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• Title:20 km/h / Woshibai ; [translation Megan Tan and Francine Yulo].
  
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• Variant Title:20km/h
  Twenty kilometers per hour
  
• Author/Creator:Woshibai, author, illustrator.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Tan, Megan, translator.
  Yulo, Francine, translator.
  
• Published/Created:[Montreal, Quebec] : Drawn and Quarterly, ; 2023.
  ©2023
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN6790.C43 W6713 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Comic books, strips, etc.--China--Translations into English.
  
• Genre/Form:Wordless comics.
  Cartoons (Humor)
  Humorous comics.
  Graphic novels.
  Comics (Graphic works)
  
• Edition:First English edition.
  
• Description:372 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm
  
• Summary:A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand. How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly's wings? How do you measure the speed of waking from a dream? Such abstract inquiries into the unrelenting absurdity of contemporary life make up this omnibus of meditative vignettes from one of mainland China's most prolific and recognizable--yet anonymous--new underground cartoonists of the current generation. -- Back cover
  
• Notes:A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand. How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly's wings? How do you measure the speed of waking from a dream? Such abstract inquiries into the unrelenting absurdity of contemporary life make up this omnibus of meditative vignettes from one of mainland China's most prolific and recognizable--yet anonymous--new underground cartoonists of the current generation. Every story in 20 km/h toes the line between pun and poetry, and lands somewhere just short of a zen koan: Come back to it as often as you like, it will never read quite the same way twice. A nondescript figure awakes from an assembly line of identically fashioned companions and boards a rowboat destined for the unknown. A man holds the key to sleep in his hand and uses it to disappear into his mattress. The moon is plucked from the sky and fed into a vending machine for a can of soda.
  
• ISBN:9781770466692 (pbk)
  177046669X (pbk)