Moby-Dick (Limited Edition)

About the Illustrator

Mu Pan is a Chinese American artist who was brought up in Taiwan and later moved to the United States, where he studied for BFA and MFA degrees in illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. His work – often violent and darkly humorous, featuring battle scenes and half-animal, half-human characters engaged in combat – is deeply influenced by martial-arts movies and Hong Kong cinema, as well as Chinese literary classics such as Monkey or Journey to the West and the works of Jin Yong. He has exhibited widely across Europe, the United States and Hong Kong, and the first monograph dedicated to his paintings – American Fried Rice: The Art of Mu Pan – was published in 2020. For Folio he illustrated Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey (1942; Folio 2023) and Melville's Moby-Dick (1851; Folio 2026).

About the Illustrator

Mu Pan is a Chinese American artist who was brought up in Taiwan and later moved to the United States, where he studied for BFA and MFA degrees in illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. His work – often violent and darkly humorous, featuring battle scenes and half-animal, half-human characters engaged in combat – is deeply influenced by martial-arts movies and Hong Kong cinema, as well as Chinese literary classics such as Monkey or Journey to the West and the works of Jin Yong. He has exhibited widely across Europe, the United States and Hong Kong, and the first monograph dedicated to his paintings – American Fried Rice: The Art of Mu Pan – was published in 2020. For Folio he illustrated Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey (1942; Folio 2023) and Melville's Moby-Dick (1851; Folio 2026).

About the Illustrator

Mu Pan is a Chinese American artist who was brought up in Taiwan and later moved to the United States, where he studied for BFA and MFA degrees in illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. His work – often violent and darkly humorous, featuring battle scenes and half-animal, half-human characters engaged in combat – is deeply influenced by martial-arts movies and Hong Kong cinema, as well as Chinese literary classics such as Monkey or Journey to the West and the works of Jin Yong. He has exhibited widely across Europe, the United States and Hong Kong, and the first monograph dedicated to his paintings – American Fried Rice: The Art of Mu Pan – was published in 2020. For Folio he illustrated Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey (1942; Folio 2023) and Melville's Moby-Dick (1851; Folio 2026).

About the Illustrator

Mu Pan is a Chinese American artist who was brought up in Taiwan and later moved to the United States, where he studied for BFA and MFA degrees in illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. His work – often violent and darkly humorous, featuring battle scenes and half-animal, half-human characters engaged in combat – is deeply influenced by martial-arts movies and Hong Kong cinema, as well as Chinese literary classics such as Monkey or Journey to the West and the works of Jin Yong. He has exhibited widely across Europe, the United States and Hong Kong, and the first monograph dedicated to his paintings – American Fried Rice: The Art of Mu Pan – was published in 2020. For Folio he illustrated Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey (1942; Folio 2023) and Melville's Moby-Dick (1851; Folio 2026).

About the Illustrator

Mu Pan is a Chinese American artist who was brought up in Taiwan and later moved to the United States, where he studied for BFA and MFA degrees in illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. His work – often violent and darkly humorous, featuring battle scenes and half-animal, half-human characters engaged in combat – is deeply influenced by martial-arts movies and Hong Kong cinema, as well as Chinese literary classics such as Monkey or Journey to the West and the works of Jin Yong. He has exhibited widely across Europe, the United States and Hong Kong, and the first monograph dedicated to his paintings – American Fried Rice: The Art of Mu Pan – was published in 2020. For Folio he illustrated Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey (1942; Folio 2023) and Melville's Moby-Dick (1851; Folio 2026).