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🤖 Ritual Machine Available for Pre-Order 🤖

The book rotating in pixelated outer space framed in a computer window.


Pre-Order Ritual Machine by Toyoya Li

Surprise book launch! We are ecstatic to be launching a new book by Toyoya Li in collaboration with China-based Yanshu Books. It is not an exaggeration to say that this book would be almost impossible to print in the US. The fabulous editors at Yanshu worked with the printers on this outstanding design, which includes two lenticular prints (the front and back covers). And if you can't wait, see the bundle below.

Author: Toyoya Li
Offset / color / 138 pages / 4.5 x 6.25"
ISBN: 978-1-951078-11-9
$26.95

Beijing-based cartoonist Toyoya Li's first long-form work is a mind-warping journey through a pixelated, dystopic future. After a showdown with Virtual Wizard, will either of our fearless heroes make it back to meatspace? The front and back cover of this book are holographic prints featuring Li's GIFs.

Li Fan (Toyoya) lives in Beijing, where he works as a pixel artist and animator. He is interested in unique and bizarre visual media of all kind, and has a collection of '80s and '90s electronics hardware which serves as inspiration for his work.

 

A beautiful spread of books and stickers in Toyoya Li's pixel art rendering. The books range in size and length, featuring Toyoya's loose approach to narrative and design-forward layouts.
To celebrate the launch of Ritual Machine, we have imported more of Toyoya's work. This is an extremely limited bundle celebrating the launch of Ritual Machine by Toyoya Li. The bundle includes two self-published zines by Toyoya Li that are not available outside China, a sticker pack, and Peach Boy, published by Paradise Systems. We only have five copies of this bundle available! 

If you're interested in supporting our work, this is a great way to to do so!

 

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Support Us on Patreon

Paradise Systems exists to support connections between disparate publishing communities, with a specific focus on translating underground comics from mainland China. Since 2018, we’ve published 27 titles and sold over 10,000 books.

Though we feel this work has been extremely valuable, it has never been financially lucrative. We are creating this Patreon so we can continue to do this work and offer the authors as much compensation as possible. Patrons will get occasional updates on what we’ve been up to, and highlights from the PS library of Chinese language comics, zines, and artbooks.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our work!

 

Final Copies of EMOLAND

We are down to our very last copies of EMOLAND, so if you still wanted a copy but haven't picked one up, act fast! It's hard to keep books this beautiful in stock!