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[jasonli]

What a sweet and powerful gesture. It's frustrating when people say "what do you expect them to do? they're entertainers not activists!" look at how simple this gesture of solidarity is and how resonant it is! This is wonderful.

#free palestine #handala #with handala #withhandala

[jasonli]

Available now: Haze Cave by Pigao! We are so thrilled to add this important work by accomplished cartoonist Pigao to our line up. The artist designed the book with some unique binding and design features, and the printing came out beautifully.

Offset printing / color / 80 pages / 6 x 8.25" ISBN: 978-1-951078-10-2

Haze Cave is a semi-autobiographical story by Hangzhou-based cartoonist Pigao. Broken into two related stories, the first half finds the artist struggling with rent and displacement on the outskirts of Beijing. In the second half, Pigao attempts to return to a place from her past, only to find her memories lead her deeper into mysteries she cannot resolve. Throughout the book, Pigao’s fine pencil work and restrained palette beautifully capture a moment of transition and upheaval.

Image description: Photos of the cover and interior pages of the book, which is black and white with flashes of orange and cyan. In one spread, a couple drives through town while the sun sets. In another, a woman approaches a temple. Pigao's illustration often plays up contrasts between the sharp angular forms of buildings and the softer shapes of foliage and figures.

#comics

[jasonli]

Have been slowly compiling a short, annotated list of orgs you can support that are operating in Gaza and/or with orgs on the ground there where a UN Special Rapporteur is reporting that Israel's military retaliation against Palestinians is amounting to "mass ethnic cleansing".

Donations and emergency relief are obvious options in this moment, but you can also volunteer with these groups or join specific campaigns. List under the cut:

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders has a reputation for providing humanitarian aid in high-risk/conflict regions that other orgs will avoid and has been operating in Gaza for over 20 years. I linked to MSF's Canadian site but there may be an MSF branch in your country. I'm highlighting MSF because I'm a former volunteer with confidence in those I worked with and met at that time. But of course there are other aid organizations you might consider like the Red Cross and Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

Beyond humanitarian aid, you may wish to consider supporting these orgs that are playing a role in emergency response:

Amnesty International (Canadian site) and Human Rights Watch have both extensively documented systemic human rights abuses experienced by Palestinians. A part of their work involves the painstaking and critical task of verifying footage and evidence of war crimes which includes recently confirming Israel's use of white phosphorous in Gaza and more. Here's a list of Amnesty Canada's activities and campaigns in the region. Both of these orgs were instrumental in growing my understanding of the region - I recommend following their reporting because they will not drop off their coverage when the news cycle has moved on and there is so much misinfo and spectacularization of violence out there right now.

Last week, seven journalists were killed in Gaza and Lebanon by Israeli military forces. Check out Reporters sans frontières/Reporters without Borders or donate to news outlets investing resources and bringing quality reporting to the public from there.

Definitely consider contacting your political representatives (Canadian; esp if they are a member of Canada's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development) and the party you want to vote for. If you expect your perspective and interests to be accounted for by your government, you have to put in effort. You can start with a call for Canada to apply stronger/urgent pressure for an immediate ceasefire and add demands from there. You can email/call as an individual or look for or organize campaigns - letter writing and petitions, phone zaps, etc.

#tips #important #canada

[jasonli]

#smell #perfume

[jasonli]

COME PLAY

We will be at TCAF this weekend! Come say hi at table 2002 and check out our books! Special thanks to @jasonli of Paradise Systems for tabling this weekend!

Image description: A smattering of books with "SEE YOU AT TCAF" superimposed on top, surrounded by an eerie blue glow. 

#comics #toronto #tcaf #tcaf 2023 #zines #surprise guest

[jasonli]

Presenting Avatar's iconic intro sequence remixed with Chinese character to emoji transformations. Our book, The Hanmoji Handbook, features a different set of elements (💦🌏🔥🪙🌲 rather than 💦🌏🔥💨) but I still tried to slip an Avatar Ang cameo into an early draft of the book (unsuccessfully 🥲).

#avatarthelastairbender #avatar the last airbender #hanmoji #learn Chinese #emoji #book

[jasonli]

PETSCII by redcrab, 2023.

