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This zine is completely hand bound, in this traditional Chinese binding method Long Lin Zhuang (龙鳞装). However, in the traditional style, it should be a roll, but my paper are not thin enough for the roll to work, so I improved it into this accordion fold.
All the images are hand drawn and scanned, then photoshopped to plain black and white.
This zine is about the Chinese legend of the way to the underworld after a person dies. So it start with the imagery of the alive's world, and after flipping though the way to the underworld, it form a image of the underworld.
This zine won an Award of Excellence at MoCCA 2023.
Some scans of the original
![Normal world scan](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/normal_world_scan.jpg)
![Spreads scans](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/drawings_scan.jpg)
Some photoshopped images
![Underworld image](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/umderworld.jpg)
![Hei Bai Wu Chang drawing](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/hei bai wu chang drawing.jpg)
![Hei Bai Wu Chang text](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/hei bai wu chang text.jpg)
![Gui Men Guan drawing](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/gui men guan drawing.jpg)
![Gui Men Guan text](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/gui men guan text.jpg)
![Huang Quan Lu drawing](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/huang quan lu drawing.jpg)
![Huang Quan Lu text](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/huang quan lu text.jpg)
![Nai He Qiao drawing](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/nai he qiao drawing.jpg)
![Nai He Qiao text](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/nai he qiao text.jpg)
![Meng Po Tang drawing](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/meng po tang drawing.jpg)
![Meng Po Tang text](../images/the_way_to_the_underworld/meng po tang text.jpg)