Feng Zikai (1898 - 1975, China)

After graduating from college, Feng Zikai studied music and art in Japan before returning to China in 1922 to teach in East China'sShanghaiMunicipality. Later he worked as an editor at the Kaiming Press. It was at this time that his paintings and cartoons began to be published. Feng Zikai was considered the founder of modern cartoons in China after his Zi Kai Man Hua was published in 1924.

Hu Sheng Hua Ji was created between 1927 and 1973, during his fifty-year-long career as an artist. Long after his death in 1975, Feng's essays and cartoons are still popular with the Chinese public.

Liao Bingxiong

Liao Bing-xiong was born in the city ofGuangzhouin South China'sGuangdong Provincein 1915. Before he started drawing comics, he worked as a teacher and art director. He drew antiwar illustrations during World War II, after which he joined a comics artists organization in Hong Kong. In the early 1950s he returned to the mainland, where he drew many children's comics, such as "Fairy Tale Comics" for the magazine Little Friend Bimonthly.