CHINA
Preparing for the 6th World
Comics Summit in China
Zhengzhou, China, March 1, 2003 - Members of an international
planning committee gathered in the capital of Henan Province to
discuss and prepare for the 6th
World Comics Summit to be held there in October. The 22 member
strong committee was made up of international cartoonists, association
presidents, publishers, and government officials. They were: Ana
von Rebeur (Argentina), Rolf Heimann (Australia),
Ronald Libin (Belgium), Chang Yougong,
You Qi, Wang Yong Sheng, Pang Bang Ben, Hu Changguo, Yang Shangjun,
Xu Tao and Xia Dachuan (China), Yamada
Keitaro, Sekiguchi Haruhisa, Chiba Hiroshi
(Japan), Shin Moon Soo and Kwon Young Sup
(South Korea), Wen Shaolun, He Caiting,
We Hui (Hong Kong), Max Lai and
Chen Zhihua (Taiwan), and Joe Szabo
(USA). The representative of the African continent, Patrick
Gathara of Kenya, was not able to attend. Beside laying
out plans for the October events, the committee passed a declaration
to protect intellectual rights. After the conference, Heimann, Rebeur,
Szabo and Xia went on to participate in a symposium of "news
cartoonists" in Beijing organized by China Daily,
the country's official English language newspaper (see article).
For information
about how to participate in the exhibition and/or the events of
the upcoming 6th World Comics Summit in Zhengzhou,
please send an e-mail to editor@wittyworld.com
or call WittyWorld's Pennsylvania office at 215-699-6074.
Website helps to popularize editorial cartoons
Beijing, China, February 10, 2002 - Cartoonists have their own way of expressing opinions, as people may
find out at www.chinadaily.com.cn,
the country's first website for editorial cartoons. Whether their
motifs are simple or elaborate, and whether they use a brush, pen,
or computer mouse, cartoonists are concerned with a wide range of
issues from world politics to family matters. Their observations
are keen and their messages are clear. The website, launched in
July, 2001, has provided cartoonists with a new medium to display
their art and reach far more people. Luo Jie, 23, said he
considers the website his home for expressing his opinions about
world news. The China Newscartoon Society, is the website's co-sponsor.
The website has already gathered a large number of leading Chinese
editorial cartoonists and is contributing to the popularization
of editorial cartoons in the country, said Zhang Yaoning,
secretary-general of the society and chief artistic manager of the
website. The works displayed in the Internet Gallery represent the
best of China's cartoons. "In the past, we often felt that
the team of editorial cartoonists in the country was approaching
middle age. But now we have discovered quite a number of younger
artists like Luo Jie who will definitely carry on the artistic pursuit,"
said Zhang, also chief cartoon editor of China Daily, which
opened the editorial cartoon platform within its own website.
Cartoons
used to improve traffic safety in China
Beijing, China, February 4, 2002. A cartoon exhibition with the theme of "Beijing Traffic Safety"
was staged in the China Art Gallery, Beijing. About 100 cartoons created
by nine well-known cartoonists in Beijing, including 85 year-old Hua
Junwu and Zhang Yaoning, the Chinese editor of WittyWorld.
The www.newscartoon.com site has more cartoons for viewing focusing on people
who disregard traffic laws causing accidents either by automobiles or bicycles.
One of the oldest Chinese cartoonists is no more
Beijing, January 9, 2002
- Well-known Chinese cartoonist Sheng, Tongheng, died
in Beijing at the age of 88. He made his name in the 1940s, but faced difficult
times during the Cultural Revolution up until the death of Mao Tse-Tung.
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