Pearl Slug Studio is an independent publishing house. Rooted in the Simplified Chinese and East Asian context, currently based in New York, Melbourne and Shanghai. Founded in 2020 by Guan Shaoshuang, Vanilla Chi, Mao Zhe and You Liang, Focusing on the visual arts and simplified Chinese writing, reflects on today's art historical, sociological, and aesthetic concepts.
Genre: Art, Design, Photography, Zine, ArtistsBook, Literature
Website / Link to Portfolio: https://pearlslugstudio.com/Shop-magazines
Publication/Work:
-"Glimpses" by Vanilla Chi. This collection serves as a summary of Vanilla's work up to this point. It encapsulates her core ideas about graphic narrative, with her images beginning to tell small stories and convey subtle emotions. These stories are poised to evoke further narratives and emotions as they encounter different readers. However, there are countless more stories for Vanilla to explore through comics—stories that may not always be colorful and eye-catching, but rather demand readers to shift their focus between panels to fully absorb.
-“Lydia” by You Liang: As you delve into "Lydia," discard the urge to decipher image meanings. Instead, view the subjects as childhood companions, recalling your own journey through the gray area. Reading this book feels akin to navigating sudden, disorienting drifts on the road of life. "Lydia" intentionally induces a dizzying effect, inviting us to embrace the loss of youth and the untimely madness. In the next moment, we may teeter off the motorcycle or plunge into a lengthy traffic jam. Yet, in this moment, we're immersed in the intoxicating allure of youthful melodrama.
Pearl Slug Studio
Pearl Slug Studio is an independent publishing house. Rooted in the Simplified Chinese and East Asian context, currently based in New York, Melbourne and Shanghai. Founded in 2020 by Guan Shaoshuang, Vanilla Chi, Mao Zhe and You Liang, Focusing on the visual arts and simplified Chinese writing, reflects on today's art historical, sociological, and aesthetic concepts.
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New Haven
United States of America
-"Glimpses" by Vanilla Chi. This collection serves as a summary of Vanilla's work up to this point. It encapsulates her core ideas about graphic narrative, with her images beginning to tell small stories and convey subtle emotions. These stories are poised to evoke further narratives and emotions as they encounter different readers. However, there are countless more stories for Vanilla to explore through comics—stories that may not always be colorful and eye-catching, but rather demand readers to shift their focus between panels to fully absorb.
-“Lydia” by You Liang: As you delve into "Lydia," discard the urge to decipher image meanings. Instead, view the subjects as childhood companions, recalling your own journey through the gray area. Reading this book feels akin to navigating sudden, disorienting drifts on the road of life. "Lydia" intentionally induces a dizzying effect, inviting us to embrace the loss of youth and the untimely madness. In the next moment, we may teeter off the motorcycle or plunge into a lengthy traffic jam. Yet, in this moment, we're immersed in the intoxicating allure of youthful melodrama.