Inspired by The Simpsons and Bojack Horseman, A comic book of America is a series of illustration drawn on the iPad. The series is created with references from the artist’s daily iPhone photographs, recreating moments of the artist’s encounters in the artist’s cross-cultural, American-based life. A comic book of America resembles the simple expression in colors and figures from The Simpsons and Bojack Horseman; through which, the artist shows his appreciation of how social issues, adventurous experiences, and humanity are well mixed in existence through vivid and fun storytellings. Different from The Simpsons and Bojack Horseman, the elements in the illustration in A comic book of America, either in detail or in chunk, originated from different photographs taken in real life. The elements of colors, figures, and scenes, drawn from different photographs of moments of encounters in life, are layered elaborately into single illustrations. By doing this, the artist enlarges small pieces of his personal experiences with a telescope and presents them to a universal audience, in hope of initiating and facilitating conversations between the artist and the viewers, and among the viewers, as they experience culture and life encounters.
Each illustration was drawn at a different time and place, and was on a separate occasion and encounters. The complete series is still work in progress.
《美国连环画》是一个在iPad上进行的系列绘画作品。这个系列作品取材于艺术家日常用手机拍摄下来的镜头，对其基于美国的多文化融合生活进行再创作。受到《辛普森一家》和《马男波杰克》的启发，艺术家保留了在颜色和人物的简洁的表达方式，来传达他对于社会问题、冒险经历和人性在饱满的讲述中相互对话、融合的欣赏。与《辛普森一家》和《马男波杰克》不同的是，《美国连环画》插图中的元素，无论是在细节上还是在整体上，都源于现实生活中拍摄的不同照片。色彩、人物和场景这些元素，都从生活中遇到的不同时刻的照片中，被精心分层组合成单一的插图。通过这样做，艺术家放大了他个人经历的一小部分，用“望远镜”把它们呈现给全世界的观众，希望在艺术家和观众之间，以及观众中间，创造一个更广大的文化、生活中的邂逅的体验。
每幅插图都是在不同的时间和地点绘制的，而且是在分开的场合和情境中绘制的。《美国连环画》整个系列仍在创作中。
*The works and the surroundings can be purchased at the following address:
BonJour Art Book Shop, Nanjing, China
ONE BITE Illustration Art Shop, Chengdu, China
Suspended Space, Chengdu, China
Or Taobao online shop: 美国连环画
插画作品及其周边可以在以下地址购买：
不熟艺术书店，南京，中国
ONE BITE插画艺术书店，成都，中国
待用空间，成都，中国
或者淘宝店铺搜索：美国连环画
