Curated by: Hong Kong Arts Centre (Comix Home Base)
Hong Kong Arts Centre (Comix Home Base) has long been committed to championing local creativity, helping original Hong Kong comic and illustration IPs reach wider audiences through cross-sector collaborations. This time, we have partnered with local brand THE HOOD to present a special collection created in collaboration with five outstanding local comic artists and illustrators. Blending original characters with unique artistic visions, the collection transforms everyday essentials into creative expressions, bringing art into daily life.
Collaborative Merchandise Lineup:
- GoldenSnap Case Magsafe + Back Panel | Features an interchangeable design to effortlessly complement your daily outfit and mood
- Magnetic Power Bank | Seamlessly combines aesthetics with practical functionality
- AirPods Golden Case | Dresses up your earphone case with original artwork
FIVE ARTISTS, FIVE UNIQUE STYLES
- Chi-tak LI — heroess
Crossover products featuring Chi-tak Li’s latest comic, heroess. Building upon his work from three years ago, heroes, it unfolds a brand-new narrative within the same spatio-temporal backdrop. Through the journey of a new protagonist, it depicts a world where fate and choices intertwine. Chi-tak Li’s distinctive black-and-white linework creates an inimitable visual universe.
- WE ARE THE PIGS — Stories of Hong Kong Yokai: Vampire Tales
Taking local folk yokai legends as its creative subject, the latest work features 70 pages of exquisitely hand-drawn original comics. Local yokai characters—such as little vampires, spirit boards, and freakish babies —unveil legendary tales of Hong Kong vampires.
- Jerry CHO ✕ Jacky CAI — The Life After Life
Meeboo, an otherworldly elf born within the comic narrative, symbolises the courageous, fearless, loving, and trusting inner child residing in every adult, keeping readers company as they freely explore every journey in life.
- ISATISSE — The Eye Bag Girl
Sporting signature dark eye circles, Abel, The Eye Bag Girl, actively seeks out small everyday happinesses even amidst busy and stressful city life. In Abel, you will always find a deep resonance and gather fresh inspiration.
- CHIYA — ROMO DOLDOL STUDIO
Modelled after Chiya’s own cats—older brother ROMO and younger sister DOLDOL—and featuring the cat-lover girl NIM, this work carries a gentle and delicate style, depicting subtle yet heartwarming emotions in daily life through its characters.
- Hong Kong Arts Centre Art Shop
- THE HOOD Online Store: https://thehoodproduction.com/zh/collections/hong-kong-arts-centre
Product Price List
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Product Name |
Specification / Model |
Price |
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GoldenSnap Case Magsafe |
Main Case + Back Panel |
HKD 398 each |
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Back Panel Only |
HKD 120 each |
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Magnetic Power Bank 10000mAh |
C1030 |
HKD 319 each |
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Qi2.2 |
HKD 419 each |
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AirPods Golden Case |
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HKD 208 each |
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About THE HOOD
THE HOOD is a tech accessory brand strives to merge style and functionality, bringing the enhanced experiences to consumers. We rooted in creating protective phone cases with premium materials and fashion-forward designs. Our goal is to deliver stylish, high quality products that suits individuals' style and protects the devices. Working with the world's artists and brands, we’re dedicated to bring tremendous designs of tech accessories.
About the Artists
- Chi-tak LI
Chi-tak Li began his career in the comics industry in 1982. He self-published Tong Men Shao Nian, a prominent title which rocketed him to fame in 1987. He has since developed a distinctive art style, creating his own visual world with eerily experimental works that broke genre rules. Li’s transmedia creations transcend the boundary of comics and expand into movies, experimental theatres, literature, pop music and sculptures. The poster that he created for Hong Kong (China) local sci-fi action movie Warriors of Future has been widely praised.
Li is also well-known in the international comics scene. His comics have been published in places like Japan, Taiwan (China), Malaysia, the Mainland, France, and Italy since the 1990s. In 2016, the Hong Kong Arts Centre jointly curated Li’s solo exhibition entitled 'Li Chi-tak, Hong Kong Wizard' with the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France. He is the first Hong Kong comics artist to hold a solo exhibition at this renowned comics festival. Later, he was invited to participate in the BD Louvre project, alongside publishing the comic book titled 'Moon of the Moon' (French and Chinese versions) in 2019 & 2020.
