Quiet Thoughts is a collection of Karen Shangguan’s gentle and poetic comic narratives, published by Avery Hill Publishing. Varying in levels of abstractness, but consistently beautiful, Shangguan’s art allows us…
Avery Hill Publishing, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award winners for 2020, have announced six books coming this year and it’s another cracking line-up of returning artists and new names. A…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Ahead of ELCAF, we caught up with Vancouver-based illustrator Karen Shangguan, whose subtle drawings fuse ideas of warmth, vulnerability and the natural world in a palette of earthy…
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