|
Larry Feign
has been disappointing his mother, who still thinks he'd make a better brain surgeon, since the age of 7. That's when he started drawing cartoons for his primary school magazine. Mom is still not satisfied that he's produced animated cartoons merely for obscure broadcasters like Cartoon Network and Disney, and his comics and illustrations have only appeared in such insignificant journals as Time, Newsweek, The Economist, Fortune, Business Week, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, Pravda, and other publications around the world. She's not happy that he's published only 14 books or won a number of awards for both cartoons and animation. All of this only detracts from her ultimate goal of being able to utter the magic words: "My son the doctor."
Larry was born on the same date as Walt Disney and the King of Thailand, so he felt destined to become either a cartoonist or a monarch. His attempt to locate and rule Gilligan's Island as emperor never came to fruition. So he had only one direction left. He began his cartooning career as a caricature artist at Honolulu's Waikiki Beach. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he joined DIC Entertainment, one of the largest animation studios in Hollywood. In 1985 he visited Hong Kong, intending to stay for two weeks, and ended up staying 20+ years, producing daily cartoons for English-language newspapers in Hong Kong and Malaysia. His The World of Lily Wong comic strip was considered a belwether of life and politics in Hong Kong. Perhaps for that reason, the strip was abruptly terminated in 1995 when the new, Communist-shoe-leather-licking owner of his newspaper took issue with the way his charming buddies in the Politburo were being portrayed. By the way, Amnesty International gave Larry an award for the cartoons that just happened to get him fired. In 1997 Larry was commissioned by Britain's The Independent to chronicle, in cartoons, Hong Kong's final 100 days under British rule. He moved to London in 1998 and did freelance cartoons for such publications as Time, The Economist, Fortune, and others. After two years in England, Larry was lured back to Hong Kong to resume Lily Wong in the now-defunct English newspaper the Hongkong iMail. In 2001 Larry put aside cartooning and turned to animation. He designs, produces and directs cartoon animation for television, online, and other media. He designed, produced and directed the animation for The AlphaJets, a series for Walt Disney Television, several shorts for Cartoon Network, numerous TV commercials, and hundreds of absolutely idiotic (but funny) e-cards. He also writes regular commentary columns for two magazines. Larry considers himself a "generic" American: born in New York, raised in California, and lived all over the United States as well as in Germany, Hong Kong and England. He currently resides on the remote island of Lantau in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China with his wife, Psychotherapist Cathy Tsang-Feign, two perfect children, three smelly dogs (or is that two smelly children and three perfect dogs?), as well as many lovely seasonal migrating birds and the occasional cobra and python around the garden. In his spare time, Larry enjoys Snickers bars, cycling, and sailing his yacht (alright, so it's really a 15-foot dinghy catamaran) around the outlying islands of Hong Kong.
|
