::: Author Profile - Wee Tian Beng ::: | 中文 | |||
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Wee Tian
Beng is the first local comic artist to break into the International Comics
Market. His comics had sold over serveral million copies, which is a commercial miracle in Singapore Comics Industry. |
Various Languages
of The Celestial Zone ( Simplified Chinese , Traditional Chinese , English , France , Spanish, Korean, Thailand, Indonesian Language) |
Various Languages
of The Return Of Condor Heros & The Adventures of Wisely ( Simplified Chinese , Traditional Chinese , English , Korean, Thailand, Indonesian Language) Singapore First Illustration Book ~ The Adventures of Wisely Comic Illustration Book |
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In
1989, |
Tian
Beng published his first comic " The New Frontier". |
From
1990-92, |
he created "
The Dream Allegory", "The Escaper Choice", "The New
Frontier" series. Tian Beng was invited by a Taiwan publisher to create his comic "Astronautic", and from there Tian Beng became the Singapore 's first full time professional comic artist. |
In
1993, |
Next
year, Tian Beng was invited again by 2 Hong Kong publishers to create
comics' series for 2 famous novels |
"The
Advertures of Wisely" by Mr. Ni Kuang and " The Return of Condor
Heros " by Louis Cha. |
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In
1997, |
Tian Beng received the Asian Manga Prestigious Award at the Asian Manga Summit held in Seoul, South |
Korea. | |
In
1999, |
Tian Beng
started his comic series " The Celestial Zone" ( Total 25 volumes),
English and Chinese version.
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TCZ became the longest and best selling comic series in Singapore . | |
In
2001, |
he established TCZ Studio Pte Ltd ( The Creative Zone Studio). |
In
2003, |
Tian
Beng published the First Comic Series Spin-Off in Singapore- The Adventure
Of ChiXue. |
In
2003, |
Tian Beng
created Singapore 's first Full Colour comics series - The Celestial Zone
II ( Total 40 volumes). |
In
2006, |
he created
TCZ comic series 3 , The Celestial Zone 21, a sci-fi story which happen
in the 21st century |
Singapore (Total 40 volumes). | |
During
the same year, Tian Beng was invited to conduct seminars and TCZ comic
exhibition in Singapore Art Museum & Suntec City Exhibition Centre. |
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In
2007, |
Tian
Beng founded the Comics Society ( Singapore ). The aims of the society
is to promote Singapore comics |
culture, discover and nurture new talents in local comics. Tian Beng is the president of the society since its | |
founding.
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In
2009, |
he started
the TCZ comics series 4 , TCZ X , a story " When Eastern Spiritual
Power Meets Western Magic" |
( Total 32 volumes). | |
In
2012, |
Tian Beng continues his TCZ comics series 5 , TCZ X.2 |
In
the same year, he published the first Singapore children's educational
interactive comic " Mini The Celestial Zone" ( a combination
of Animation, Comic and Gaming). |
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In
2013, |
Tian Beng has been invitied to create a comic series for USA S2 Games'
latest gameplay~ "STRIFE". |
Recently,
Tian Beng's comics had been translated into 11 different languages: Simplified
Chinese , Traditional Chinese , English , French , Spanish, Vietnamese,
Indonesian , Thai , Japanese, Korean and German. |
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To
date, he had created almost 200 volumes of comic works and almost 100
merchandising products, setting yet another new record for the Singapore
Comics Industry. |
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Tian
Beng is often invited to attend International Comics/ Animation events
,exhibit his art works ,give speech and also be the judge of Comics Competitions. |