Li Chung Ping (李崇萍), who writes under the pseudonym Nicky Lee, is a popular Taiwanese
manhua
() are Chinese-language comics produced in China and Taiwan. Whilst Chinese comics and narrated illustrations have existed in China in some shape or form throughout its imperial history, the term first appeared in 1904 in a comic titled ''Cu ...
author. She writes primarily for the teenage girl market, specializing in comedy, drama and romance.
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Lee works as one of the main staff artists for Taiwan's Tong Li Comics
Tongli Publishing Co. (Chinese: 東立出版社, Hanyu Pinyin: ''Dōng Lì Chūbǎnshè''), most known as Tong Li Comics, is a publishing company which distributes a variety of domestic and imported comics in Taiwan.
History
Tong Li was founded ...
.
Career
Lee began her career in the year 1992 when she submitted a story to Tong Li's monthly manhua magazine ''Flower Girl''. The story became her first work, ''Paradise City'' and began Lee's long career working with Tong Li. Her second work, ''Youth Gone Wild
"Youth Gone Wild" is the debut single from American heavy metal band Skid Row's debut album, released in January 1989.
Background
The song's music video received heavy airplay on MTV; however, as a single it only reached #99 on the US ''Bil ...
'', which started its five-year run in 1996, was her longest and most popular work. So far four works have been published in the magazine, one of which is ongoing.
Nicky Lee's personal life is not well documented aside from small notes that she writes in the margins of her published works and a few interviews. She is married, without children and credits her mother as her main influence. She is a fan of 1980s American heavy metal music
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and cites Fuyumi Souryo (Mars
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) and Shimizu Reiko as her role models.
Works
* ''Paradise City'' (1993): 4 Volumes
* ''Youth Gone Wild'' (1996): 14 Volumes
* ''Provence'' (2004): 2 Volumes
* ''The One'' (2005): 17 Volumes
* ''Love Sing'' (2014): 1 Volumes Ongoing
References
Taiwanese comics writers
Taiwanese comics artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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