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LI CHI TAK
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There is no need to differentiate alternative comics from commercial comics, for the so-called alternative is just another side of the commercial. Comics is at the same time a form of art.
Li began his career in the comics industry in 1982. After working for a corporate comics publisher in Hong Kong for a month, he decided to start his own venture as a freelancer. Following on from the release of The Wisely series, 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.

Black Mask, Assassins, Tien Yao Ji, Superbaby, Little Strawberry, and K are major works that he created in the early stage of his career. Selected publications from this decade include The Voyager, The Lover, and Folio, Little Circle, Vicious and Solar Eclipse.
Lis transmedia creations transcend the boundary of comics and expand into movies, experimental theatres, literature, pop music and sculptures. His idiosyncratic style has attracted the attention and commissions from local and international brands such as Nike, New Balance, IdN, Uniqlo, Starbucks and Hong Kong International Airport.
Li is also well-known to the international comics scene. His comics has been published in places like Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Mainland China, France and Italy since the 90s.

In 2016, the Hong Kong Arts Centre had jointly curated Lis solo exhibition with the Angoulme International Comics Festival in France as one of the Festivals thematic exhibitions. His French comics The Beast, a collaborative project with the famous Belgian writer Jean Dufaux, was released at the same time. This solo exhibition had given birth to another international cooperation opportunity. Li was invited by the Louvre Museum to create a new comics Moon of the Moon. The French version has been released in November 2019 in Europe, with a Hong Kong Chinese version keenly in preparation by local publisher, Today Publications.

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" Nul besoin dopposer la BD indpendante la BD commerciale. Dune part, l« indpendant » nest quune catgorie de loffre ; dautre part, la bande dessine a tout fait sa place dans le panthon des arts. "
Li entame sa carrire de bdiste en 1982 en intgrant une grande maison ddition de BD hongkongaise, avant de devenir artiste indpendant un mois plus tard. Dessinateur pour la srie polar populaire The Wisely, il publie en 1987 Tong Men Shao Nian, un recueil de one-shots qui le rend clbre. linstar de celui-ci, Li cultive un style distinctif en batissant un univers visuel inquitant et exprimental qui transgresse les conventions de genre.

Plusieurs œuvres marquent le dbut de sa carrire, telles que Black Mask, Assassins, Tien Yao Ji, Superbaby, Little Strawberry et K. Et parmi ses crations plus rcentes comptent The Voyager, The Lover, Folio, Little Circle, Vicious, Solar Eclipse.
Au-del de la bande dessine, Li laisse galement ses empreintes dans de nombreux projets et domaines artistiques : cinma, thatre exprimental, littrature, musique pop, architecture, etc. Son style singulier attire galement les propositions de collaboration des grandes marques internationales telles que Nike, New Balance, IdN, Uniqlo, Starbucks et Aroport international de Hong Kong.

Li est un des bdistes hongkongais les plus apprcis ltranger. Depuis les annes 1990, ses œuvres sont traduites et publies au Japon (chez Kodansha et Shgakukan), Taïwan, en Malaisie, en Chine populaire, en France et en Italie.
En 2016, le Centre darts de Hong Kong sassocie avec le Festival international de la bande dessine dAngoulme pour monter une rtrospective de Li. cette occasion sort sa BD The Beast, fruit dune collaboration entre Li et le scnariste belge Jean Dufaux. Son exposition solo donne dailleurs lieu une nouvelle collaboration internationale, cette fois-ci avec le Muse du Louvre. Moon of the Moon, lœuvre issue de cette collaboration paraît en Europe en novembre 2019 et la version chinoise sortira prochainement Hong Kong.


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ArtistLI CHI TAK ־_
https://www.lichitak.com/
Li began his career in the comics industry in 1982. After working for a corporate comics publisher in Hong Kong for a month, he decided to start his own venture as a freelancer. Following on from the release of The Wisely series, 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.



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