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Name Most Prolific Manga Artist
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Data Info Wee Tian Beng was the first Singapore artist to break into the international manga markets; in Taiwan with his 1993 comic series Astronautics and in Hong Kong with his Adventures of Wisely in 1994. The Astronautics was serialised in The Century Boys, a Taiwanese comic magazine with 40,000 copies in circulation. His adaptation of Louis Cha’s Return of the Condor Heroes sold 1.5 million copies. In 1999 he began working on the Chinese and English editions of The Celestial Zone. The series was eventually distributed in Asia, Europe, US and Australia. To date, Wee has created more than 100 volumes of manga works.
 
 
     
 
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