His recent publications include romance comics 'Yum Sui', comics that pay homage to Franz Kafka's literary classics 'Kafka', children's comics 'A Little Strawberry' (2022 & 2024 Reprint Edition), 'In the Path Artworks Collection Book', 'heroes', ‘heroess’, etc.
In 2022, Hong Kong Arts Centre awarded Honorary Fellowships to Li, recognising his invaluable contribution to the arts sector in Hong Kong and the Asian region.
Website: www.lichitak.com | Facebook: @Li Chi Tak 利志達 | Instagram: @li_chitak
- ISATISSE
Isabel Tong is a Hong Kong illustrator and the founder of ISATISSE, a creative practice shaped by her background in fashion and product design. Her work is known for its bold visual language, emotional warmth, and ability to turn everyday city life into humour, imagination, and moments of joy. Balancing artistic expression with commercial versatility, she creates illustrations that move naturally across editorial, branding, licensing, publications, and collaborative projects.
At the centre of her practice is The Eye Bag Girl Abel, a character she created in 2016 as a reflection of urban emotions, daydreaming, and the small absurdities of daily life. Through Abel and her friends, Isabel builds a playful visual world where stress, food, sleep, and ordinary observations become relatable stories with personality and charm. This character-driven approach gives her work a strong identity while allowing it to connect with audiences in a very direct and human way.
Isabel’s practice has received international recognition, including the Japan Illustration Award 2024 Bronze Award for Urban Diorama, the Excellent Illustrator Award 2023 from the Japanese Illustrator Association, the 3x3 International Illustration Show No. 21 Merit Award in the United States, and the White Ravens 2024 in Germany for her first picture book Be Yourself. She has also collaborated with a wide range of brands and cultural projects, demonstrating her ability to create original visuals that resonate across different markets and audiences.
Website: isatisse.com/zh | Facebook: @Isatissebyisabeltong | Instagram: @isatisse
- WE ARE THE PIGS
We Are The Pigs is a Hong Kong art unit whose first project, One Hundred Tales: Stories of Hong Kong Yokai, retells myths and ghost stories of the city through stickers, art toys, illustrated books, and film collaborations. The initiative explores over a century of Hong Kong’s cultural history and identity, presenting 100 yokai characters and their stories in a visually distinctive way. With an original illustration style and special printing effects, the series brings local supernatural folklore to life, while creating a collection that is engaging, fun to read, and deeply resonant with Hong Kong culture.
In recent years, the project has expanded into diverse forms of creative work, including illustrated book publications, cross-media collaborations with film, and commercial collaborations. It has gradually built a structured horror folklore universe, using the lightness of stickers to carry the weight of culture. Between collective memory and pop culture, the project pieces together a fantastical map that is unique to Hong Kong, while also extending its reach into broader visual and commercial contexts.
The series has received strong public attention as well as industry recognition, including the Illustrated Book Publishing Award at the Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards. It has also appeared on Eslite’s Hong Kong bestseller and top writer lists in both 2024 and 2025, reflecting its reach as both a cultural project and a widely read contemporary IP.
Website: wearethepigs.myshopify.com | Facebook: @wearewearethepigs | Instagram: @watplimited
- CHIYA
Chiya is a Hong Kong artist whose practice centres on children’s books, picture books, novels, and comics. Since 2009, she has worked full-time across these fields, developing a visual language that is soft, reassuring, and attentive to everyday feelings. Her drawings often focus on girls, children, and natural landscapes, and this gentle sensibility also shapes her original character world, ROMO DOLDOL STUDIO, built around NIM, ROMO, and DOLDOL.
Across her published works, Chiya moves fluently between storytelling and illustration. Her books include The One Who Speaks With Stars series, the fairy tale series Forest of the Fairy Tales, Heart of the Fairy Tales, and Music of the Fairy Tales, as well as The Girls Who Plant the Rainbows and illustration books such as Mint, Couleur, Magic Wardrobe, White Butterfly, and Bond (Kizuna). Together, these works show a practice that is consistent in tone yet broad in expression, allowing her visual world to expand across different formats and audiences.
