Wong Sze-ma first published the Ngau-chai comic strips in the 1970s for a Hong Kong daily newspaper, but readers today still enjoy the touching relationship between the little boy named Ngau-chai and his father. The simple line drawings and memorable characters (a kid with a head the size of a beach ball? Definitely memorable) portray both the happiness and struggles that parents face when raising a child.

History of the Ngau-chai Comic Strips

When Ngau-chai made his first appearance in Wong Sze-ma's first series of comic strips, Father and Ms. (printed in the Hong Kong newspaper, the Ming Pao Daily News), he, like his mother, was a side character who made only the occasional appearance. Father and Ms. focused on gags featuring Father and one of his colleagues (Ms.), and was published as a standalone comic book in 1968. Although Wong's drawing style would change slighty over the next twenty years, the character design was basically set at this point, as well as the comic strip's format: a four-panel, 2 by 2 grid of black and white drawings with little or no text.

Ngau-chai (which literally means "cow boy") soon stole the spotlight, and readers were eager to see more of the little boy and his dad. In 1971, another set of comic strips was published, under the title of Father and Son. Another series, Father, Ngau-chai, and Ms., was published starting in 1972, followed by My Boy in 1980. By this time, Wong had shifted the focus completely to the endearing relationship between Ngau-chai and his father; other characters, including Ngau-chai's mother and, to a lesser extent, Ms., continued to appear from time to time, but Ngau-chai and Father had become the main draw.

Starting in 1982, a collection of these comic strips was published under the title Ngau-chai until Wong's death in 1983. After his passing, a new set of comic books was released, the Ngau-chai Collection; this 41-volume compilation used comic strips from all of Wong's Ngau-chai series.

About Hong Kong Cartoonist Wong Sze-ma

Wong Sze-ma was born in Macau in 1940 as Wong Wing-hing. He attended primary and secondary school in Macau, and then in Guangdong, China; here, he also studied fine art before returning to his native Macau in 1957, where he worked as a teacher.

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