VIBErations Episode 24 - Larry Feign

VIBErations podcast Ep 24. Larry Feign author of 'The Flower Boat Girl' at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 19th April 2021

BIO

Larry Feign is an award-winning artist and writer based in Hong Kong. He is well known for his long-running daily political comic strip “Lily Wong”, which satirized life in Hong Kong before and after the handover to China until he retired the cartoon in 2007. Feign’s work has appeared in Time, The Economist, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications around the world. He also directed animated cartoons for Walt Disney Television and Cartoon Network.

He is a MacDowell Fellow and three-time recipient of Amnesty International Human Rights Press Awards. He now writes books full-time, including a best-selling children’s book series under the pen name MD Whalen. The Flower Boat Girl is his first novel for adults. Larry Feign lives in a small village on Lantau Island, not far from old pirate haunts, with his wife, psychologist and author Cathy Tsang-Feign, their two dogs, and the occasional uninvited python.

For information about his “Lily Wong” and other cartoon books, please visit https://larryfeign.com https://piratequeenbook.com

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? – Children’s biography of Thomas Eddison

2. Favourite musical artist? - Joni Mitchell

3. Preferred drink? - Coffee

4. Life motto? - Quote from Katherine Dunn

5. Favourite HK walk? - Mui Wo to Tung Chung

6. Favourite HK restaurant? – Tung Fong Siu Kee Yuen in Wanchai

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – Just walk away

8. Best advice you were given? - To drop out of a teacher training program

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… Because its home

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? - Mui Wo!