In the darkness of 2022

✧ Dedicated to everyone who has ever run through the night ✧

A personal graphic diary born during the pandemic year
A person who kept running through stagnant time and space
In the darkness of 2022
When the air began to thin
Still had to cut through the mist, and breathe deeply
......
"It felt like the tunnel was so long it had no end, but finally, I made it through."

｜About This Book｜

"Please control the soul's desire for freedom; do not open the window and sing."

It was the year we wore masks and couldn't see each other's expressions;
It was also a year of being caught in chaos, yet unable to stop running.
In those days when the pause button was pressed,
How does one continue to live?

"It felt like the tunnel was so long it had no end, but finally, I made it made through."

A personal graphic diary written in the dark,
Emerging cartoonist mao uses delicate and keen black-and-white strokes
To record the farewells, waits, escapes, and hesitations of 2022.

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In 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage globally, and daily life here was divided into two:

In the first half, pandemic prevention policies became increasingly strict, with nucleic acid tests, lockdowns, and quarantines becoming the new normal.
In the second half, policies suddenly "opened up," as if nothing had happened.

In this year, mao witnessed people with nowhere to go on New Year's Eve
Saw one absurd news story after another
Experienced isolation and lockdowns repeatedly

During the darkest times, mao and her friends kept moving:
From one city to another,
From one friend's dinner table to another friend's sofa,
Sharing hard-to-find painkillers with a stranger...

"The things I thought I had lost continued in another way."