AS TENDER AS THUNDER

AS BRIERY AS FUR

Ray He (雷) is an illustrator and comic artist from Taipei, Taiwan.

Wandering between the inner and outer worlds, she carries an innate longing for the distant. Her works explore the relationship between humans and landscapes, tracing fragmentary impressions of her surroundings and shaping them into what she calls an "inner landscape"—a private terrain formed within consciousness.

She was selected by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture for a residency at Maison de la BD in Blois (2021–2022) and later joined a cross-disciplinary program in Fujiyoshida, Japan (2023). Her comics have been shortlisted for the Golden Comic Awards and the Tottori International Manga Competition, and exhibited at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the Tottori Manga Kingdom showcase, and illustration fairs across Taiwan. To date, she has published three major comic works and several independent zines.

• Education

2018 The University of Edinburgh, Illustration MA

2017 National Taiwan University of Arts, Motion Pictures BFA

• A-I-R

2023 Art Residency at SARUYA, Fujiyoshida, Japan

2021-2022 Art Residency at Maison de la BD, Blois, France

• Publications

2025 Webcomic Moonlit (Indie-published online)

2023 Graphic Novel Once Twice Deities II (Indie-published)

2022 Graphic Novel Once Twice Deities (Indie-published)

2022 Graphic Novel Syzygy (Published by Gaea Books Co., ISBN: 9789863196464)

2019 Webcomic Intertidal (Indie-published online)
- Finalists of 11th Taiwan Golden Comic Awards

• Selected Exhibitions

2023 Iki-iki, Fab Cafe Fuji, Yamanashi, Japan

2022 Taipei Illustration Fair, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 ANIMA, uitshinn, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 Original Manuscripts of “Syzygy”, Basis Books, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 Angoulême International Comics Festival, Angoulême, France

2021 BD BOUM Festival, Blois, France 

2020 A Stroll Through the City, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2019 Hiii Illustration International Festival, Nanjing, China

2019 Caress, Jia Cafe, Taipei, Taiwan

• Awards

2024 12th Annual Manga Kingdom Tottori International Comic Art Contest, Selected for Inclusion in the Official Anthology (Japan)