for now

9 understated yet profound everyday moments in modern Taipei, their urban murmurings

Naturally rendered strokes capture fleeting moments of life

Blue-gray ink distills the essence of you and me bustling through the city

Lingering here for our own reasons

Everyone is a passerby, everyone is also a protagonist

🏆 Accolades

🔹 2021 Taipei International Book Exhibition Grand Prize for Non-Fiction (First Place)

🔹 11th Golden Comic Awards for Comic of the Year

🔹 Nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival New Talent Award in 2015 and 2019

📖 Exquisitely bound with exposed spine / Special inclusion of author's message / Comes with a double-page poster

When I first conceived of this comic collection, I envisioned it for women between 20 and 35. Most of them, like me, are not yet married, and I can better imagine what women of this age might think from my own perspective.

— Chen Pei-Hsiu

🔵 Editor's Recommendation

◎ A brilliant new female Taiwanese comic artist who stands out with a rare style of drawing and storytelling.

Chen Pei-Hsiu is a creator who delves into realistic themes. In interviews, she stated that she dislikes fakery and fears boredom. She believes that ordinary life is composed of many human relationships, and she approaches it like solving a puzzle, then deconstructing and analyzing it.