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Article: Coco Wang - Comics Made in China
Posted: May 29, 2014
Based between Beijing, Hong Kong and London, Coco Wang thrives as an extraordinary fusion of Chinese and British cultures and as a bridge between the two. Having received a thoroughly British education, starting at Queen Ethelburga’s College in North Yorkshire, Wang translated her experiences into a ‘TuWen’ or autobiographical diary-style comic, Coco Goes to Study in England, published in both China and Hong Kong. For the 2008 exhibition Manhua! China Comics Now in London, part of Britain’s China Now festival ahead of the Bejing Olympics and the first of its kind in the country, Wang was an ambassador for her upcoming generation of experimental, underground Chinese comics creators, several in collectives like Special Comics and Cult Youth. She also edited, translated, published and contributed to an impressive anthology of these cutting-edge innovators’ stories entitled Freedom. Some of her most deeply moving and widely seen work was a series of documentary webcomics telling the under-reported human stories of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake (more of these are still online at this website). Wang’s talents have crossed over into a variety of fields, from assisting theatre director and writer Robert Wilson on his musical production The Black Rider at the Barbican to developing acclaimed projects in animation and children’s books. Read my new Article and Coco Wang’s brand-new two-page Comic here…
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