Larry Feign

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Larry Feign (born December 5, 1955), an American-born cartoonist, is best known for his comic strip The World of Lily Wong. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont graduating with a B.A. in 1979. His earliest continuing comic-strip character was known as "Billy Wizard," which began as as a collaboration in high school with Jon Tschirgi, and which he continued alone throughout college. Billy Wizard was also the mascot of a bootleg vinyl record label, "Wizardo Rekords".

The World of Lily Wong ran from 1986 until 2001, and was briefly resumed from October 2007 to March of 2008. During its early years it appeared in several newspapers including the Hongkong Standard and the South China Morning Post between November 1986 and May 1995; The Independent between March 1997 and June 1997 (to track the handover of power); and the HK iMail from May 2000 until September 2001.

In addition to Lily Wong, Feign had a comic strip in the UK known as "The Royals", which satirized the antics of the British Royal Family. Feign's cartoons have appeared in many publications around the world and received several international awards.[1][2]

Feign's cartoons and other writings have been compiled into 15 books. He also produces animation and writes for various magazines in Hong Kong, where he lives with his wife and two children. His latest book, a collection of humorous essays titled Hongkongitis, was published in 2007.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rey Chow, "Larry Feign, Ethnographer of a 'Lifestyle': Political Cartoons from Hong Kong", boundary 2, Vol. 24, No. 2. (Summer, 1997), p. 44
  2. ^ Witty World International Who is Who in Cartooning, retrieved 8/7/07

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