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Showing posts with label Blazing Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blazing Comics. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2020
Comics: Chu F. Hing in Alter Ego #164
#164, May 2020, “The Forgotten Super-Heroes of 1944-45”, pages 31, 32, 38
Friday, August 8, 2014
The Green Turtle in China
On July 18, 2014, I had a morning appointment at the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, the People’s Government of Guangzhou Municipality. With me were my son, Aaron, and Professor Peng Changxin, of South China University of Technology, who drove us to the office.
I brought a suitcase full of books, periodicals, Playbills, comic books, menus, matchcovers, a watercolor painting and a hole puncher; all of them related to the Chinese in the United States. These items were donated for the Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Museum, which is under construction.
I presented the items to Deputy Director Feng Guang Jun and other officers. Included were copies of Blazing Comics, numbers three and four, and The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew. I explained to Feng that the comics books featured a superhero, the Green Turtle, created by Chu Fook Hing, in the mid-1940s. I told him that a new story had been published about the Green Turtle by Yang and Liew. (I received an advanced copy of The Shadow Hero from Yang’s publisher, First Second Books.) Chu’s watercolor painting was donated, too.
I brought a suitcase full of books, periodicals, Playbills, comic books, menus, matchcovers, a watercolor painting and a hole puncher; all of them related to the Chinese in the United States. These items were donated for the Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Museum, which is under construction.
I presented the items to Deputy Director Feng Guang Jun and other officers. Included were copies of Blazing Comics, numbers three and four, and The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew. I explained to Feng that the comics books featured a superhero, the Green Turtle, created by Chu Fook Hing, in the mid-1940s. I told him that a new story had been published about the Green Turtle by Yang and Liew. (I received an advanced copy of The Shadow Hero from Yang’s publisher, First Second Books.) Chu’s watercolor painting was donated, too.
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| Feng Guang Jun (left) and Alex Jay (right). Photo by Professor Peng Changxin |
As you may know, all of the Green Turtle stories took place in China. With my donation of Blazing Comics and The Shadow Hero, the Green Turtle really is in China. It’s up to the museum curator to decide how to use Chu’s comics and watercolor, along with Yang and Liew’s graphic novel.
Related post: Gene Yang at the National Book Festival.
Related post: Gene Yang at the National Book Festival.
(Next post on Friday: Bruce Lee in Hong Kong and Guangzhou)
Thursday, January 16, 2014
The Art of Chu F. Hing, Part 4
Chu F. Hing was an artist who worked in the comic book
industry during the 1940s and early 1950s.
RURAL HOME
Blazing Comics
#1, June 1944
Blazing Comics
#2, July 1944
Panel from the Digital Comics Museum;
bottom of the vertical red banner has
the Chinese characters Chu Fook Hing.
Panels from the Digital Comics Museum
First panel of second tier has a scroll
with the Chinese characters Chu Family.
Blazing Comics
#3, September 1944
Bottom of the vertical red banner has
the Chinese characters Chu Fook Hing.
Chinese characters Chu Fook in last panel.
Blazing Comics
#4, February 1945
Top of the vertical red banner has
the Chinese characters Chu Fook Hing.
Blazing Comics
#5, March 1945
Second panel has a sign with the
Chinese characters Chu Fook Hing.
The panel in the lower left corner has
a scroll, behind Burma Boy, with the
Chinese characters Chu Fook Hing.
Maybe the Black Turtle, in ancient Chinese astronomy,
was the inspiration for a superhero based on a turtle.
A black turtle appeared in the background of every issue.
The Shadow Hero
Story by Gene Luen Yang with art by Sonny Liew
An origin story for the Green Turtle
July 15, 2014
First Second Books
The Green Turtle in China
#1, January 1945
Red Circle Comics
#2, February 1945
The Judge and the Jury
File available at the Digital Comic Museum;
requires registration
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(Tomorrow: About the Artist: Chu F. Hing)
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