Have been in extreme tabling preparation mode for these couple months...

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art ✎

surprise new minicomic(s) - Formless Formless is a small collection of 1-10 page exercises and experiments. About: a dream, a deal, fish, telling stories, remembering, or more. 24 pages, riso printed in black with bright gold on the cover.

Partly made to remember how to comics again - I want to do a longer writeup on this when I get the chance, but essentially for each of the minicomics I was just trying to run with a simple concept without worrying too much about it and then make Something - it’s hard to practice if you never get started.

Physical copies will be debuting at MICE + CALA! Unfortunately I did misjudge the physical text sizing on this and combined with scanning-to-riso print some of the text may be a little hard to read… which means I wanted to get ahead of setting up digital copies, so those are also available now.

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17 / 25-10 / transcribe

some touch yet remains. October's riso print, in 4 colors (bright olive green, copper, hunter green, brown)

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18 / 25-11 / everlasting

is it over yet? November's print, in 4 colors (lime, raspberry, medium blue, black)

As a note my monthly riso club will be on break for December (+ possibly also January 2026)! You can still learn more about it here.

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Some killing time fountain pen sketchbook drawings from various screenings around the city… one day I’ll get around to scanning my observational sketchbook.

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Was seized with the urge to make a calendar so made one for externalizing the relentless passage of time. (You’re supposed to color in a box each day.) Riso printed with blue ink on light blue cardstock, + black ink on kraft tone cardstock. I’ll try to put leftovers up on sale once I’m back from my shows + also make a digital/printable version.

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other news etc ✷

Going on a US coast to coast tour this month… I’ll be at:

• Massachusetts Indie Comics Expo (MA) - Dec 6-7 @ table 47a

• Comic Arts LA (CA) - Dec 13-14 @ table 40a

I’ll also be on the Comics Visual Literacy panel at MICE on saturday.

I’ll have: debut copies of Formless Formless, 2nd edition copies of Skinning, print editions of my 2021 comic Viscera, + the other 2 new not technically comics books I made this year…

I’ll also have a curated selection of riso prints (not 100% finalized yet) - I don’t really fully unpack tabling stock though so I may have more options behind the table, just ask.

Have to get back to assembling zines and packing… thanks for being here,

— a liang chan / formyths

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read: Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera, tr. Lisa Dillman / Cannon, Lee Lai / Affinity, Sarah Waters / The Creation of Half-Broken People, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu / The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud, Tsurita Kuniko

watch: Itim, Mike de Leon / Chime + Charisma + Tokyo Sonata, Kurosawa Kiyoshi (have been slowly going through his other work) / Dog Day Afternoon, Sidney Lumet / The Man Without a Map, Teshigahara Hiroshi / Chess of the Wind, Mohammad Reza Aslani

listen: 郊遊 Outing + 蛙池 2020-2021, 蛙池 wachi / Run Rabbit Run, ALT BLK ERA / Epicentro I-II, Asimov / 周年周月周日死, 聽天湯Tin Ten Tan