Paradise Systems 格物天下

We debuted our new anthology at MoCCA this year to an overwhelmingly positive response (it even won an award!). You can now find this precious volume on our website, shipping worldwide. Here's the blurb in case you forgot! SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel is a collection of dazzling, innovative comics from some of the most talented cartoonists and illustrators working in China's underground publishing world. Every artist in this anthology is a legend in their own right; together they have hundreds of pages of published work that has never been translated into English. While some of them, including Xiang Yata and Ganmu, have been active for decades, others, like Woshibai, are rising talents. Their work captures a wide spectrum of illustration and storytelling styles, reflecting the stupendous diversity of the self-publishing and art comics scene in China today. Featuring: Han Xiao 韩笑 @hanxiao16 , Boilingman 保龄曼 @boilingmanxx , Ganmu 甘木 @ganmuuu , toyoya 李帆 @toyoyali , Xiang Yata 象牙塔 @ivory_tata , KKCIT, Woshibai 我是白 @woshibaii , Fiona Peace 和平 fionapeace_gogogo, Tou Yeye @touyeye_yeyetou , gantea @gantea , fenta 粉塔 @fentacn , Wang XX 王XX @an_ordinary_seal , rere 热热 @rere_yaoxuanyi , Pigao 唐筠 @ppigao , Zheng Nanqibai 郑南七白 @zhengnanqibai Image description: The cover shows a collection of sea creatures moving from left to right over a gridded background. Interior spreads show the diversity of work in the anthology, from Boilingman's blocky geometric assemblages to Pigao's carefully shaded portrait.

Today on SOLRAD, we feature an Exclusive Excerpt of SYSTEM 01: HOT NET HOTEL, published by Paradise Systems link in bio

Inkee Wang(@wanginkee )'s tote bag is now available on our website! You can get this handsome zippered bag on its own, or at a discount with Inkee Wang's zine, Friendship Forever! Dimensions: 17 in x 14 in with 7 in x 10 in zine pouch Image description: The bag is large and very pink. On it, one character shows another a comic, and they respond by bursting into tears.

Paradise Systems will be in Montreal for MCAF 15 (@fbdm_mtl ). MCAF will also be the Canadian debut of our spicy new anthology SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, so come by to be the first to get a copy north of the border (and to stock up on the rest of our catalogue of course!). We will be there for all three days of the festival, from May 15 to 17: ⌚️ Friday 12pm to 8pm ⌚️ Saturday 10am to 8pm ⌚️ Sunday 10am to 5pm #FBDMCAF2026 Image description: A drawing of our table showing an assortment of Paradise Systems books spread and propped up across a bright yellow tablecloth. Above the table is a poster for the featured event, the 15th Montreal Comic Arts Festival, and there’s a bit of text next to it that says “See you at MCAF!” Hanging in front of the table are extra details: “May 15-17 (Fri-Sun), see caption for hours. Saint-Denis Street between Gilford and Roy. Table B17.” All of this is set on top of a photo background of leafy trees in Mont Royal park.

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🥇It’s official, our brand new anthology won an award of excellence and MoCCA, we’re so proud 🥹 Image description: A photo of SYSTEM 01: Hot Not Hotel with a handsome blue ribbon on it, announcing how good it is.

Paradise Systems will be at MoCCA! We will be selling our brand new anthology SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, as well as a bunch of other cool new stuff! See you there Image description: A drawing of our table showing a few Paradise Systems books spread across a yellow tablecloth. In the background, an atmospheric drawing of the moon and its reflection by pigao.

🌟终于成书了，谢谢 @paradisesystems 很开心能和这么多优秀的创作者共享这个SYSTEM🌟

Today on our blog we're featuring an interview with Beijing-based cartoonist Toyoya (@toyoyali ). We are so thrilled to have Toyoya's book Ritual Machine, and wanted to dig deeper into the process behind it. Read the whole interview here: /blogs/blog-posts/interview-with-toyoya Image description: Screencaps from the blogpost. The first says "November 26, 2025 Interview with Toyoya" and has a brief introduction of the pixel art cartoonist. Later photos show snippets of the conversation, and two images showing how a hand drawn draft turns into a full comic.

Available now! We are shipping copies of Narrative Addiction 13 (2023)! This is the most recent installment of the long running comics magazine by Yan Cong @yancongyancongyancong and Zuo Ma @zuoma1983 . Both cartoonists have completed new chapters of their respective long running series. Yan Cong's is a surrealist trip among multiple distinct but overlapping groups of characters, while Zuo Ma's is a fictional story about teenagers growing up in China in the 1990s. At the back of the book are advertisements commissioned by supporters that made the book possible. Image description: The cover features a drawing of a videogame character walking into the sunset, stylized to reference the pixelation of classic arcade games. Further images show comics featuring a fist fight between two robots and Chinese school children meeting before class starts.

Paradise Systems recommends: 番茄蛋面 vol 1. by 岳明 (Tomato and Egg Noodles by Yue Ming @yyyueminggg ). Three bilingual comics compiled into one volume, often about the surreality of everyday life and objects. Yue Ming writes in the introduction that small objects can contain all the order and connections of the wider universe. These comics give the reader the same comfort as a bowl of tomato and egg noodles after a long, strange day. [Image Description: These comics are pencil-drawn. One panel depicts a person getting off of an alienating phone call and making a bowl of tomato egg noodles out of various objects around their apartment. Tomatoes grow behind the couch, and a lightbulb is actually an egg.]

Paradise Systems recommends: Cult 青年的选择 (Cult Youth Selects) is an underground comic book compiling the work of 15 Chinese cartoonists. Among the boom of anthologies from the late aughts in China, we often think of Special Comix (SC) or Narrative Addiction, but there were many others as well. Brash and unapologetic, these 2000s comics ask what it means to choose: a life, a job, a career, a family, a CD player, a TV, or one’s friends. This group of “sensitive, intelligent and inspired urban youth” (”机智、敏感、灵活充沛的都会青年“) portray the restlessness of youth with a punk and camp sensibility. Many thanks to Bini, who donated a copy of this long out of print comic to the Paradise Library. [Image Description: A series of black and white comics of different styles. The images are bold, funny, and sometimes grotesque: circus performers, monsters, dead pigs, pulled-out teeth, a couple making out. The words COCK CIRCUS, CHICKEN KILLER, 啊！and 笨dàn are visible.]