不安分的石頭
January 2015 25x22 cm 52pp.
Rights Sold: Spanish
In Gagabe Forest, even a gentle breeze has to be careful passing through.
The forest is home to creatures so set in their ways, you couldn’t imagine.
Sensitive and old-fashioned, they live lives where everything stays the same.
Nothing is allowed to change, because they believe that
even the smallest change could bring disaster to Gagabe Forest.
This means: the number of trees in the forest must stay the same, and at the same heights;
everyone has to take the same road home every day; everyone has to keep the same hair…
They would accept nothing new, nothing adventurous. They live according to tradition.
Their lives are as flat and predictable as a glass of plain water.
To make sure that everything in the forest stays the same,
a neighborhood watch called Team Six
patrols the entire forest every day
to check that everything is the same as yesterday.
This is where our story begins.
A stone appears in the forest, and no one knows why.
Sometimes it glows, sometimes it makes strange sounds.
Team Six is stumped.
How could they restore Gagabe Forest back to the way it was …?
動物醫院三十九號
February 2010 15x21 cm 96pp.
Rights sold : Simplified Chinese, Korean, English
This book is set in Chinlun’s husband’s veterinary surgery, with many details taken from real life events. Chinlun has disguised herself in the narrative as the surgery’s pet cat who can understand the conversations between the animals and record them on paper.
Filled with the most adorable characters, such as the dog seeking refuge and another who lost its owner in the market, the sneezing and coughing cat, the stubborn rabbit who hates to chew but needs its teeth cut and the dizzy butterfly, this is a charming story of one vet’s loving care for all the animals that come through the doors of his No. 39 Animal Surgery.
Paw 在醫院裡
May 2005. 15x 20 cm, 32 pp
Chinlun Lee viewed her dog, Paw, as a member of the family.
From 1997 to 1999, Chinlun went to Britain to further her education, leaving her husband and her dog behind in Taiwan. There they spent day after day in an animal hospital.
Missing her family, Chinlun created this illustrated work while she was abroad. When she finished her studies, she came home with it. Back in Taiwan, Chinlun published one book after another. In each were illustrations of Paw, who sometimes served as the main character. Sadly, Paw and Little Ling, another of Chinlun’s dogs, passed away in 2004.
The book, which is 32 pages long, was thus both created and published when Lee was missing her dog. The book takes an amusing and irreverent look at veterinarians and animal hospitals from a dog’s point of view.
講貓的壞話
February 2010. 15×21 cm, 224 pp.
Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese
Chinlun Lee, an author of illustrated books, felt so tenderly toward some stray animals that she brought them home and adopted them.
After gaining those pets, Lee, who loves drawing as much as she loves animals, wondered how she would be able to manage both her pets and her work in her small studio.
A couple of years ago, a newspaper supplement invited Lee to contribute an illustrated column about cats and dogs. Day after day she hunkered down in her studio, concentrating on capturing what was all around her. Several years later, she took a fresh look at the illustrations: she no longer had the studio, but she could see the tracks of time and real love in the drawings.
She exchanged old words for new words, and brought new feelings to her old experiences. Wanting to compare her past with those beloved dogs and cats to her present with them, she took some new photographs to place alongside the old illustrations. Looking back, she and her readers alike feel warm inside.
撥撥橘日日美好
July 2011. 14.5x21cm, 164 pp.
This is the story how Chinlun Lee made an old accommodation to be her dream place, also a safe home to the street cats.
Life is a thing you couldn’t handle even with thoroughly and serious planning.
Chinlun thinks about her life seriously, every small dream seems so easy to achieve but also seems never.
A working studio with full of sunshine, a tree planted in the yard, a warm place for animals.
This is all she wants; design good merchandise which deliver good message to the people.
A small shop, for her own and for animals. For the people to understand how to live
那些胖臉兒教我的事
April 2012. 17 x 22 cm, 160pp
“We’ve got to be prepared for our luck to arrive.”
In 2012 Chinlun, with a pen in hand and an irresistible urge to draw, most wanted to say: “I’m going to keep on drawing until the end of the world.”
Talking about Chubby Cheeks：
On the very first page of Spit the Seeds I cast myself as the main character Chubby Cheeks. Bravely, I admit: See, I am Chubby Cheeks. I am that pig with the biggest face, the one who is troubled by the tree growing out of its head. Much to my surprise and delight, I discovered that when you admit that you are that kind of person, you lose all fear.
