The Winged Tiger in CHINA

 

Phil Yeh and Lieve Jerger have created a brand new comic strip for China's LITTLE STAR Magazine.

 

Little Star's editor-in-Chief, Xing ["Shing"] Yangjian, met Phil Yeh for the first time, and quickly invited "the Fastest Cartoonist on Earth" to present awards for young artists in the Little Star Environmental Poster Design competition, held in in Beijing, China last February. The event featured artists from International Schools and students from around the world. After the ceremony, Xing asked Yeh to create a new comic strip for his Little Star magazine's upcoming issue. Since they were closing in fast on a press deadline, Phil actually stayed up all night and drew a two-page black & white strip in his hotel room! The first installment of the cartoon strip was an instant hit and Xing emailed Phil soon after, asking him to draw another 4-page cartoon for a second installment of this feature.

This time, Phil was back in California, working 18 hours every day drawing and inking his new epic opus, the Cazco graphic novel. Phil really welcomed the chance to print this second comic strip episode in full color, which meant that Lieve Jerger also had to take a break from coloring the epic Cazco novel pages, trying to keep up with the Fastest Cartoonist in the World. The results are featured here, and both Lieve and Phil will be in Beijing in May 2007, after attending the Third Annual China Cartoon Festival in Hangzhou, an event that is expected to draw more than 300,000 people in 4 days. The Winged Tiger in China was written in English first, but Phil and Lieve's plan is to have the collected strips (all 48 pages) published in one full-color book, translated and published in at least 30 languages, off the presses in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

SO PLEASE: interested publishers around the world who are eagerly reading this: write us an email to philyeh@mac.com and let's talk about getting this book published in YOUR own language.

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