Just started a new blog on Chinese comics:

http://www.nickstember.com/

Modern Chinese Woodcuts from the 1930s / 中國三十年代現代木刻

Li Qun Portrait of Lu Xun, 1933-5, woodcut ,15 x 12.5 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum



Hu Yichuan To the Front, 1932, woodcut, 23.3 x 30.5 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Lin Shizhong Roar of Iron (1933-35), woodcut, 20.4 x 12.4 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Li Hua, Roar, China! 1935, woodcut


Wo Zha Drought, 1933-35, woodcut, 12.2 x 13.1 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Li Hua Roadworkers, 1934, woodcut, 17.1 x 21.5 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Zhang Hui Begging for Gentlemen's Kindness and Integrity, 1933-35, woodcut, 16.2 x 11.9 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Zhang Hui Sleeping in an Old Temple, 1933-35, woodcut, 15.2 x 12.9 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Zhang Hui Random Thoughts, 1933-35, woodcut, 22.3 x 16.3 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Pan Xuezhao Drought, 1933-35, woodcut, 13.7 x 17.7 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Lai Shaoqi Youth, 1933-35, woodcut, 13.5 x 12.1, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Modern Prints, Vol. 8, 1935, magazine, 22.5 x 19.5 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Modern Prints, Vol. 16, 1936, magazine, 27.7 x cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Modern Prints, Vol. 6, 1935, magazine, 23.3 x 20.5, Shanghai, Lu Xun Museum


Modern Prints, Vol. 7, 1935, magazine, 23.5 x 20.5 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Modern Prints, Vol. 4, 1935, magazine, 23.4 x 20.6, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Huang Xinbo Violent Winds and Fierce Waves, 1933-35, woodcut, 16.5 x 18.8 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Zheng Yefu Cover Design for Diary of a Runaway Girl by Wu Sihong, 1933, woodcut, 21 x 23.2 cm, Shanghai, Lu Xun Museum


Demanding an 8 hour work rest education system, 1933-5, woodcut, 13 x 14.3 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


He Baitao Harvest, 1934, woodcut, 23.5 x 29 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Chen Yanqiao Wild Flood, 1933-35, woodcut, 21.4 x 28.7 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum


Hu Yichuan Horror, 1931, woodcut, 26.8 x 21.7 cm, Shanghai Lu Xun Museum

美不胜收

popil and dezio on moganshan rd. shanghai.

popil:
http://quailcat.blogbus.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/popilcat/

interview with dezio:
http://www.bombingscience.com/index.php/blog/viewThread/1805

more from popil:






愛噪音 love noise http://www.converse.com.cn/lovenoise/
ad for converse.cn that I liked.

more from their site:




and lastly some things not Chinese:



cover art for the albums tirsdagsjam and ii by lindstrom & prins thomas. i wasn't able track down the artist for these but they reminded me of taiyo matsumoto (松本大洋), especially no. 5 (ナンバーファイブ 吾):






best quote ever from matsumoto btw:
"Please do not believe in comic artists' words. I think comics are like fake magic. To keep itself entertaining, it creates a secret device, and we are not creating comics out of supernatural power. Sometimes there are readers who have false idea about drawing comics are about using supernatural power."
-http://web.archive.org/web/20040803161149/http://www.inter-g7.or.jp/g2/manga/HTML/GHTML/MATIN.html