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Last Sunday heralded the third Original Indie Comic Con in HK (第三屆原創誌交流展). Hosted on the eighth floor of a co-working space in an industrial part of Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, the one-day convention was small but bustling, and showed off an often-overlooked side of Hong Kong, where the comics scene has long been derided as being in…
In A Borrowed Life, esteemed Taiwanese writer-director Wu Nien-jen pays tribute to his working-class father by telling the latter’s life story. His story was made into an award-winning movie way back in 1994 (also called A Borrowed Life), and now it has been retold in comic form. The graphic novel has a grand, sweeping, filmic quality…
Continue readingA Borrowed Life: a superb comic memoir of a flawed Taiwanese patriarch
In case you missed it, Robin Peckham has a great piece over on World Wide Pop regarding the historic Guan Gong Fights the Aliens (1976) film. A Taiwanese production filmed in Hong Kong during the 1970s, the movie is part Japanese Godzilla film and part cheesy Chinese myth.
Incidentally, I also ran into the film at…
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Ending today. Hong Kong’s annual art fair featuring works from galleries from all over (with Asian galleries dominating). Well attended by locals passing by, visitors flying in and from early reports, also by prominent buyers and sellers.
Above: A local favorite that blends traditional Chinese landscape painting with modern Hong Kong skyscrapers. I wonder if people unfamiliar with…
The lines blur whether the Legend of Sword and Fairy (仙劍奇俠傳) is more a Chinese soap opera or a roleplaying game. The Legend of Sword and Fairy (LOSF) exists in both forms, as a PC roleplaying game and as a Chinese soap opera. Fans also treat the two similarly; they’ve…
Continue readingReview: The Legend of Sword and Fairy