After secondary school, So studied design at the Hong Kong Design Institute as the city did not have a degree for comic artists. Upon graduating, he worked as an advertising designer. It wasn’t ...

like the artist, draws semi-autobiographical comics as he attempts to grapple with his sense of dislocation and disaffection from the go-go atmosphere that has accompanied China’s economic boom.

You can find a lot of frames in a manga in which the artist zooms in on the characters’ eyes or mouths to reveal their inner thoughts. Japanese comic artist Britney Hamada teaches our JRs the ...