After graduating from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2005, he began his career as a cartoonist and freelance illustrator. His comics typically encompass horror, fantasy, and autobiography. Zuo Ma is considered one of the leaders in …

2021年8月26日 · By scrutinizing the world through "the eyes of another," Zuo Ma explores the porous and surreal boundary between fiction and autobiography, familiar and otherness, human and animal, untamed...

By scrutinizing the world through 'the eyes of another,' Zuo Ma explores the porous and surreal boundary between fiction and autobiography, familiar and otherness, human and animal, untamed nature and rampant development."

Pen name: Zuo Ma, born in Zhijiang, Hubei in 1983, graduated from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2005, author of comics and illustrations. Manga works are mostly published in independent comic magazines such as the “SPECIAL COMIX” series, the “Narrative” series, and “ORANG 10” (Germany).

2021年9月15日 · In this debut collection, Night Bus, Chinese comic artist Zuo Ma takes us on a deep dive into the inky depths of his subconscious. Eleven tales drawn between 2009 and 2013, which broadly cover national issues of rural urbanisation, the economic migration of young people towards cities and environmental pollution, but which are told through the ...

Zuo Ma was born in Zhijiang City in 1983. After graduating from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2005, he began his career as a cartoonist and freelance illustrator. His comics typically encompass horror, fantasy, and autobiography. Zuo Ma is considered one of the leaders in the nascent Chinese alternative comics scene.

Drawn & Quarterly. 2021. 400 pages. MORE A PHANTASMAGORIC dreamscape than a straightforward narrative graphic novel, Night Bus contains eleven stories, the long…

After graduating from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2005, he began his career as a cartoonist and freelance illustrator. His comics typically encompass horror, fantasy, and autobiography. Zuo Ma is considered one of the leaders in …