Woshibai's second book to be featured in this series, Closet collects two comics, both exploring his fragmented memories of growing up in mainland China. In his carefully articulated panels, childhood is a time of curiosity and quiet pleasures.
This book is part of Paradise Systems' series of contemporary lianhuanhua.
Woshibai was born and raised in Shanghai. He worked in video game art direction for several years but now works full-time as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. He is completing his first collection of comics.
I backed the kickstarter for Paradise Systems' book Naked Body: An Anthology of Chinese Comics and I totally forgot I had this little comic coming! I love Woshibai's very tight and minimal illustration style. It's very evocative and deceptively simple. The story of this one is about the author spending some punishment time in a closet and thinking about how babies happen. It feels like a really crisp wistful memory.