Larry Feign

Larry Feign (born December 5, 1955) is an American cartoonist and writer based in Hong Kong. Feign is best known for his comic strip '' The World of Lily Wong''.

Education and early career

Feign is from Buffalo, New York.

He attended the University of California, Berkeley and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, graduating with a B.A. in 1979, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon in 2012.

His earliest comic-strip character was known as "Hoiman the Mouse", which he created as the mascot for ''Dum'', a mimeographed magazine produced a few times per year with several collaborators in primary school. Later he co-created a strip called "Billy Wizard", which began as a collaboration in high school with Jon Tschirgi. Billy Wizard became the mascot of a bootleg vinyl record label, "Wizardo Rekords". He and Tschirgi also formed a rock band which released one LP record in 1976 under the name The B. Toff Band, and a 45 rpm single in 1978 under the name Billy Wizard.

Feign started cartooning professionally in 1980 in Honolulu, where he worked as a caricature artist in the International Marketplace. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles and worked for the animation studio DIC Productions as a storyboard artist for the "Heathcliff the Cat" animated television series.

Move to Hong Kong

In 1985, he moved to Hong Kong, where he created a feature called "Aieeyaaa!", a satirical Chinese-word-a-day single-panel cartoon, which ran daily in the '' Hongkong Standard'' for one year. He terminated the feature when he started producing '' The World of Lily Wong'' for the same newspaper. Feign, who speaks Cantonese, was described as more integrated into Hong Kong than many other expatriates by the ''New York Times''.

''The World of Lily Wong'' appeared in '' The Standard'' from November 1986 to December 1987; the ''South China Morning Post'' between January 1987 and May 1995; ''The Independent'' (UK) between March 1997 and June 1997 (to chronicle the final hundred days of British rule in Hong Kong); and the '' HK iMail'' from May 2000 until September 2001. In July 1997, Lily Wong appeared in a special Hong Kong handover edition of ''Time'' magazine, the first full-page cartoon editorial in the magazine's history. Lily Wong also appeared in syndication in Malaysia's ''New Straits Times'' from 1991 to 1998, and individually in numerous periodicals and books around the world. The strip gained considerable popularity - the ''New York Times'' described Feign as "the colony's premier political cartoonist" in 1990.

The abrupt cancellation of ''Lily Wong'' by the ''South China Morning Post'' in May 1995, following a series of cartoons deemed offensive to the Beijing leadership, garnered international attention as the most high-profile case of media self-censorship in the years preceding Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China. Letters to the editor written by then Democrat leader Martin Lee and others were never published.Kees Kuiken, "Larry Feign", ''Censorship: a World Encyclopedia.'' 2002. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Retrieved 2017-06-06 fro
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Later career

From 1998 to 2000 Feign lived in London, where he produced a weekly political comic strip for ''Time'' magazine's international editions, as well as a comic strip known as ''The Royals'', satirizing the antics of the British Royal Family. He also illustrated for ''The Economist'', ''Fortune'', and other publications.

Feign's work has received several awards, including Best Cartoonist from the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, three Human Rights Press Awards from Amnesty International, and others for his animation work. In 2011, Feign received a literature fellowship from the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Feign has also produced animation for Walt Disney Television and the Cartoon Network.

A novel by Feign based on the life of Zheng Yi Sao, ''The Flower Boat Girl'', was published in 2021.

Feign lives in Hong Kong. He is married to psychologist and author Dr. Cathy Tsang-Feign.

Books

* ''The Flower Boat Girl'' (2021) .
* ''A Politically Incorrect History of Hong Kong'' (2017) .
* ''Let's All Shut Up & Make Money! 20th Anniversary Edition'' (2017) .
* ''Aieeyaaa! Learn Chinese the Hard Way'' (2015) .
* ''Aieeyaaa! 2008 Cantonese version'' (2008) .
* ''Hongkongitis'' (2007) .
* ''Attack of the Diced Chicken'' (2003) .
* ''The Royals'' (2000)
* ''Let's All Shut Up And Make Money'' (1997) .
* ''Aieeyaaa! I'm Pregnant!'' (1996) .
* ''Banned in Hong Kong'' (1995) .
* ''Hong Kong Fairy Tales'' (1994) .
* ''Execute Yourself Tonite!'' (with Nury Vittachi) (1993) .
* ''How The Animals Do It'' (1992) .
* ''Postcards from Lily Wong'' (1990) .
* ''The Adventures of Superlily'' (1989) .
* ''Quotations From Lily Wong'' (1989) .
* ''The World of Lily Wong'' (1988) .
* ''Aieeyaaa! Not Again!'' (1987) .
* ''Aieeyaaa!'' (1986) .

References

External links

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American comic strip cartoonists
Goddard College alumni
Hong Kong cartoonists
Hong Kong writers
Living people
1955 births
American storyboard artists
University of California, Berkeley alumni