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The Pork Chops Inferno (Deluxe Juicy Extended Mix) 十八樓燒肉(多汁滴油版)

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+ The Pork Chops Inferno (Deluxe Juicy Extended Mix) Author: LAI TAT TAT WING Format: Binding paperback Number of pages: 348 pp Dimensions: 125 x 175 mm Publishing House: LAI TAT TAT WING (Hong Kong) Date of publication: October 2017 Language : Traditional Chinese Author’s bio: Lai Tat Tat Wing has been very fond of comics writing since he was a kid. When he was at school, he would distribute photocopies of his works to his classmates and friends. Over the past 20 or so years, he has been experimenting the form of comics. Lai Tat Tat Wing’s comics are widely distributed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Latvia, and France. Examples of his works are Picking Up A Pig Tale, Woody Woody Wood, The Magic Flute, A Parading Zoo in Taiwan, Far From Frustration, Poisoning the Chicken Soup, Stand Behind the Island Line, Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, East Wing West Wing, 2600 Years Ago, My Dog Can Draw, Horror Horror Woody’s Cube, The Pork Chops Inferno, The Meatballs Inferno, The Cupcakes Inferno and the more recent work Three Senses of Youth 1234. The Pork Chop Inferno received the Silver Award at the Japan International Manga Award in 2019. Lai Tat Tat Wing has also involved himself in theatre production and casted in a number of plays, e.g. children musical called The Magic Flute Playground, and The Pork Chops Inferno Theatre. Book description: Juicy, fatty pork chops are grilled in inferno! Seven fat middle-aged real estate agents, devoured by flames in an office fire, become spectres. They can walk through walls and change size. When they want to eat, they burn magazines printed with images of food — in a way reminiscent of the Chinese tradition of burning joss paper offerings to the deceased — turning them into wonderful meals. Spirits multiply through the photocopiers. The dead cannot be resurrected, and the conflicts grow intense. The office is hell. Everyone plays Monopoly with human heads as dices. A real-estate version of Lord of the Flies, Lai Tat Tat Wing’s The Pork Chops Inferno intrigues every reader and invites rumination. Lai Tat Tat Wing conceived The Pork Chops Inferno as he decided to create a story about hell. An artist who relies heavily on the visuals to develop his comics sequences, Lai Tat Tat Wing set out to create a wordless narrative driven entirely by the images and the actions of the characters. The drama of the ghostly goings-on unfolding in the panels is heightened by the creepiness of the setting of the story — the office of a real estate agency where everything turns bizarre after a fire. The ceilings can move automatically; the photocopier can print ghosts and monsters. Under the office desks are all architectural models and miniatures of show flats. The characters are at times as huge as giants, while at other times they are as tiny as ants. The Pork Chops Inferno is inspired by British writer William Golding’s literary classic Lord of the Flies, in which a group of boys are marooned on an uninhabited land after a plane crash in the midst of a raging war. They become bloodthirsty savages as they go undisciplined and crave for power. One of the boys, Piggy, owns a pair of glasses, which is used to generate fire — and this is the reason why he is killed. The scene is channelled in The Pork Chops Inferno, where the fat real estate agents are desperate to get hold of a cigarette lighter because they cannot touch anything unless it is burnt. The Pork Chops Inferno, with its terrifying portrayal of “office savagery”, can be considered an adult version of Lord of the Flies. 十八樓燒肉(多汁滴油版) 作者︰黎達達榮 格式：裝幀平裝 頁數︰348頁 尺寸： 125 x 175mm 出版： 黎達達榮（香港） 出版日期：2017年10月 語言：繁體中文 作者簡介： 自小喜愛畫漫畫，影印給同學傳閱。20 多年來以漫畫的格式作為實驗對象。其漫畫作品在香港、臺灣、拉脫維亞及法國皆有發行，包括《慢慢豬．凸凸交》、《木積積．中中值》、《魔笛》、《動物園臺灣出巡》、《咆哮脂肪》、《毒雞湯》、《港島線》、《龍虎門徒》、《東宮西宮》、《2600 年前》、《罰養犬》、《扭鬼鬼色木積積20 週年大長篇》和《十八樓燒肉》、《十七樓叉燒》、《十六樓油雞》及《青春耳鼻喉1234》。他更憑《十八》贏得第12 屆日本國際漫畫賞銀獎。多年來，他亦積極參與劇場創作，作品有兒童音樂劇《魔笛遊樂場》及《十八樓燒肉劇場》。 作品介紹： 地獄級猛火燒制中年脂肪，分外肥美。七個地產佬遇上辦公室大火，西裝男變成穿牆魂魄，以燒衣紙為生，用影印機繁殖靈魂。人死不能復生，內鬥卻更兇狠；辦公室即地獄，office中自有黑白無常，大玩人頭骰子大富翁，樓市版《蒼蠅王》耐人尋味。 這個《十八樓燒肉》起初的想法是畫一個地獄有關的故事，以視覺主導製作漫畫的我，嘗試製作出一個完沒有對白，單靠漫畫角色動作，猶如默片說故事的作品。同時借助一個房地產辦公室裡面的環境和物件來強化角色的鬼異處境。在頭頂自行移動的天花板、能夠打印鬼神的影印機、辦公桌下佈滿細小的房地產樓盤和示範單位、角色一時是巨人，一時細小如螞蟻。故事其實是《蒼蠅王》的變奏版，大家或者記得《蒼蠅王》的故事：兩隊戰時意外流落荒島的英國童軍和詩歌班，因為紀律崩壞而慢慢變成了以暴力爭權奪利的小野人，其中一個叫小豬的胖子，他的放大鏡眼鏡成了生火的符號，最後也是他慘被殺害的原因。《十八樓燒肉》可以說是成年肥佬都市地產商人死亡辦公室版本的《蒼蠅王》吧。
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