Her work has received recognition through awards, including China’s 9th Golden Dragon Award for Best Illustration, the 7th and 12th International Manga Awards in Japan, and the HK Comics Support Programme Bronze Award. These honours reflect the strength of her drawing, her sensitivity to narrative, and the broad appeal of a practice that continues to grow through both published books and original character development.
Website: www.chiyako.org | Facebook: chiya0908 | Instagram: @chiyakoa
- Jerry CHO X Jacky CAI
Jerry Cho is a Hong Kong comic artist and storyteller with extensive experience across publishing, editing, and visual narrative. Over the years, he has worked with major Hong Kong comics publishers and served as chief editor for more than 300 comic volumes, including comic adaptations of Biohazard and Dead End, as well as projects such as 81 and The Life After Life. His 2022 novel Dead End was later adapted into the ViuTV television drama Rope a Dope, and his artwork has been shown in venues ranging from Hong Kong International Airport to the Water Supplies Department’s 100-metre mural wall and concert stage visuals.
Jacky Cai is an actress, screenwriter, author, and creative collaborator whose work extends beyond screen performance into writing and comics. With experience across film, television, and narrative development, she brings a different sensitivity to character and storytelling, helping shape Meeboo’s warmth and approachable charm. Together, Cho and Cai create a world that balances fantasy with emotional clarity, allowing the character to speak to audiences of different ages. Their work on The Life After Life has been recognised with the Bronze Award at the 19th Japan International MANGA Award and as one of the Top Ten Comics and Illustration Works at the 2nd Lingnan Water Town International Cartoon & Animation Week.
Website: jerrycho.com | Facebook: @JerryChoWorkshopLimited @jackykycai | Instagram: @jerrycho_chiho @jackykycai
Contact us
Facebook: hkacchb | HongKongArtsCentre
Instagram: @comixhomebase | @hongkongartscentre
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About Hong Kong Arts Centre
Hong Kong Arts Centre - Art for Passion, Art for Life, Art for All
Since 1977, the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) has been a platform for nurturing and supporting artists, and infusing art into everyday life. Its unique arts and educational programmes aim to make the arts accessible for all. The HKAC believes in the transformational power of art for people from all walks of life. Established for more than four decades, the HKAC endeavours to bring arts to the people of Hong Kong by presenting programmes in diverse art disciplines, such as visual arts, performing arts, moving images, media arts, comics, animation, arts education, lecture forum, public art, art festival and community art. With the vision of inspiring creativity in the local and international art community. With a vision of inspiring creativity in the local and international art community, HKAC focuses on four strategic areas: Leading Art Programmes, Nurturing Future Generations, Fostering Exceptional Art Education and Developing a Multi-Functional Building for Art in Wan Chai to create versatile exhibition spaces that accommodate a diversity of art forms and styles.
The HKAC aspires to engage everyone in the community to become an active participant in the arts - as an enthusiast, an artist or a patron. Let’s continue to embrace ‘Art for Passion, Art for Life, Art for All’, and share the inspiration.
Official website: hkac.org.hk | Facebook: Hong Kong Arts Centre | Instagram: @hongkongartscentre
About Comix Home Base
Comics and animation are important local pop culture and artistic creations. Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) has been dedicated to planning and organising diverse and unique activities to promote the arts and culture of comics and animation to the local community and abroad.
Since 2006, HKAC curated Comix Home Base project (CHB), and has been working closely with comics artists, animators, industry practitioners and various government departments to promote local works. Over 1,000 ani-com-related events are hosted, such as exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances, publications, screenings, public arts, etc.
In recent years, Comix Home Base has continued to proactively orchestrate cross-media collaborations and look for crossovers between comics and different media like public art, movie, dance, intangible cultural heritage, martial arts etc., expanding the creative space for comix. Outside Hong Kong, the footprints of Comix Home Base can be found overseas in France, Belgium, Britain, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Russia, Indonesia, Portugal, Türkiye, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria, etc. This has facilitated the involvement of numerous Hong Kong comics artists in international collaboration projects. Also, local comics have been successfully published in different foreign versions in European countries and the United States, increasing the international recognition of local comics and animation artists.
Comix Home Base is fully committed to creating a platform for the art of Hong Kong anime and comics to flourish and keep elevating comics that are 'made in Hong Kong' to the global stage with stakeholders.
Official website: www.comixhomebase.com.hk | Facebook: hkacchb | Instagram: @comixhomebase
