Chan Mou

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Chan Mou (陳某) was born in March 1st, 1970 in Hong Kong. His first comic ever self-written and self-produced Unhuman (《不是人》), based on the Three Kingdoms period and released in 1996, had won him numerous awards and recognitions.

His pen name Chan Mou, which means just an ordinary person with a last name of Chan, reveals his modesty and determination setting him apart from the mainstream. Before his comic career, he was a graphic designer in the commercial advertising industry.

In the first volume of The Ravages of Time, he described his lack of interest in the current popular comic market. However his own passion toward this action pictures had motivated him to create his own comic.

As a child, Chan was into sci-fi, cartoon, and Ultraman. He was majoring in visual art in a university. After his graduation, he got a job working as a graphic designer in the advertising field. He had experience with print ads in TV and newspaper and been involved with the top management.

Simply assigning works to his subordinates couldn’t satisfy his ambition, and eventually aroused him to create his first independent work Unhuman and applied to competitions.

Most of the topics he uses in his works are history related with fables and fairy tales. A reporter once asked Chan about history versus fable, he answered that the true history does not exist. He believes that history is artificial, written by whoever conquers the country. As such, gathering all the fables and novels with history books might exceeds the credibility of official history books.