Nicky Lee
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Nicky Lee is the pen name of Li Chung Ping (李崇萍), a popular manhua
author in Taiwan
. She writes primarily for the teenage girl market, specializing in comedy, drama and romance.
Lee works as one of the main staff artists for Taiwan's Tong Li Comics
.
, which started its five year run in 1996, was her longest and most popular work. So far four works have been published in the magazine, one of which is ongoing.
Nicky Lee's personal life is not well documented aside from small notes that she writes in the margins of her published works and a few interviews. She is married, without children and credits her mother as her main influence. She is a fan of 1980s American heavy metal music
and cites Fuyumi Souryo (Mars
) and Shimizu Reiko as her role models.
Manhua
Manhua are Chinese comics originally produced in China. Possibly due to their greater degree of artistic freedom of expression and closer international ties with Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been the places of publication of most manhua thus far, often including Chinese translations of...
author in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. She writes primarily for the teenage girl market, specializing in comedy, drama and romance.
Lee works as one of the main staff artists for Taiwan's Tong Li Comics
Tong Li Comics
Tongli Publishing Co. , most known as Tong Li Comics, is a publishing company which distributes a variety of domestic and imported comics in the Republic of China .-History:...
.
Biography
Lee began her career in the year 1992 when she submitted a story to Tong Li's monthly manhua magazine Flower Girl. The story became her first work, Paradise City and began Lee's long career working with Tong Li. Her second work, Youth Gone WildYouth Gone Wild (manhua)
Youth Gone Wild , is a 14 volume manhua series by Taiwanese author Nicky Lee, . Published by Tong Li, the literal translation of 搖滾狂潮 is 'Rock Fever' or 'Raging Tide', though the comic's official English language title is Youth Gone Wild.The story, dated only by its frequent references to music...
, which started its five year run in 1996, was her longest and most popular work. So far four works have been published in the magazine, one of which is ongoing.
Nicky Lee's personal life is not well documented aside from small notes that she writes in the margins of her published works and a few interviews. She is married, without children and credits her mother as her main influence. She is a fan of 1980s American heavy metal music
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
and cites Fuyumi Souryo (Mars
Mars (manga)
Mars is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fuyumi Soryo. Initially serialized in Bessatsu Friend from 1996 to 2000, the series spans 15 tankōbon volumes. It follows the disliked teenage romance between Kira Aso, an introverted artist, and Rei Kashino, a troubled playboy who is a...
) and Shimizu Reiko as her role models.
Works (in chronological order)
- Paradise City (1993): 4 volumes
- Youth Gone WildYouth Gone Wild (manhua)Youth Gone Wild , is a 14 volume manhua series by Taiwanese author Nicky Lee, . Published by Tong Li, the literal translation of 搖滾狂潮 is 'Rock Fever' or 'Raging Tide', though the comic's official English language title is Youth Gone Wild.The story, dated only by its frequent references to music...
(1996): 14 volumes - Provence (2004): 2 volumes
- The OneThe One (manhua)The One is a currently ongoing manhua being written by Taiwanese author Nicky Lee. Published by Tong Li Comics, it is currently being serialized in Star Girls Magazine.-Overview:...
(2005): ongoing