Exhibitors

Exhibitors

Slowork Publishing

慢工文化事業有限公司

Focuses on publishing original graphic novels, with “diversity” at the core and “exploring truth” as the creative starting point. Assembles creators from countries across East Asia and South-East Asia to search for an illustrated narrative style that belongs uniquely to Asia.

Rights Contact: Pei-Shan Huang / 

Comics/ Adult(18+)

A Trip to the Asylum

瘋人院之旅

#psychiatric
What is life like inside a modern residential psychiatric facility? Pam Pam Liu’s graphic novel A Trip to the Asylum peels away the stereotypes to reveal the inner world of psychiatric patients and the painful realities each grapples with while undergoing in-patient treatment

Author: Pam Pam Liu

Illustrator: Pam Pam Liu

336 pages | 17 × 23cm

ISBN: 9789869857376

★Award: 2021 Taipei Book Fair Award

Comics/ All Ages

Mayfly Island

蜉蝣之島

#ecosystems #prophetic #Austronesian
In the near future, when ecosystems on Earth are collapsing, the only paradise, Mayfly Island, is considered to be a bad omen. In this age of apocalypse, how will people see the continuation of life?

Author: Li Shang-Chiao

Illustrator: Evergreen Yeh,

144 pages | 17 × 23cm

ISBN: 9789869857321

★Award: 2022 Japan International comic award Bronze prize

Non-fiction/ All Ages

Pasar Karat

Pasar Karat 生鏽市集

#Flea market #art book

Author: NOvia Shin

Illustrator: NOvia Shin

82 pages | 21.5 × 15.5cm

ISBN: 9789860697346

Comics/ All Ages

Son of Formosa 1-4

來自清水的孩子1-4

#Biographic #history #white terror #memory
The true story of Tsai Kun-lin, born in Qingshui, Taichung, in 1930, as he lives through Japanese rule and the arrival of the Kuomintang. Polite and a good student, Tsai found himself sentenced to ten years in jail for “membership of an illegal organization” after attending a high school book club. This graphic novel recounts his tenacity and determination.

Author: Pei-Yun YU, Jian-Xin ZHOU

Illustrator: Jian-Xin Zhou

668 pages | 17 × 23cm

ISBN: 9789860697339

★Award: 2021 The White Ravens Award (International Youth Library; 2021 Taipei Book Fair Award; 2021 Golden Tripod Award; 2021Golden Comics Awards Best New Talent