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Spells for Bad Chinese: Ellipsis Process Blog – Paradise Systems

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This blog post, by Diane Zhou, describes the creative process behind her comic Ellipsis.

This blog post, by Diane Zhou, describes the creative process behind her comic Ellipsis . In 2016-2017, I spent a year living in Beijing. However, my Chinese was/is not that awesome, since I grew up in America and learned it as a foreign language. I blend in until I start speaking, the repeated moment of betrayal inevitably triggering interrogations about my origins. This state of cultural/linguistic purgatory led to the process that I used to create Ellipsis , a comic about a duck egg farmer who gets hit with mystical hail and becomes a deity. To structure the plot, I used what Orion of Parad

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