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Zen Pencils is an online showcase of cartoonist Gavin Aung Than's comic strips, that were illustrations that took famous quotes and making a visual style to create a story, showed along with the quotes. Zen pencils focuses on adding to renown quotes to be developed into visual metaphors to make insightful comics for the public. The site was first launched in February 2012 and is based in Melbourne, NSW Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About )〕 == History == Zen Pencils was launched in 2012, by Gavin Aung Than, a professional graphic designer and a freelance cartoonist based in Melbourne, Australia. Producing comic strips for The Sunday Times, Herald Sun, mX Newspaper and Daily Telegraph, his most famous being ‘Dan and Pete’ (A comedic superhero comic strip that told the adventures of Dan “The world’s greatest superhero” and his best friend Pete. The comic was acombination of Aung Than’s enjoyment of Superhero comics, cartoons, scifi, animated films, etc.) and ‘Boys will be boys’ (A comedic dating and relationship comic strips for the older audience, surrounding the “various dating adventures” of two brothers, Pete and Teddy and the subjects of sex, love, films and current events.) During his spare time, Aung Than would look up and read biographies of famous people, their stories, unique point of views and quotes, that lead him to create the blog Zen Pencils. After 8 years, in 2011, Aung Than resigned from his previous job to work on freelancing full time and to focus on his passion of cartooning. During this time, the constant supply of passages and statements from renowned artists, poets, comedians, world leaders and religious representatives had lead Aung Than to create the showcase blog. “ The idea of taking these inspiring quotes, combining them with my love of drawing and sharing them with others led to the creation of Zen Pencils. ”〔 As of 2015, Zen Pencils has been renown across the world, and seen as successful work leading to Aung Than being given interviews from new blog such as The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Kotaku, etc. Aung Than has attended and given speeches at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit and San Diego Comic Con. As of 2014, the published, official Zen Pencils book containing the collection of the optimum comics posted on the site, on paper back had a book signing tour in Australia and has become New York Times best seller #7. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zen Pencils」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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