ZHU PI

First released on the Weibo platform in January 2024.

All-new horror anthology featuring cover art by international bestseller, Junji Ito! All-new horror anthology featuring cover art by international bestseller, Junji Ito! Manga creators from Japan and the US present an international showcase of horror. Collected for the first time in Betwixt: A Horror Manga Anthology, six short stories reveal the universal fear of the space between the known and unknown. Will anyone cross that border? Featuring stories from a range of award-winning and popular creators, as well as a foreword and exclusive cover art by global phenomenon, Junji Ito. Ryo Hanada (creator of Devil’s Line), Aki Shimizu (creator of the Suikoden III manga), and Shima Shinya (creator of Lost Lad London and cowriter of Star Wars: The High Republic, The Edge of Balance) each tell uniquely Japanese tales of ghosts and creatures who exist alongside us. American creative duo, Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad (cowriters of Wonder Woman and Batgirls) along with duo Leslie Hung (cocreator of Snotgirl) and Sloane Leong (creator of A Map to the Sun) and up and coming creator Hua Hua Zhu round out the anthology with tales that would make anyone paranoid about who they may encounter.

In this world sits an endlessly tall tower. The inhabitants work tirelessly to reach the tower as soon as they can, but when asked why, not a single person can answer...

[Submission for Yaoqi Village] [Submission for China Academy of Art] Have you ever felt like this before? Like you're stuck, frozen in time, not sinking, but still exhausting yourself every day. An old short story drawn in 2021. It's hard to recreate how I felt then. There's no words because I didn't know what and how to say it. Lacking self-control, I could only draw this to comfort myself the best that I could. This is for our disjointed, disassociated, average lives. Dedicated to every ordinary person.