30. Samba X Badminton
Comic Work: Samba Family
Comic Artist: Keung Chi Kit
About Character
Name of Character:Samba
A little savage from Africa, born with supernatural powers, loves to play, eat, sleep and make fun of others. He lives a happy and crazy life with his brother Gong and a large group of animal friends.
About Comic Artist – Keung Chi Kit
Keung started drawing comics after studying of illustration and graphic design. After winning the Comics New Talent Award by Rightman Comics in 1999, he became one of the most popular comics writers of CO-CO!. He has written a number of humorous comics include Samba Family. Appreciated by publishers in mainland China and Singapore, Samba series was published in simplified Chinese and English. In 2008, Keung won the 4th Golden Dragon Award Original Animation & Comic Competition – The Best Children Comics Award.
In 2015, Keung was invited by Hong Kong Arts Centre to become one of the Hong Kong comics representatives joining The Angoulême International Comics Festival in France; in the same year, he also participated in decorating the tram body for Ding! Ding! Comix Tram. In 2016, Samba was selected as one of the new characters for Hong Kong Avenue of Comics Star and Ani-Com Park @ Harbour“FUN”.
In 2020, he participated in Oxfam’s “Little Citizens of the World” educational picture book project and launched the picture book “The Best Invention”; in the same year, he also launched the “Samba STEM” science knowledge comic series.