Banana Trap

This comic zine project is inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1961 novella No One Writes To The Colonel.
The comic presents and reveals a deadly trap and a period of history of banana colonization in Columbia. García Márquez mentioned the ‘banana fever’ in many of his novels. It is a metaphor to imply the shocking historical tragedy behind the novel, which is a massacre of banana workers. I make this comic into a concertina-style for the readers to more easily follow the flow of the narrative.





Zhenyi Zheng



I am a Chinese UK-based Illustrator,
visual designer and self-publisher.

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Email: zhenyizheng1228@gmail.com
Instagram:@zhenyiii_zheng

2020-2023
Illustrations
Home Phrases
Urban Mundane in Netherlands
Canal Dreamer
Home Wander
Cost of Living-visual minutes
Period
Mid-Autumn
Summer Ilusion
Valentines
In the Forest


Children’s Books
Where is the Kitchen God找找灶王爷

Wolf Grandma 狼外婆

Comics
Banana Trap
Summer Maze
Disorder

Visual Design
Canal Dreamer
Through the Window

Zines
Banana Trap
Mundane Days Along the River
Conversation with a Stone

2017-2019
Disorder
Parents
Trouble