2015 Angoulême International Comics Festival, Taiwan Pavilion: Comic Artist from TAIWAN: LI Lung-Chieh 李隆杰

self portrait by Li Lung-Chieh

Real name and year of birth unknown. A depicter of the depressed human populace, this mysterious comic artist is quiet to the point of being easily forgotten. He won the First Annual Ching Win Comic Award for Best New Artist in 1998 and published other short comics works between the period of time when he won the Second Annual Ching Win Comic Award for Best New Artist as well as the Third, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Tong Li Short Comics Awards. After winning the Government Information Office of Executive Yuan's Graphic Novel Awards in 2008, he published his first comic book Roachgirl. In 2010, he published his second comic book Animal Impact independently and in 2011 was nominated for the Golden Comic Best Youth Comic Award at the 2011 International Festival of Comics of Algeria.

After publishing Taiwan Super Riders in 2011, he became a representative artist at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2012, he was invited to present his work at the Planète Manga Workshop held in Centre Georges Pompidou in France. His latest work in 2013 Taiwan Determination: Legend of Beigang, also his masterpiece so far, was adapted from historical facts as well as anecdotes in Taiwan, with local customs integrated in it and featuring bold and explicit fighting scenes.

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Awards:

．2006 Best New Artist at the 2nd Annual Ching-Win Comic Awards

．2007~2009 Nominee at the 12th, 13th, and 14th Annual Tong Li Short Comics Awards

．2008 Government Information Office’s Best Drama Comic “Superior” Award

．2011 Nominee at the 4th Annual International Festival of Comics of Algeria

．2012 Representative artist at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Angoulême International Comics Festival

．2012 Representative artist at the Planète Manga Workshop, Centre Georges Pompidou in France

Selected Works:

．2008 覺醒人間-螂女飛翔傳 Roachgirl / Tong li Publishing Co.

．2010 動物衝擊頻道 Animal Impact / Elephant White Cultural Enterprise Co.

．2011 台灣超級機車 Taiwan Super Riders / Elephant White Cultural Enterprise Co.

．2013 新世紀北港神拳 Taiwan Determination : Legend of Beigang / Gaea Books