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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Book Inferno by Chihoi Launch Event September 17 at 7-9pm Desert Island 490 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn NY Image description: details of the book launch imposed on top of one of Chihoi’s graphite illustrations, depicting a chaotic card catalog at a library.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There is one story from Book Inferno that does not appear in its pages - the secret chapter Basement. In order to read this chapter, you will need come to Desert Island on September 17 (an additional viewing will happen during NYABF, details forthcoming). No photos of Basement will be allowed. 📸🙅

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY We will be hosting the one and only Chihoi for a book launch at legendary NYC comic shop Desert Island. What a treat to be able to celebrate this incredible book with this incredible author at this incredible bookstore etc etc etc!

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In a series of vignettes centering on books, lust, and punishment, Chihoi’s virtuoso blend of humor and pathos deserves a spot in every library. Image description: In Chihoi’s graphite illustrations, characters young and old navigate worlds shaped by books.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We could not be more thrilled to announce the launch of Book Inferno by Chihoi. This collection of comics by the Hong Kong/Taiwanese cartoonist exemplifies his effortlessly haunting storytelling. paradise-systems.com/products/boo...

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Paradise Systems will be tabling at Small Press Expo this weekend September 12–13! We will be selling our anthology as well as other books we just published! Come say hi at Table H9 👋🏼

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 SPX, and there’s a bit of text next to it that says “SEE YOU AT SPX!” Hanging in front of the table are extra details: “September 12 & 13, 2006, Bethesda North Marriott
Hotel & Conference Center, Table H9.” All of this is set on top of Yan Cong's Illustration of a night sky over grassland that also appears on the cover of Narrative Addiction 14.

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The Kotzer From The Zack Lagoon @zaaack.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

i waited too long at zine dump and missed out on these DON'T MAKE MY MISTAKE

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Sendai Books @sendaibooks.eu · 24/04/2026

NEW MANGA AVAILABLE! 🐠 SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel Custom-free and with FREE shipping! 🇪🇺 Affordable shipping elsewhere 🇦🇺 Format: 26x19.5 cm, 120 pages From @paradisesystems.bsky.social 📯 sendaibooks.eu/hotnet

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Image description: The bag is large and very pink. On it, one character shows another a comic, and they respond by bursting into tears.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Inkee Wang'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! paradise-systems.com/products/fri... Dimensions: 17 in x 14 in with 7 in x 10 in zine pouch

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Featuring: Han Xiao 韩笑, Boilingman 保龄曼, Ganmu 甘木, toyoya 李帆, Xiang Yata 象牙塔, KKCIT, Woshibai 我是白, Fiona Peace 和平, Tou Yeye, gantea, fenta 粉塔, Wang XX 王XX, rere 热热, Pigao 唐筠, Zheng Nanqibai 郑南七白

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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. paradise-systems.com/products/sys...

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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.

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today on our blog we're featuring an interview with Beijing-based cartoonist Toyoya. 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: paradise-systems.com/blogs/blog-p...

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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 and Zuo Ma. Both cartoonists have completed new chapters of their respective long running series. paradise-systems.com/products/nar...

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

[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.]

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Paradise Systems recommends: 番茄蛋面 vol 1. by 岳明 (Tomato and Egg Noodles by Yue Ming). Three bilingual comics compiled into one volume, often about the surreality of everyday life and objects.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

[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.]

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Many thanks to Bini, who donated a copy of this long out of print comic to the Paradise Library.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Han Xiao 韩笑, Boilingman 保龄曼, Ganmu 甘木, toyoya 李帆, Xiang Yata 象牙塔, KKCIT, Woshibai 我是白, Fiona Peace 和平, Tou Yeye, gantea, fenta 粉塔, Wang XX 王XX, rere 热热 , Pigao 唐筠, Zheng Nanqibai 郑南七白

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

TYSM for supporting our crowdfunding campaign!!! We are finalizing the book and it will be PRINTING SOON! At the risk of repeating ourselves, none of this would be possible without the incredible work of the cartoonists we work. Do yourself a favor and check out more of their amazing work!

The cover of the book floats above a gradient background, with a list of all the authors names below it. On the cover is a hodgepodge of sea life

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We are down to the final hours of the kickstarter for our anthology SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel! Here is the amazing cover, with an illustration by Mojo Wang @mojowang.bsky.social . We are such huge fans of Mojo's work, and thank you again to Patrick Crotty for laying out the cover.

