosexuality and furry subculture, this “every day life” notion is also what Lo strives for. “You can find much inspiration in your surroundings,” she says. Zuo says that she grew up reading Japanese comics, but recalls that when she and her friends would draw comics at school, it would always be about their daily lives. “Also, I think my dialogue is very Taiwanese too.” “A Taiwanese doing or reacting to something will certainly be different from an American or Japanese doing the same thing,” she says. She says Taiwanese-ness can go beyond the religious and folk elements, as even something as mundane as buying noodles can be uniquely Taiwanese. Zuo Hsuan (左萱) is the author of The Summer Temple Fair (神之鄉), a comic book revolving around the santaizi (三太子) religious procession in her hometown of Dasi (大溪) in Taoyuan. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The opening page from artist Zuo Hsuan’s comic book based on the santaizi religious procession in her hometown of Dasi in Taoyuan. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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