Taiwan comic artists Adoor Yeh and Doz Lin have been specially selected for a three-month residency at the International City of Comics and Images (CNBDI) in Angouleme, France, the Ministry of Culture announced April 8.
Beginning in December, Yeh and Lin will take up their posts at CNBDI’s artists’ residence, which has been receiving visiting cartoonists from around the world since 2002. The experience of living and working in a foreign country is expected to boost the pair’s creative energies and give them the opportunity to collaborate with talented artists from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds, the MOC added.
Comic artist and visual designer Adoor Yeh was chosen for her surrealistic submission B’bu-maqaw—meaning Qilan Mountain in the indigenous Atayal language—which she intends to develop into a fantasy-themed graphic novella. The artist began self-publishing comics in 2013, including “Sore Throat,” “Bus Bomb” and “Remote Island,” and has worked with magazines such as Wallpaper*, Wonderland and Interview through Side Door, the studio she launched in 2010.
Yeh will be joined by Doz Lin, an animator with a side passion for comics and illustration. His selected work—tentatively titled “Being Hectic”—uses a cool, absurdist style to depict the story of a workaholic who discovers a fresh perspective after experiencing a change of environment.
Co-sponsored by the French ministry of Culture and Communication, the Charente County council and the city of Angouleme and the Poitou-Charentes region, CNBDI serves as a cross-cultural artistic hub. In addition to the artists’ residence, its facilities boast a bookshop, a museum, a cinema and two libraries.
MIC and CNBDI have cooperated since 2014 to send chosen Taiwan artists to develop comic projects at the French studio. To date, 10 participants have been selected, including the renowned Ao Yu-hsiang. (TYT-E)
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