Jidi (cartoonist)

Jidi (Chinese: 寂地; born June 22, 1983) is the pen name of Zu Yale (Chinese: 祖雅乐), a Chinese illustrator and cartoonist. She graduated from Southwest University for Nationalities.[1]

Her representative work is the cartoon book, "My Way" series. She has won many cartoon awards home and abroad and participated in many international art interchange activities. Now lives in Dali, Yunnan. Since 2004, the cartoon books, "My Way" series have been successively published, and, at present, they have been authorized to publish in France, Malaysia and other countries. Meanwhile, the "My Way"series have continuously hit the best-selling list of literature books in every well-known book city, and been recognized and loved by the readers with its sales volume stably retaining the first place of inland cartoon books. With her fresh and warm drawing style, appealing colors, and mild and sorrowful words, Jidi is honored as "emotional color magician" and cartoonist producing cartoon books warming people’s hearts. In June, 2002, Jidi, a student of department of painting in Southwest Institute for Nationalities (the predecessor of Southwest University for Nationalities), began to serialize the cartoon book, My Way, on Xinlei•STORY 100, and its gorgeous colors and delicate feelings attracted the attention of readers at once. In October, 2004, with extremely high popularity, the offprint of My Way was published. And by virtue of her fresh and warm drawing style, appealing colors, and mild and sorrowful words, it received a high opinion from readers.

My Way 1 by Jidi

Works

YearWorks
2004< MY WAY 1> - My Way
2005< MY WAY 2> -Time Ocean
2006< MY WAY 3> - Blue cookie
2007< MY WAY 4> - Spring scenery
2008Novel <Tiptoe around time>
2009< MY WAY 5> - If free
2009The individual selected class <JIDI>
2010short draw episode <Flying Cat>
2010<Tiptoe around time 1>
2011<Tiptoe around time 2>
2012<Tiptoe around time 3>
2013<Tiptoe around time 4>

My Way

In this book, the audiences can see a lot of short stories. The main character is ‘V’. He is on the trip that nobody know where he wants to go. During his journey, he has met a number of lonely people who has a story in the deep of the heart, including happy thing and sorrow. Maybe V, and everyone, is looking for a way which is given into blessedness. V travels to different places, meets different people, and sees sadness and happiness along his trip.[2]

Tiptoe around time

The story is about a high school girl who just starts to step to adult world of confusion and her exquisite inner world. Here is Xiaolu Li’s castle and garden. She grown up in a single- parent family, looks be like very funny, often indulged in her fantasy world, but inside herself is very sensitive.

References

  1. Jidi with Elephant museum (n.d) Overview
  2. Douban(n.d),My way Retrieved date 07/01/2014.


Douban(n.d),<Jidi> by Jidi Retrieved from http://book.douban.com/subject/4225582/

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