Tuesday, January 3, 2017, 13:05

By chinadailyasia.com

Old Master Q magazine celebrates its 50th anniversary this January. The photo is taken from http://www.oldmasterq.com

HONG KONG - Alphonso Wong Kar-hei, the creator of iconic comic character Old Master Q, passed away at 5:57 am on Jan 1, at the age of 93, in the US.

Beginning 1962, Wong published the comic strip that made Old Master Q famous in several local newspapers and magazines

Born in 1925 in Tianjin, Wong studied western painting at the Catholic University of Peking. After moving to Hong Kong in 1956, Wong drew illustrations for the bible and a church's pictorial magazine over a decade.

Beginning 1962, Wong published the comic strip that made Old Master Q famous in several local newspapers and magazines, using the pseudonym Wong Chak which happened to be his oldest son’s name. The series became a huge hit and Wong continued with it till 1995 when his son Wong Chak took over the mantle.

The comic strip captured in an irreverent light the cultural differences between the East and the West and remains a fond childhood memory for different generations of Hong Kong people.