A Little Strawberry Vol. 1 – 2022 Reprint Edition (Hardcover)

Author’s bio:  
Chi-tak Li began his career in the comics industry in 1982. After working for a corporate comics publisher in Hong Kong for a month, he decided to start his own venture as a freelancer. Following on from the release of The Wisely series, he self-published Tong Men Shao Nian, a prominent title which rocketed him to fame in 1987. He has since developed a distinctive art style, creating his own visual world with eerily experimental works that broke genre rules.

 Li’s transmedia creations transcend the boundary of comics and expand into movies, experimental theatres, literature, pop music and sculptures. His idiosyncratic style has attracted the attention and commissions from local and international brands. Li is also well-known to the international comics scene. His comics has been published in places like Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Mainland China, France and Italy since the 90s.

In 2016, the Hong Kong Arts Centre had jointly curated Li’s solo exhibition with the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France as one of the Festival’s thematic exhibitions. His French comics The Beast, a collaborative project with the famous Belgian writer Jean Dufaux, was released at the same time. This solo exhibition had given birth to another international cooperation opportunity. Li was invited by the Louvre Museum to create a new comics Moon of the Moon. The French version was released in November 2019 in Europe and the Hong Kong Chinese version by Today Publications in March 2020. In 2021, he published romance comics Yum Sui, and Kafka to pay homage to Franz Kafka's literary classics.

Book description:
Little Strawberry is a primary school student. She has four family members, including a younger brother called Tsz-yan, and her caring parents. She is full of curiosity about the (adult) world, sometimes asking questions that makes her parents laugh out of embarrassment.

The content of the comics are all simple units – no superpowers, no monsters, no aliens, no natural disasters; each story is full of innocence, childishness, caring and encouraging messages.

For parents, this is a comics book that can recall memories of the community in the past and the family bonding. For children, it is an opportunity for them to learn about their parents' generation and relive the morality, intelligence, physique, social skills and aesthetics together through reading this comics book.