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  • Title:Dreaming in the Garden
  • Original Title:Dreaming in the Garden
  • English Title:Peony and Butterfly
  • Author:Shada (Shada April)
  • Publisher:Tip
  • Publication Date:2011-02-14
  • Language:traditional Chinese
  • ISBN10:7702238119
  • ISBN13:4717702238117
  • Binding:Hardcover / 86 pages / 8k chrysanthemum / 21 x 29.7 cm / normal grade / full color printing / first edition
  • Price:460 yuan

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Strictly speaking, this should be regarded as a short comic book collection, but it is quite special to make it into a general art book size and a hardcover specification. Therefore, the price is even higher than that of many art collections. I just bought this book after seeing a cheap second-hand book.

If you only want to receive the exquisite illustrations in "A Dream in the Garden", you can consider receiving "A Dream in the Garden"Early Summer: Shada's Personal Painting Collection"It's good, everything is recorded. But regardless of the content inside, the design of the book "A Dream in the Garden" should be liked by many people; the cover, the inner cover, and the matching text are all designed in the form of ancient Chinese books (straight manuscript paper?), the book The edge pages are also specially designed (see the image below).

The content is five short stories derived from ancient poems, namely "A Dream in the Garden", "Feng Qiuhuang", "Jianjia", "A Jing", and "Rabbit". I especially like "Rabbit" and "Jianjia" , the former's fluffy rabbit is really cute (it is also a human being); the latter is a favorite of "Jianjia" in the Book of Songs, and the words and the comic stories are very good!

Xia Da's personal painting collection unboxing:

Bunny in snowball fight 🐇 ↓

The picture below is a rabbit from Xia Da's personal collection↓

Official Introduction

The author Xia Da's painting style is fresh and natural, with graceful and exquisite lines, with his own distinctive style. The artworks are all hand-painted line drafts and then coloured by computer, and some are coloured by watercolors. The detailed picture reveals a strong Chinese ink style, and the charming and beautiful atmosphere is blowing on the face. Compared with other Chinese cartoonists, who often use simple lines or shadows to describe details and scenes, Xia Da's pursuit of the depiction of the environment and details is intricate. The atmosphere and quietness that are rare among shoujo manga artists in the same period.

The five short stories all say gods and monsters, but it’s not so strange that there are no gods, and people can’t even judge whether these can be called “story” because it is too simple! Only a long stare, a dazed wait and a momentary hug will end the story.

About the Author

Shada (Shada April)

Chinese cartoonist, the manga "Zibuyu", after being strongly recommended by Japan's Shueisha editor-in-chief Motegi Yukio and the famous manga editor Matsui Eigen, officially landed in Japan, and was serialized with Japan's top manga masters in the top manga magazine " UltraJump", became the only original manga in China that entered Japan's top manga magazines after becoming popular.

Features of the work: The painting style is delicate, the ancient style is strong, and the atmosphere is calm.

Awards received: Newcomer Award at the 1st China-Japan Youth Exchange Comics Festival, the 3rd China Comics and Short Story Comic Excellence Award "Winter Fairy Tale", the 5th Golden Dragon Award for Best Girl Comics for "Zibuyu", the sixth "Godzilla Does Not Talk" won the "Beautiful Monkey Award" of the China International Cartoon and Animation Festival for the Best Chinese Comic Work Award.

Representative works: "A Dream in the Garden", "Early Summer", "Zibuyu", "Similar", "Morning Star in Midland", "Godzilla Does Not Talk", "Will Love", "Morning Star"long song line", "Bu Tiange》

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Content

  • 01 – Sequence
  • 03 – Dream in the Garden
  • 13 – Feng Qiuhuang
  • 23 – Jianjia
  • 33 – A Jing
  • 43 – Rabbit
  • 68 – Post sequence
  • 71 – Scattered Whispers
  • 83 – Total Postorder
  • 85 – Poetry Background

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