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Peter’s Tik & Tok Illustrated Fiction (New Chinese Edition) gonna publish finally.

These are some snap-shots taken during the printing process in China!!

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The Black Book of Falling
Peter Suart

Peter Suart est un auteur, illustrateur, musicien, acteur qui a longtemps vécu à Hong Kong. Après une série de livres illustrés pour enfants en langue anglaise, il se lance dans la bande dessinée avec ces deux personnages de prédilection, Tik et Tok, égarés dans un trou noir. Ils finissent par retrouver leur chemin pour déboucher dans un monde déroutant d’étrangers, secoué par de dangeureuses forces naturelles et dans lequel ils ne cessent de tomber de hauteurs vertigineuses. Et ne l’oublions pas, Peter Suart est un philosophe, ils se retrouvent confrontés aux grandes questions de l’existence alors qu’ils sont dangeureusement suspendus au-dessus des gouffres : « Où allons-nous ? Quel est l’intêrêt de tout cela ? Comment devons-nous nous traitrer l’un, l’autre ? » et surtout : « Comment sommes-nous tombés dans cette maudite bande dessinée ? »

Un livre en noir et blanc magnifiquement dessiné dans lequel Suart joue avec toutes les possibilités du dessin de BD mais aussi d’interessantes utilisations du noir et blanc. Il est dommage que les profondeurs du noir de ses planches soient atténuées à l’imprimerie.

在香港定居已久的彼得小話既是作家、插圖畫家、樂手亦是演員。在創作了一系列英文的兒童圖畫故事書後，他開始創作以Tik及Tok 這兩個人物為題的連環圖。在《The Black Book of Falling》中，Tik 及Tok 誤進黑洞內，幾經辛苦找到離開黑洞的路，卻發現處身一個充滿怪人的地方。他們處處碰壁，不知何去何從。大家不要忘記，彼得小話是一位哲學家，而當他們發現身處危險的懸崖之上的時候，不免要面對永恆不變的人生議題：〝我們何去何從？，如何生活？為甚麼會有暴力發生？這一切到底意味着甚麼？〞

這本黑白漫畫集非常精彩，彼得小話的原稿是利用水墨和印度墨創作，可惜經過印刷後，黑色的深度被淡化了。

book review by Gérard Henry
Directeur général adjoint/ Deputy Director
Editor-in-Chief (PAROLES Cultural Magazine)

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Peter Suart was sharing with a group of 170 Form 4 students his views and attitudes on self, life, world, interests, art, sports and his music. The session is delivered almost 100% Cantonese - students were amazed and impressed with his language fluency.

Peter Suart’s comics, The Black Book of Falling, will be lauched soon (mid of march) !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Photographer John Fung’s photography exhibition One Square Foot will be held end March and his art photography book be published by 1st April. Specially tailored for City Magazine readers, we has selected four photography works and prepared 40 limited edition sets for reservation before 20th March 2007. Each set has a limited edition original print (11” x 14”) and an art photography book autographed by the photographer. The price for each set is HK$2,000 (original value HK$2,750).

Readers who are interested in collecting John Fung’s works can either download the reservation form.
If you prefer to view the original prints first, please visit Fills In The Blanks Gallery (47 Gage Street, Central. Tel – 25433808).

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Exhibition, Book Launch and Talks at Hong Kong Arts Centre
March 2007

Co-presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and MCCM Creations.
This event is part of the Comic Home Base Project organized by Hong Kong Arts Centre. www.comixhomebase.com.hk
Enquiries : 2582 0200

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The Black Book of Falling - a comic book exhibition by Peter Suart

This is Tik and Tok’s first adventure in strip cartoon format. On page one they find their way out of a black hole into a bewildering world where they fall from one predicament into another, meeting a cast of strange people and encountering perennial human problems ??? Where are we going? How should we live? How does violence arise? What does it all mean?

Suart has looked at many of the cartoon greats’ Tintin, Asterix, Calvin and Hobbes, the Moomins and Little Nemo in Slumberland’ and has used many of the standard devices of the language of cartooning: the speech and think bubble, the materialised noise, the half-face close-up, the fisheye lens view, the silhouette, multiple perspectives, the nimbus round the head to signify presence or surprise.

The exhibition comprises fifty-eight black and white pages of dip pen and Indian ink drawings.

Date: 16/3 (Fri) -15/4 (Sun)
Time: 10am-8pm
Venue: 4/F Pao Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Free admission

North - Talk on Tik and Tok’s Seventh Adventure

In this book there are twenty-six pictures, twenty-six horsemen, twenty-six matches and twenty-six whales. Suart will talk on twenty-six topics including: Celebrity, The Call of the North, Don Quixote and Self-reference, Moby Dick and Nineteenth Century Whaling, Frankenstein, Cuddly Penguins, Polar Expeditions, Arcadia, and Global Warming. Oh, and What is Properly a Children??? Book in a Time of Global Peril.

Date: 18/3 (Sun)
Time: 2pm-3:15pm
Venue: 4/F Pao Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Free admission

The Illustrator and the Cartoonist - Talk by Peter Suart

Illustration and Strip Cartooning are distinct but related practices. Both are considered, spuriously, poor relations of Art. Peter Suart’s author, illustrator and Johnny-come-lately strip cartoonist will show slides of work by illustrators (Rackham, Dulac, Nielsen, Clarke), cartoonists (Herge, Uderzo, McCay, Watterson) and artists in the middle (Jansson, Beardsley, Heath Robinson). He will also look at his own Tik and Tok strip cartoon adventure The Black Book of Falling.

Date: 25/3 (Sun)
Time: 3pm-4:30pm
Venue: Agnes b. CINEMA
HK$50
(Registration & Enquiries 2582 0200)

[1] chinese edition
[2] english edition
[3] taiwan chinese edition
[4] US english edition
[5, 6, 7] china, simplified chinese edition

上星期，筆者在中環某英文書局出席朋友的新書發布會。新書名為《街道與空間‧變奏中的香港城市設計》(The Urban Design of Impermanence - Streets，Places and Spaces in HongKong)。全書以中英對照的文字及圖畫，勾畫出香港市區街道作為城市空間的個性和特色。
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Vincent Ng, Vice President of HKIA, wrote about the book “The Urban Design of Impermanence”

星島日報 A版, 吳永順
SingTao Daily A Section, Vincent Ng, 2006/12/9

Book Launch of “The Urban Design of Impermanence” at Kelly & Walsh Bookstore, Exchange Square

Sketches are freshly printed on papers.
They look so nice..

printing…

Gary’s Hotel As Home is published by Tsing Hua University Press in simplified chinese.
A book launch and seminar were held at the University in Beijing.
See! he is so popular.
The lecture hall was full of people. Lots of people even sat on the floor to listen to his stories.

我們給【墾光拓影】換了新書套，是用牛皮紙印的。
上面印上的都是南方公司過去設計的電影海報。

from ASIA, issue 3 2006