Published: 9:00am, 24 May 2025Updated: 9:13am, 24 May 2025
Growing up in Hong Kong in the 1980s, Man Tsang Wai-man spent his free time immersed in the world of Dragon Ball, one of his favourite manga, and sketching his own interpretations of the protagonist Son Goku’s future adventures.
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Little did the young dreamer know that years later, his artworks would venture to another galaxy far, far away …
Tsang, now 46, has been chosen by Disney to adapt a beloved Star Wars novel about Grand Admiral Thrawn – one of the most cunning and formidable villains of the interstellar universe – into a manga.
The artist’s involvement in Disney’s latest series of Star Wars manga is exciting news and a rare milestone for Hong Kong’s comic industry, a once-thriving sector now in serious decline.
The adaptation, based on Hugo Award-winning writer Timothy Zahn’s 2017 novel Star Wars: Thrawn, was announced at last month’s Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Tokyo.
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“Our creative industries in Hong Kong, especially the comic industry, have been in decline for two decades, you’d think it is impossible to get these opportunities,” Tsang said.