Wendy Siuyi Wong

What makes comics from Hong Kong unique? The author draws on a wide variety of examples, from political and satirical cartoons to violent cartoons and children's comics with their Japanese and Disney influences. 1,000 illustrations.

Hong Kong Comics

John A. Lent

Benjamin Wai–ming Ng

This book explores various aspects of transnationalism and comics art in six East Asian and seven Southeast Asian countries/territories. The 14 richly illustrated chapters embrace comics, cartoons, and animation relative to offshore production, transnational ownership, multinational collaboration, border crossings of comics art creators and characters, expansion of overseas markets, cartoonists in political exile, colonial underpinnings, adaptation of foreign styles and formats, representation of other cultures, and more. Using case studies, historical accounts, descriptive overviews, individual artists’ profiles, and representational analyses, and fascinatingly told through techniques as document use, interviews, observation, and textual analyses, the end result is a thorough, interesting, and compact volume on transnationalism and comics art in East and Southeast Asia.

Wendy Siuyi Wong

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