Memories of Taiwan - Paperback

by Ray Hecht (Editor)

What's it like to make a home on an island the rest of the world can't stop arguing about? Memories of Taiwan collects the complete run of the acclaimed self-published series Visions of Taiwan (#1-4) into one volume - true stories, told in comics, by eighteen writers and artists who left home and found themselves in Taiwan. Editor Ray Hecht set out simply to draw about riding a scooter around Taipei. What grew from that is this: a chorus of outsiders' perspectives - American, Canadian, Northern Irish, Honduran, Colombian, South African, Italian, Malaysian, Indonesian - each rendering their own corner of Taiwanese life in a wildly different visual style, from woodcut printmaking to digital illustration to loose autobiographical sketch comics. Inside these pages: a first scooter license gone wrong, a solo move across the world, Ghost Month superstitions, tomb-sweeping traditions, night markets and farm stays, dragon boats and betel nut stands, love found and family built far from home. Some stories are funny. Some are quietly devastating. All of them are real. Taiwan's future is uncertain, and so, these days, is the rest of the world's. Memories of Taiwan isn't a political statement - it's a record of the everyday, told by the people who chose to live it. As Hecht writes: it's worth remembering. Edited by Ray Hecht. Cover by Bronwen Shelwell. Published by SLG Publishing.

Contributors: Erique Chong, Kristin Foss, Joel Fremming, Kim Glidden, Fabienne Good, Ray Hecht, Patty Hogan, Roelien Immelman, T hai Martin, Stefano Misesti, Daniel C. Moore, Paulina Olejnik, Andrew Quartermain, Jon Renzella, Angela Sauceda, Bronwen Shelwell, Daniel Martinez Sierra, Royce Widjaya, Todd Allen Williams