Take A Magical Mystery Tour With This Chinese Comic Artist
"If I could put it into words, I wouldn't be drawing it," says one of the characters in Zuo Ma's surreal graphic novel Night Bus, a collection of stories that drives through every literary boundary.
"If I could put it into words, I wouldn't be drawing it," is how Zuo Ma's alter-ego expresses his refusal to impose linear structure on the meandering dreamscape traversed by the Chinese comic artist's collection of 11 lushly-drawn stories. Deftly translated by , Zuo Ma's tales are literally eye-opening trips that embody Proust's yearning in: "The only true voyage of discovery would be to behold the universe through the eyes of another ... [and] the hundred universes that each of them beholds."