#ascii #ascii art #crab #is this a crab

[jasonli]

㊗️ドット絵タロットカード発売！🔮✨ ドット絵を愛する人が集結して、力を合わせて制作した“ドット絵タロットカード”なんと78種類フルデッキ！ついに販売開始しましたー！ https://vpandav.booth.pm/ 実は昨年夏から動いていたプロジェクトでしたが、79名(！)も様々なドッターさんが集まって、全カード違う人が描いてます😳 数量限定で手分けして販売してます！ 占いのお供に是非✨🔮 “Tarot of Pixel Art", created by a group of pixel art lovers, are now available in a full deck of 78 types! Finally, they are now on sale! https://vpandav.booth.pm/ The cards are all drawn by different people 😳! Divine your destiny with this! ✨🔮

#cute #pixel art #love #tarot

[jasonli]

Unfortunately, the episode pushes an angle of Western saviorism meets primitive Eastern people. For example, one of its main interviewees, a present-day music writer in China is described as “never [having] heard a song about death. Never imagined music could be so emotionally complicated and layered” — after hearing a song in a Hollywood movie by The Doors. This same person, they narrate, grew up on “decades of communist party operas, sprinkled only with the occasional John Denver song.” Towards the end of his story arc, the interpreter says “what he felt about dakou, if you have to summarize in one word is—gratitude.”

Correcting the record (and oriental gaze) on Radiolab’s China Mixtape episode

#china #music #oh no #orientalism #not cool #rock #history #blah

[jasonli]

Hayao Miyazaki’s Happy New Year Greetings Drawings

twitter -
 https://twitter.com/Ghiblicollector

#studio ghibli #ghibli #hayao miyazaki #happy new year #illustration #lunar new year

[jasonli]

It’s true

#frog

[jasonli]

It's the first day of FOLD Kids 2022❗️ We're involved in three events with the festival, but more importantly, that means our video introducing our book, The Hanmoji Handbook, to educators is out (☝🏼👀).

You can find our clip alongside videos featuring other young adult authors/books that are participating in #FOLDkids22 on their Youtube channel.

More information about Fold Kids 2022 on their website — including details on the hanmoji and DIY comics workshops we're running, and the illustrator battle I'm participating in.

#video #hanmoji #emoji #Chinese #language learning #oink oink

[jasonli]

Emily Carroll’s His Face All Red

everyone read

#emily carroll #arts #illustration #comic #art #omg #classic

[jasonli]

Next week! Join me, An Xiao and Jenny in celebrating launch day of 📒 The Hanmoji Handbook 📒 on a fun, 8-bit, virtual environment. There will be activities and talks and time to mingle, come on by ✨🙆🏻‍♂️✨

🎟 Get a free ticket here 🎟

Image description: A colorful poster of a Gameboy Color-like display showing a scene from gathertown of three mini-people throwing confetti. The text surrounding the display says: August 31, 7:30pm New York time. The Hanmoji Handbook: Virtual Launch Party on the fun video conference/virtual world platform gather.town. Join us to celebrate launch day with light virtual snacks, emoji mini-games, and fireside chatting in this fun 8-bit environment. Get your free ticket today!

#hanmoji #emoji #party #party time #books #book #gathertown

[jasonli]

overnight, israel raided, destroyed, and shut down multiple extremely vital palestinian human rights organizations

they ransacked the offices, stole or destroyed computers, and destroyed files documenting israeli violence (like rape, settler violence, prison torture on children, harassment, shootings, beatings, military violence on civilians, home demolitions, etc), and welded the doors shut with iron

the organizations attacked are listed below, please consider boosting their voices or donating if able:

Al Haq - Defending Human Rights

Defense for Children International

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Bisan Center for Research and Development

The Union of Agriculture Work Committees

The Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees

Health Work Committees

#palestine #israel #cw: death #cw: violence #news

[jasonli]

If you’re not keeping up, Cartoon Network sold off most of its original programming over the last few years to run exclusively on HBO Max, but after a merger with Discovery, HBO has taken them all down, including those that were still in production, for what is long story short a big tax write-off. And it’s not a simple matter of them just airing or streaming somewhere else now. It’s a very complicated issue of rights and contracts and money but essentially it’s very possible that these shows will never be available again in official capacity and their creators will never see another penny from them again, either. Some completed episodes may also be lost media, indefinitely. For a couple of series, such as Mao Mao and Infinity Train, Cartoon Network has gone back and scrubbed all tweets, youtube clips or other mention of the series existence, confirming they likely no longer have the rights to take them anywhere else. The tweet today by the creator of Tig N’ Seek made me saddest.

A lot of people this week have simply given up on their industry careers, seeing years of their life’s work just vanish into a corporate vault overnight. Being able to point to your work on a streaming service had apparently even become a pretty critical part of the portfolios they now rely on to get new jobs.

Streaming media went from an optimistic new frontier to even worse than cable TV so suddenly.

#media industry #cartoon network #hbo

[jasonli]

堂食 DINE IN

Translator:Guandi Wu

中文版：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DINwUVYwOqKcKxNJm7477w

#comic #art #cartoonist #illustration #poop