Private Experience: SC Comic Special

This is a collection of independent Chinese comics, featuring 29 comics by 26 authors, each with a distinctly different style. The book is divided into nine parts: Prologue, Future, Roaming, Longing, Strolling, Experience, Eclectic, Reality, and SC (Editor's Story). It includes selected works that have been nominated twice for the Angoulême International Comics Festival and won the "Alternative Comics Prize" at Angoulême, as well as new works by emerging artists, and new selections and arrangements. These works, through the unique perspectives and styles of various cartoonists, showcase their personal experiences or inner fantasies, inviting readers to share the journey. From form to content, this book demonstrates the potential of comics to transcend common understanding, leading readers into the uncharted territory of comics.

SC stands for "special comix," meaning "special comics" or "unusual comics" in Chinese. In 2010, "SC" won the "Alternative Comics Prize" at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, making it the only award Chinese comics have received in the official competition unit at Angoulême to date. "Private Experience: SC Comic Special" is based on the award-winning "SC," with new selections and arrangements. From the first issue of "SC" in 2004 to now, this original comic collection, which has been underground for 20 years, is finally meeting readers in the form of an official publication.

An unprecedented kaleidoscope of original and eclectic comics.

As editor Hu Xiaojiang says, "Private Experience" is a true anomaly for readers, a monster never before seen in the comic publishing world. Most of the authors have never been formally published, and the visual styles and thematic types of most of the works are unprecedented. For example, the pressure before the college entrance exam, the documentation of surgery, the experience of a simple walk, a confusing sense of aimlessness that isn't entertaining at all, teenage dreams, nonsensical nightmares, some pungent allegories, beggars on the subway, disinfected homes, children in an earthquake, and so on. There are also some purely personal matters, through which real people and real lives can be seen.

People are always told they need a good story.

Drawing comics is not about telling a story, but about sharing a unique experience; reading comics is not about reading a story, but about making another's experience your own. Story is food, but comics are wine; story is snow, but comics are the city. When grain is brewed into wine, when snow covers the city. This is an era of private experiences, where everyone shares their own experiences and finds satisfaction in the experiences of others. This is true for social media, short videos, movies and games, literature and painting, and comics are no exception. Just like the movie "Being John Malkovich," this book is like a secret passage for readers to enter the minds of different authors, revealing every sight, sound, thought, and feeling of a given moment.