Opposite people

❤ If you can still smile, life isn't too bad.
❤ The debut work by treasure cartoonist LuRan, an "introvert's inner theater" followed by the entire internet
❤ Lays flat 180 degrees, pocket-sized, with a bonus DIY card
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【About the Book】
Highly recommended by Yixi, BIE other, OW Space, V magazine, and VOICER,
Delicately gentle yet rationally sharp, the internet's long-awaited mouthpiece for introverts,
The unique Lu Ran arrives with "The Opposite Person"!
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"The Opposite Person" is a four-panel comic starring Xiao Fan, Da Hei, and Xue Ren.
Those moments of inexplicable awkwardness, the embarrassment of trying to fit in, the powerlessness of self-doubt,
"The Opposite Person" records Xiao Fan and her friends' stumbling moments in life.
They doubt, they explore, they love, and they challenge the dusty routines of daily life, just like all of us.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
◁◀ Urgent notice: The world is absurd, now start going the opposite way
"The Opposite Person" depicts someone who always goes against the grain.
He walks backward, falls asleep when drinking coffee, feels at ease when mistaken for a fool, and occasionally wants to play a prank on a stagnant life.
But he doesn't truly accept himself, often consumed by self-doubt.
In his painful wandering, he realizes:
If life becomes a performance, and we become numb actors on an absurd stage, then being out of place is the real resistance.
◀◁ Three protagonists, three life paths, piercing the bubble with a brush
The self-proclaimed clear-headed intellectual judges everything, the sharp-tongued, world-weary social phobic negates everything, and the thick-skinned good Samaritan tolerates everything.
Relaxed banter, witty and profound, "The Opposite Person" trio's hilarious daily life is fully presented!
Is it to plunge into life without thinking, to consistently resist life,
Or to swing between engagement and resistance?
Allegorical scenes, brilliant golden phrases, a resonant work starting from everyday life.
◁◀ The introvert's mouthpiece cartoonist, long-awaited by countless readers
Lu Ran, diligently uses drawing to bypass language, expressing those everyday emotions we never voice,
Always maintaining sufficient distance from the world, using her work to present the mental exhaustion and self-healing of introverts.
She playfully satirizes life with humorous strokes, expresses life with delicate perceptions, and understands life with keen reflection.
◀◁ Pocket-sized, with DIY little surprises inside
148 × 105 bunko size, textured double cover, light and portable,
Exposed spine binding, lays flat 180 degrees, no resistance when turning pages.
Bonus "Paper Theater" DIY card, let's challenge dusty life together!
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【Media Reviews】
Both delicately soft and rationally sharp. To break free from standardized life, Lu Ran created someone who does everything in reverse, forcing herself to think differently.
——Yixi
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She doesn't shy away from the fundamental questioning of the self; her freedom isn't just because she chose another answer, but also because she bore all that came with it.
She uses her eyes and hands to give birth to her thoughts, giving meaning to her art, like mushrooms sprouting in invisible dampness, like tenacious wild grass in rock crevices, it will make your day shine!
——Voicer
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Lu Ran is not professionally trained and has never worked in a related field; drawing is merely an outlet for her emotions, a way for her to express herself, and a way for her to return to herself. She experiences life by telling stories.
——GLASS Magazine
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As a cartoonist, her creations are difficult to categorize, yet they precisely capture a pervasive, hidden emotion in contemporary life. ... As Lu Ran puts it, drawing comics is like extracting a formula from life, eliminating redundancy, to trigger a feeling mechanism with the most refined images and language. She is wary of self-indulgent creative methods. Fortunately, by regularly publishing comics on social media, she knows that the resonance between her and her readers always occurs, as undeniably as falling leaves make a sound when they hit the ground. You will always let out a slight sigh or a knowing smile when you encounter her comics.
——ARTDBL

2025-04-01

广西师范大学出版社

Moments of Encounter

220

9787559877666