Talking about creating:
To me, creation involves making a record of what has happened. If I make a record of it today, no matter what happens later, it will be there.
Talking about What Chubby Cheeks Taught Me:
I wrote this book for those who have encouraged Chubby Cheeks and me in the past. This is a commemoration of my creative journey, of overcoming fear and finding happiness, freedom and comfort in drawing.
寵物原來如此
September 2003. 19 x 20 cm, 144 pp
There are so many families with pets now, and even some schools will let children learn to take care of pets together.
However, in addition to love and patience, pets need more understanding of the pet’s living habits and knowledge of pets.
The two pet experts co-authored this book to answer the questions of many children and parents. It’s a practical book with pleasing illustration.
愛不終止
March 2005. 18 cm x 24 cm, 88 pp.
Little Ling and Paw are Chinlun Lee’s dogs and also members of her family. Lee leads a simple life, running a veterinary practice with her husband in southern Taiwan. When Lee isn’t lending a hand at the hospital, she shuts herself in a room to write or takes care of her six dogs and one cat, all of which have complicated histories. Some were sick or strays that Lee adopted. Lee has remarked on the unfairness: “People abandon dogs, but dogs don’t abandon people.”
When Little Ling and Paw get sick and die one after the other, Lee begins to look at the issue of death. Life is short, but is love forever? How should people properly love animals? After death, where does life go? Is there a heaven? Lee looks for answers in her heart....
靠窗的位子
February 2009. 17x 22 cm,180 pp
Rights sold: Simplified Chinese
A book that manages to be gloomy, down and out, warm and funny all at the same time, Chinlun shares the explorations and discoveries she made while studying illustration in Britain.
What Chinlun loves most is to create. This book surprises and delights her fans, details her days at the Royal College of Art, describing her impressions and state of mind there.
麵包師之旅
Chen Wen Sheng 陳穩升
July 2017 19x20 cm 152pp.
Rights sold: French, Italian
*2016 Taiwan Golden Comic Award for Best New Artist
It can be put no other way: Baker is imagination, painted. This beautiful story has no words, and it needs none. Artist Chen Wen-Sheng allowed the simple seeds of a childhood daydream, formed as he waited for the bread truck to pass his house, to germinate into a luscious, living work of color and creativity.
The story is very simple: Long ago, there lived a hard-working baker, who raised a small fish as a pet. Every time the fish ate the baker’s bread, however, it transformed into a massive, flying Leviathan, that took the baker on strange journeys across the world.
About Autor
Chen Wen-Sheng 陳穩升
Illustrator Chen Wen-Sheng has worked full-time as an animator for over ten years. After turning thirty, he began using his spare time to design graphic novels of his own. Deeply inspired by Star Wars and other science fiction tales of distance and scope, he creates work that intentionally stretches the boundaries of the imagination. His graphic story Light Station, about an imaginary trip taken on a railway, was a runner-up for the Neiwan Railway of Dreams Animation and Comic Art Contest.
流浪小孩
Crystal Kung 水晶孔
April 2016 23 x 17 cm 172pp.
Rights sold : French, Italian
The Little drifter wanders among various cities, making his appearance in the valley of swirling colorful flags, in a misty ancient city, in the middle of a big city of various kinds of people, in a settlement with a mysterious lake in the mountains, in a metropolis in the rain with skyscrapers, and in a city full of old alleys and bars. Hie is like a star, guiding the direction for all travelers who get lost. This book is a self-projection of the author Crystal Kung, who believes home is where your heart is.
About the author
Crystal Kung
Born in Xi'an in 1994, Crystal KUNG was raised in Taipei and now is in her senior year in Shih Chien University’s Department of Communications Design and specializes in 2D graphic design at the initial stage of animation production. Most of the work is about people she has encountered or created.
Crystal had her first Wacom drawing board at the age of 16 and embarked on the journey of digital creation ever since. She mostly taught herself how to paint.
Crystal's work leans toward western style, which makes her stand out among fellow artists in Taiwan, who follow Japanese and Korean style as a mainstream.
Crystal Kung is still exploring her own style and trying to establish distinctive characteristics. She is currently a student and illustration artist and also working on comics creation.
最幸福的禮物
by Yu Li-ching and others.
