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| Ma Wing-shing | |
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 Ma Wing-shing, is a comics creator | |
| Born | Ma Wing-shing (馬榮城) 16 January 1961 Hong Kong |
| Nationality | Hong Konger |
| Area(s) | Writer, Artist, Publisher |
Notable works | Fung Wan Chinese Hero |
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| Traditional Chinese | 馬榮成 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马荣成 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 馬榮城 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马荣城 | ||||||||||
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Ma Wing-shing (born 16 January 1961) is a Hong Kong manhua artist,writer and publisher. He is best known for creating the Fung Wan and Chinese Hero series.
Ma quit his studies and became a comic artist in 1976 at the age of 15. He started his career in Hei Po,where he published his first series,Day Dream. His other works included Winds and Clouds in Public Housing,Wily Little One,Little Tough Guy,Great Dictator,Lau-keung the Contractor,The Invisible Weird Guest and Wonder Dog.
In 1977,Hei Po was closed and Ma joined Golden Comics,where he began employing realism in his works,such as The Five Brothers,which caught the attention of others in the industry. He also published The Battle:Before and After in Hong Kong Comic Weekly .
The following year,Ma attended a one-year course at the Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts to improve his drawing skills. He quit Golden Comics and joined Ching Po,where he produced numerous works,including:Evil Experiment,Assault 13,Alien,I Wanna be Woman,Small Luk's Fight at Wudang and the Eve of the Battle,Martial House,Sword and Spear,Destroyer,My Pursuit,Great Stealer 13,Knowing You,Mad Dog,Security Guard,Story of Big-Nose Boy,Hillfire,and Five Affairs.
Veteran Cop and New Drunken Fist were published in 1980 when Ma was working in New Waves. In August,he joined Jademan and began publishing Chinese Hero in Golden Daily .
In 1981,he furthered his studies in fine arts at Des Montagnes Studio and incorporated his newly acquired knowledge into his works. In November,he co-authored Tong Lung with Fung Chi-ming,and this comic succeeded in entering the Japanese market.
In 1982,the Chinese Hero periodical was published and proved to be an immediate great success,laying a solid foundation for Ma's career.
In 1987,Ma co-organized a painting exhibition,Footsteps,with teachers and students of Des Montages Studio.
In 1989,Ma founded the company Jonesky and released his The Two Extremes and held his personal art exhibition.
In Ma's career,his drawings were heavily influenced by the works of Ryoichi Ikegami for his realistic style and attention to details. He usually employs painterly techniques. The artwork and drawing style of Chinese Hero is responsible for the modern day characteristics of manhua.
Alfonso Wong Kar-hei,also known by his pen name Wong Chak,was a Hong Kong manhua artist who created one of the longest-running comic strips,Old Master Q,that became popular across Asia.
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 manhua first appeared in 1904 in a comic titled Current Affairs Comics in the Shanghai-based newspaper Jingzhong Daily .. Comapred to Korean Manhwa,Manhua are heavily influenced by Japanese Manga.
Fung Wan or Feng Yun is a Hong Kong wuxia manhua series. It is the first manhua released by Ma Wing-shing in 1989 with the help of his assistant Siu Kit under his own company,Jonesky Publishing. Before the third part,the manhua was originally titled Fung Wan,until the two protagonists –Wind and Cloud –became secondary characters and the manhua was renamed Tin Ha. The story has been adapted into media,most notably the Hong Kong films The Storm Riders (1998) and The Storm Warriors (2009),the video game Fung Wan Online,and the Taiwanese television series Wind and Cloud (2002) and Wind and Cloud II (2004).
Don't Fool Me is a 1991 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Herman Yau starring Andy Lau,Tony Leung,Teresa Mo and Fennie Yuen.
Oriental Heroes is a popular Hong Kong-based manhua created by Tony Wong Yuk-long,a writer/artist responsible for also creating a number of other popular manhua titles. It was created in 1970,and it continues to be published today. The book was the first Hong Kong manhua title based on action and fighting,often borrowing from the wuxia literary world. It established a new action genre of Hong Kong manhua and spawned many imitators. The theme of its stories often revolves around brotherhood and the fight for justice.
Storm Rider Clash of the Evils is a Chinese animated feature film directed by Dante Lam and produced by Puzzle Animation Studio Limited and Shanghai Media Group. It is based on the manhua series Fung Wan by Ma Wing-shing.
Chinese Hero:Tales of the Blood Sword is a wuxia manhua series created by Hong Kong artist Ma Wing-shing. It is also referred to as Blood Sword,Blood Sword Dynasty,A Chinese Hero:Tales of the Blood Sword, and A Man Called Hero.
Shenwuji is a spin-off manhua based on Fung Wan also by Ma Wing Shing. It ran for 40 issues.
Hong Kong comics,i.e. comics originating in Hong Kong,have a rich history,starting with their use as anti-Qing propaganda during the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911. However,all comic activities stopped when the Japanese occupied Hong Kong in 1941 and only resumed after World War II. The rise of Chinese immigration and the baby boom in the 1950s and 1960s turned Hong Kong into the main market for manhua. The arrival of television in the 1970s and the popularity of Bruce Lee's films triggered a wave of Kung Fu comics. Due to explicit violence in these comics,the Hong Kong government intervened with the Indecent Publication Law in 1975. The comic industry blossomed in the 1990s with work like McMug and three-part stories such as "Teddy Boy","Portland Street",and "Red Light District".
Articles related to Hong Kong include:
Jonesky Limited (天下出版有限公司) is a Hong Kong publisher of domestic Chinese manhua and translated,imported comics from Japan. Several of their titles have been translated and released in English. It was founded in 1989 by comics creator Ma Wing Shing,who remains its CEO,and in recent years its products have branched out to include collectible merchandise from its series and Comics Fans,a magazine aimed at girls.
The Storm Warriors is a 2009 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy film produced and directed by the Pang brothers. It is the second live-action film adaptation of artist Ma Wing-shing's manhua series Fung Wan,following the 1998 film The Storm Riders. The Storm Warriors is based on Fung Wan's Japanese Invasion story arc The Death Battle. Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok respectively reprise their roles as Wind and Cloud,who this time find themselves up against Lord Godless,a ruthless Japanese warlord bent on invading China. The film is a co-production between Universe Entertainment and Sil-Metropole Organisation.
Tin Hau temples in Hong Kong are dedicated to Tin Hau (Mazu). Over 100 temples are dedicated to Tin Hau in Hong Kong. A list of these temples can be found below.
Wind and Cloud,also known as Fung Wan and The Storm Riders,is a Taiwanese television series based on Hong Kong artist Ma Wing-shing's manhua series Fung Wan. Vincent Zhao and Peter Ho starred as the titular protagonists. The series was first broadcast on CTV in Taiwan in 2002,and was followed by Wind and Cloud 2 in 2004.
Fung Wan or The Storm Riders or Wind and Cloud may refer to
The Duke of Mount Deer is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Deer and the Cauldron. It was first aired on TVB in Hong Kong in 1998.
Wind and Cloud 2 is a Taiwanese television series based on Hong Kong artist Ma Wing-shing's manhua series Fung Wan. The series was first broadcast on CTV in Taiwan in 2004. Even though the series is marketed as a sequel to Wind and Cloud (2002),it was produced by a different company and is loosely connected to Wind and Cloud. Vincent Zhao and Peter Ho reprised their roles as the titular characters from the first series.
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