Exhibitors

Exhibitors

Dala Publishing Company

大辣出版股份有限公司

Founded in 2003, Dala Publishing Company has been devoted to promoting local comic artists to readers in Taiwan and abroad. It also provides channels for Chinese readers to discover European comics and coordinated the creation of cross-regional illustrated projects.

Rights Contact: Vinelle Pan / 

Comics:Short Story/ Young Adult(13-18)

Four in Love

四天

#Romance
What is love, ideally, for you? Is it a red string, with someone at the other end waiting for you? Or maybe like a neon lamp late at night, a fantasy? Perhaps it’s the internet world, so close yet so distant? Crystal Kung uses the colors of joy, haze, heartbreak, and relief to illustrate love, and to describe those searching for it.

Author: Crystal Kung

Illustrator: Crystal Kung

144 pages | 20 × 20cm

ISBN: 9789869855761

★Rights Sold: French; Italian electronic version

Comics/ All Ages

Iron Boy: Pirate Town 1+2

鐵男孩:山寨之城(套書)

#Fantasy #Adventure
Pirate Town. You won’t find it on any map of Ghost Island. Only one attraction keeps new visitors coming—robot fighting tournament known as the Battle of the Bots. Davy a 13-year-old boy who dreams of creating his own fighter bot for the tournament but it is strongly opposed by His grandfather. One day the local gangsters dare Davy to bet in the Battle of the Bots—and Davy loses big. The gangsters threaten Davy to pay up or else. When all hope seems lost a rogue Max who owns a heart of gold and his charming robot sidekick Shitbox suddenly come into the picture.

Author: Richard Metson

Illustrator: Richard Metson

256 pages | 21 × 29.7cm

ISBN: 9991100125049

★Adapted in to an animated TV Show.

Comics/ All Ages

Legends of Assassins (2017 New Edition)

刺客列傳(精裝紀念版)

#Ink-wash techniques #Assassins
Based on the “Biographies of Assassins” from the Han-dynasty historian Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian, this book tells the stories of the noted assassins Cao Mu, Yu Rang, Zhuan Zhu, Nie Zheng and Jing Ke of China’s Eastern Zhou dynasty. Working from his strong sense of humanity, Chen Uen gives his own interpretation of the original work’s tragic tone. He transforms Sima Qian’s elegant prose into rich images using ink-wash techniques giving the stories a discordant tension for a new age. The sheer force of the visuals are a perfect match for the assassins preparing themselves for violent death.

Author: Chen Uen

Illustrator: Chen Uen

192 pages | 18 × 26cm

ISBN: 9789866634673

★Rights Sold: French; Simplified Chinese

Comics/ Young Adult(13-18)

Sometimes in the City

城市裡,有時候

#Urban Culture
There is no dialogue and no traditional storyline. Each chapter is a full single page of illustration, divided into between 3 and 9 frames, telling a story of city life, drawn as if snapped by a camera in sequence from a fixed position. These stories are moments, vignettes just seconds in length. The illustrations and accompanying text descriptions evoke a wide range of emotions and experiences, and constitute a fresh, unconventional comic book reading experience.

Author: 61Chi

Illustrator: 61Chi

144 pages | 20 × 20cm

ISBN: 9789866634949

★Award: The 13th Japan International MANGA Award - Bronze Award; Nomination of 2020 Golden Comic Awards for Comic of the Year category

Comics/ Adult(18+)

YAN1

閻鐵花1

#Adventure #Superhero #Peking opera
Yan Tieh-hua, a 15-year-old female who was the only survivor in a murder of the family Yan 30 years ago. Thirty years later, a woman who claims herself to be Yan Tieh-hua begins a series of revenges.

Author: Chang Sheng

Illustrator: Chang Sheng

344 pages | 18 × 26cm

ISBN: 9789869949606

★Film and TV adaptations sold