Ritual Machine - Toyoya Li

Ritual Machine by Toyoya Li / ISBN 9781951078119 / a small 138-page paperback with holographic cover, 4.5 x 6.25 inches, color offset printing, published by Paradise Systems

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Beijing-based cartoonist Toyoya Li's first long-form work is a mind-warping journey through a pixelated, dystopic future. After a showdown with the Virtual Wizard, will either of our fearless heroes make it back to meatspace? The front and back cover of this book are holographic prints featuring Li's GIFs.

Li Fan (Toyoya) lives in Beijing, where he works as a pixel artist and animator. He is interested in unique and bizarre visual media of all kinds, and has a collection of '80s and '90s electronics hardware which serves as inspiration for his work.