26 Most Bizarre And Amusing Things We Found In This Epic Canto Cartoon
How long did the cartoonist take to draw this Canto cartoon?
By Mei Mei Chu — 26 Feb 2014, 05:18 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
A graphic designer named 阿塗 (Ah To) has illustrated 83 different Cantonese proverbs in ONE cartoon titled "The Great Canton and Hong Kong Proverbs"
阿塗(Ah To), a graphic designer and part-time cartoonist who concerns about the survival of Cantonese in Canton and Hong Kong, has just published a comic called ” The Great Canton and Hong Kong Proverbs” on Hong Kong independent media “Passion Times“. The cartoon contains illustrations of 81 Cantonese proverbs.
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This picture was inspired by Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel who did the same in 1559 with Dutch proverbs in an oil painting titled "Netherlandish Proverbs"
In 1559, Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel created the oil painting “Netherlandish Proverbs” which illustrates many Dutch proverbs to praise the Dutch culture.
Image via nashua.edu“The Great Canton and Hong Kong Proverbs”
In 1559, Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel created the oil painting “Netherlandish Proverbs” which illustrates many Dutch proverbs to praise the Dutch culture. In 2014, Ah To imitated the idea and created “Great Canton and Hong Kong proverbs” illustrating 81 Cantonese proverbs to propagate the Cantonese culture and defend Cantonese.
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