About this piece "Hong Kong Comics" 'Tis a global world.  This entry, authored by Wendy Wong, born in Hong Kong, now a professor of Graphic Design at State University of New York at Utica/Rome was published by Princeton Architectural Press and printed and bound in Tai Po the New Territories, Hong Kong. Hong Kong's near 7 million citizens have been through the decades of British colonial ties through to the hand over to the Peoples Republic of China and are avid readers of comics - some 40 titles are published.  The comic genre has been, by turns political, satirical, humorous, martial and political again. The Cantonese indeed the Chinese comics industry has born thanks to the introduction of Western lithographic printing methods at the end of the 19th Century.  In the Best book Award competition the excellence of Chinese lithography has been repeatedly acknowledged and for the 3rd time in 5 years C&C Offset Printing Co. Ltd. wins the Frank C. Anderko Best Book Award.