“I don’t think the comic book industry did anything wrong to cause the sharp decline in sales,” says Connie Lam Suk-yee, executive director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre and influential supporter of Hong Kong comics. “I think it’s because teenagers today have many more things to do with the internet and other things.”
But Lam reckons a new multimedia approach, with products such as the new
iPhone app along with animation, e-books and merchandise, is crucial for a revival of the
comics scene.
Local comics are rooted in the mainland cartoon boom of the 1920s, when famous (and politically driven) artists such as Lu Xun and Feng Zikai came to prominence. But it wasn’t until after the second world war that the Hong Kong comic strip (called manhua in Cantonese), began to grow.
“With everything damaged, cartoon strips in the newspapers were one of the quickest things to re-appear as a sign of normality,” says Wendy Wong Siu-yi, an arts professor at York University in Canada and author of the 2002 book
Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua.
The newspaper strips were what drew Tony Wong to the industry.
“I migrated here with my family
But Lam reckons a new multimedia approach, with products such as the new
iPhone app along with animation, e-books and merchandise, is crucial for a revival of the
comics scene.
Local comics are rooted in the mainland cartoon boom of the 1920s, when famous (and politically driven) artists such as Lu Xun and Feng Zikai came to prominence. But it wasn’t until after the second world war that the Hong Kong comic strip (called manhua in Cantonese), began to grow.
“With everything damaged, cartoon strips in the newspapers were one of the quickest things to re-appear as a sign of normality,” says Wendy Wong Siu-yi, an arts professor at York University in Canada and author of the 2002 book
Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua.
The newspaper strips were what drew Tony Wong to the industry.
“I migrated here with my family
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