Book description:
Sometimes feeling trapped, suffocated by huge pressure?
Or unable to connect with others and often trapped in loneliness and emptiness?
This is a portrayal of urban life, where some people get more depressed
Meanwhile, some people reshape their lives through artistic creation to get back to basics.
‘Juvenile Magazine’ Issue 3, Now On Stage!
This issue focuses on ’nature’, featuring comics and written works by several creators:
Pak-huen LI ‘Journey to Lamma Island’
NIU‘ A Piece of Mountain’ + Interview: Architecture and Graphic Design
Yik-laam HAU ‘Aerial Root’ + Interview: unclear when spoken, but clear when written
Lavender WOO ’The Tale of Flowers and Love’ + Interview: Unawakened Dreams
Authors’ bio:
Pak-huen Li is the founder of ‘Juvenile Magazine’, which was first published in 2022. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. She specialises in illustration, comic, printmaking, book, magazine production and acrylic painting. Her inspirations mostly come from real-life situations and observations . She hopes to express emotions and construct imaginations for life through art making.
Niu is an illustrator grounded in architecture and urban studies. His works focus on social and spatial issues, often critical, satirical, and experimental. He has won iJUNGLE, Japan’s JIA, and the UK’s Cheltenham Illustration Awards. He was also shortlisted for the FIBD Challenge at the Angoulême Comics Festival in France. He is currently based in Berlin, accepting illustration commissions from all over the world.
Yik-laam Hau explores the possibility of text andinterdisciplinary collaboration, responding to social conditions throughwritten works. Writes theatre texts, novels, and poetry. She has won the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award and was selected into the first ’Story Unboxed’ Writers Incubation Programme by ’Fleurs Des Lettres’.
Lavender Woo is a Hong Kong woman who likes illustration and creation, currently studying art history. She has curated the ‘POWER –Art of Loving’ mini-exhibition for the independent bookstore Hong Kong Book Era, and has hosted multiple writing workshops and creative sharing sessions. Using longing as the introduction and memories as the key, her gentle words allow readers to revisit the memories. She depicts the most ordinary but unforgettable urban romances by capturing the moments of love.