The cover features a swarm of fish (joined by a few crustaceans) all moving together to the right, their giant eyes dotted across the page. Behind them is a grid, accepted by a few gradient boxes housing the title.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Patrick Crotty of Peow2 graciously agreed to do the book design on Hot Net Hotel, and it came out so lovely! Huge thank you to Patrick for all the care and thoughtfulness he brought to this project 😭 SYSTEM01: Hot Net Hotel is now funding on kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

The book mockup lying open. To the left of the comic is a title page made of a squares, and a few squares are slightly tilted.

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Sendai Books @sendaibooks.eu · 27/09/2025

NEW MANGA AVAILABLE! 🦇 Haze Cave by Pigao 💜 Custom-free and with FREE shipping! 🇪🇺 Affordable shipping elsewhere 🇦🇺 Format: 80 pages, A5 size From @paradisesystems.bsky.social 📯 sendaibooks.eu/haze

Haze Cave is a semi-autobiographical story by Hangzhou-based cartoonist and publisher Pigao. Broken into two related stories, the first half finds the artist struggling with rent and displacement on the outskirts of Beijing. In the second half, Pigao attempts to return to a place from her past, only to find her memories lead her deeper into mysteries she cannot resolve. Throughout the book, Pigao’s fine pencil work and restrained palette beautifully capture a moment of transition and upheaval.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We added a new tier, and you can adjust your pledge if you'd like. We really appreciate your support as we wrap up this huge project!

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

For the launch of the tote, we have reprinted her zine, and the tote bag was designed with a special pocket that perfectly fits the zine. For the moment, the tote and zine are only available as part of the Kickstarter.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Inkee's poignant illustration of two friends crying together while reading a comic has been lovingly screen printed on this fancy zippered canvas bag! Longtime followers will remember that we did a zine with Inkee, Friendship Forever, which quickly sold out.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

To close out our Kickstarter campaign for Hot Net Hotel, we have added a new tier with another project we have long been working on, a truly stunning tote bag by one of our favorite artists, Inkee Wang!

Image description: A hand holding the bright pink bag. It has a black and white silkscreen of two characters, drawn in bulbous shapes, looking together at a comic. Tears run down one of their faces.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Page from System Error by Zheng Nanqibai 郑南七白 (Beijing, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Zheng Nanqibai’s previously published works include: -最后一颗智齿 (cult青年的选择) -存档点 (Game, Wild Things Press) -猫咪不在乎 (kuš!)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Spread from Capture by Xiang Yata 象牙塔 (Beijing, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Xiang Yata’s previously published works include: -红宝石的谜光 (纸耕堂) -Captivity (Paradise Systems) -Optometry (Driftwood Press)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Excerpt from Husband by Woshibai 我是白 (Shanghai, CN) Translation by Tiffany Wu This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Excerpt from Constipation of the Soul by Wang XX 王XX (Shanghai, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Wang XX’s previously published works include: -好好休息才是正经事啊(译林出版社) -Sealf-Care for Everyone (The Experiment)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Page from Net by toyoya 李帆 (Beijing, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... toyoya’s previously published works include: -Peach Boy (Paradise Systems) -Hole (self-published) -Ritual Machine (Paradise Systems / Yanshu)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Page from Homeland by Tou Yeye (London, UK) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Tou Yeye’s previous works include: -Blue Beetle -Monstrous Plague -Naked Lunch Thermoshrink

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Page from The Naming by rere 热热 (Shanghai, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Rere’s previously published works include: -The Mountain (Yanshu) -牢的巨石 (Yanshu) -蓝莓之夜 (Wild Things Press)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Excerpt from Reflections by the Night by Pigao 唐筠 (Hangzhou, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Pigao’s previously published works include: -Haze Cave (Paradise Systems) -大蘑和二蘑 (浙江少年儿童出版社) -我和小猪有一块布丁 (浙江少年儿童出版社)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Page from Hunger Breeds Discontentment by KKCIT (Qingdao, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... KKCIT’s previous works include: -Built in Summer( FÉNOMENA, Papayep & One-Way Street） -星间碎片 (self-published)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Excerpt from Worm World by Han Xiao 韩笑 (Offenbach, DE) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Han Xiao’s previous works include: -Green Purple Blue You (self-published) -Disco Ausgang (self-published)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Blanket Creature by gantea (Shanghai, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... gantea’s previously published works include: -Two Stories (Paradise Systems) -The South Park (O.Q Comics) -らんらんと私 (Hand Saw Press)

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Excerpt from Heat by Ganmu 甘木 (Dalian, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Ganmu is the author of Murmur, previously published by O.Q Comics and Paradise Systems.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Excerpt from He Hua by Fiona Peace 和平 (Beijing, CN) This comic appears in SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel, funding now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par... Fiona is the author of Electrocat & Lightning Dog, previously published by Paradise Systems.

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