Speakers’ Profile

曾耀慶 Yao-Ching TSENG

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Yao-Ching Tseng was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1989, and is a graduate of National Taiwan Normal University. He started drawing and writing comic books since 2012. Always experimenting with new mediums, his works are characterised by freedom of expression, with shapes and figures attempting to transcend their function as a simple medium and become an integral part of the story. In 2013, Tseng awarded the Best New Talent from Taiwan Comic Base with his comic The Daughter of Comic. He was invited to France to showcase his works as participated artist at the Angouleme International Comics Festival in 2018 and Quai des Bulles Festival in Saint-Malo.

羅寗 Ning LO

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Coming from Hsinchu, LO is a freelancer for illustration and graphic design. In her spare time she enjoys walking around the streets. In 2017, she participated in Hong Kong Comics Festival and the Taipei Illustration Fair in 2018.

The main inspiration of her works comes from the life where we live. She like to observe the details around her, and try putting the elements and scenery in works to give the story. It has been a way to know herself and the world by creating. And also expecting that more people can enjoy life and feel the connection of our land through her works.

李瑋恩 Weien LEE 
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Born and raised in Taipei, graduated from the Product Design at Ming Chuan University in Taiwan and the Master of Illustrator of the University of Creative Arts in the UK.

Weien uses beautiful and sometimes decorative imagery to communicate darker and sinister narratives, subverting our expectations and stereotypes of contemporary society. She is interested in using sequential imagery to tell stories about contemporary society. Her narrative themes focus on social issues, in particular inequality in society. Her narratives highlight cultural inequalities both in eastern and western societies.

The meaning of artistic creation for Weien is she could found recognition from herself and others through the works she made. She hopes that if she could be a successful artist, other children who also have the fond of arts could have a more comfortable path to the art career in Taiwan.

麥人杰 RICHARD METSON

Born in 1964, Sagittarius. His creation spans comics, animation, movies, video games, and fashion etc. During 1983, he worked as animator and comics artist, and published Wizard and Brat, The Black Book, 0-Generation, etc. In 1998, he participated in the production of Taiwanese animated feature film Grandma and Her Ghosts, as the anime director. The film was critically-acclaimed in Canada and the US, including Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Philadelphia and other international film festivals, taking Taiwan’s production to a whole new level. In 2003, he assembled the sex comedy comics works on PLAYBOY (Chinese version) and published Sex-files. The authorised French and English versions of the book are available, making a name for himself in the international market! Currently, he is working on the animated film Iron Boy.

麥少峯 Siu-fung MAK

Siu-fung Mak started as a comics assistant, has been working in the creative fields of comics, illustration, and sculpture since 1991. In 1993, he travelled to Japan to study traditional hand-drawn animation. He returned to Hong Kong in 1996, working as a newspaper layout artist until he left the company in 2002. In the same year, he started a brand called United Planet, which specialised in 3-D figurine production and comics creation. In 2006, he published his solo comics collection, The Coffee Maker. 

Mak started to create his hand-drawn animation, Back to Base in 2007, and with this work, he won the Gold Award in the Animation Category at the Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia (ifva) in 2011. Since then, Mak has devoted more of his energies to animation production. In 2014, he produced his second hand-drawn animation Disposition, with which he won, again, the Gold Award in the Animation Category at ifva in 2015, as well as the Regional Prize (Hong Kong) at the DigiCon6 ASIA Awards. In 2017, he released Cross Blade Kill. His Infidelity, produced in 2018, was shortlisted for the Best Animated Short Film Award at Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.  Mak has adapted his comics into animations, working by his own efforts during the production process. In January 2019, he recreated his early works, published a collection of ghost stories Ashes to Ashes Not.