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Otto Fong Yong Chin (born 1968) is a Singaporean comic artist, playwright and teacher.
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Otto Fong Yong Chin (born 1968) is a Singaporean comic artist, playwright and teacher.
Fong was born in Johor Bahru in 1968. [1] His father was trade unionist Fong Swee Suan and his mother is former trade unionist Chen Poh Cheng. He has a brother and a sister. [2] He studied at The Chinese High School and later Hwa Chong Junior College. [3] He studied engineering at the Oklahoma State University in the United States and took up a two-year diploma course in film directing at the Beijing Film Academy in 1994. [4]
He wrote several plays, including We Are Family, Cetacea , Another Tribe, [4] and HERStory . [5]
He returned to Singapore after studying in Beijing in 1997 and worked as a video editor and graphics artist for a year. His first comic book, Buddy Buddy, was published by the China Friendship Publishing Company in 1998. In 1999, he became a science teacher at Raffles Institution. He wrote a musical, Mr. Beng , which was staged at the Singapore Arts Festival in 1999. His second comic book, Sir Fong , was published in 2005. [6] The book was positively reviewed by Prudencio Miel of The Straits Times . [7] The second installment in the Sir Fong series, Sir Fong 2: Fur-o-cious, was published in 2007, and was again positively reviewed by Miel. [8] He left Raffles Institution at the end of 2007. [9] He has also created the TV series Totally Totto. [3] The third installment in the series, Sir Fong's Adventures In Science, was published in 2008. [10] The sixth installment in the series, Sir Fong's Adventures In Science Book 6: Synthetic Biology, was published in 2017. [11]
He currently teaches in an international school in Thailand. [3]
Fong is openly gay and lives with his partner. [3] He came out as gay in a 2,000 word-blog entry, and was asked by the government to take down the entry as the blog was also read by students. In a speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong used Fong's case to state that "Singapore should strive to maintain a balance, to uphold a stable society with traditional heterosexual family values, but with space for homosexuals to live their lives and to contribute to society." [12]
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