Another 3 month update because I forgot… thanks to everyone who signed up for this newsletter these past few months, and sorry if you didn’t and I just entered someone’s email in wrong :’)
art ✎
year of the snake cards - something simple this year due to circumstances, printed on paper trimmed from a past project… something about renewal etc etc…
09 / 25-02 / macrocosm
again, and again. February's print, in 3 colors (bisque, light lime, mist)
10 / 25-03 / overstory
Their whispers tangle in your ears. March’s print, in 3 colors (light lime, green, blue)
You can learn more about my monthly riso print club + sign up for it here.
Yi Yi (2000, dir. Edward Yang) - original poster was a private commission that I was really happy to get to work on. Riso version printed by Lucky Risograph with 4 colors (sunflower, aqua, bright red, black).
Green Snake (1992, dir. Tsui Hark) - have been wanting to do a poster for this one for a while and what better time than the year of the snake… Also printed by Lucky Risograph, with 3 colors (sunflower, aqua, bright red)
Made a new zine! Acrophobia is a collection of fragments—mostly writing with some drawings and photos—all falling at varying distances from the titular theme. It draws from: pictures of the sky I've taken over the past almost two decades, the feeling of clicking through hyperlinks, my existential interest in my own fear of heights, and various ephemera that have been floating around in my brain for a while.
Some form of it existed originally as notes I wrote in 2019 for a possible comic. In the interest of trying something new, and also to maybe strain my eyes a little less, I decided to make it into something different.
Unfortunately there’s a few pages with fluorescent orange that are not salvageable from scans so I’ll need to figure out a way to take photos of the whole zine in the future..
28 pages, 3.75×8in
Riso printed by me @ Endless Editions
Mist, fluorescent orange, sunflower, sky blue and black ink on 4 different paper stocks
other news etc ✷
Thanks to everyone who stopped by @ JABF :’’) and MOCCA fest! Will be at some more spring events:
Brooklyn Indie Comics Showcase (NY) - Apr 26-27
Riso Expo Philly (PA) - May 4 (12-6pm)
In other news, my monthly riso print club is back and running. I’ve had to switch to a different billing schedule thanks to patreon requirements… so now prints will go out after the end of the month—more info on the changes here though the core concept is otherwise the same.
Also got the chance to work with the W.O.W. Project and design some red envelopes + stickers for local NYC Chinatown businesses for the new year! Have to assume you can’t get them anymore because that was a while ago but you can still read about the project + see the featured businesses here.
As always, thanks to everyone for being here,
— a liang chan / formyths
read: The Summer Hikaru Died, Mokumokuren / Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin / Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman
watch: Millennium Mambo, Hou Hsiao-Hsien (my new year’s watch of choice) / Dreams, Kurosawa Akira / The One-Armed Swordsman, Chang Cheh
listen: a lot of Faye Wong + Leslie Cheung over deadline crunch work sessions / They Kept Our Photographs, Snakeskin / 호수 The Lake, 전유동 Jeon Yoodong / 木馬 Mukma, 我地希望 Wantamnam / 巨人川 River of the Giant, 八仙 8 Immortals