Prominent Chinese comic artist flees China ahead of the Olympics
Prominent comic artist Guo Jingxiong has fled China ahead of the Olympics after producing works offending the CCP. They were related to the Nine Commentaries of the Chinese Communist Party and the international movement of Quitting the Chinese Communist Party. He has faced persecution from the CCP previously for being a Falun Gong practitioner.
In an interview with SOH on August fourth, Guo revealed that he used the opportunity, while attending Santiago’s Comic Exhibition in the United States, to flee China. He said he might be detained by China’s national security office if he stayed in China.
Guo Jingxiong is the first ethnic Chinese to receive the Oscar of the Comic industry – the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Comic Book. He has a contract with the biggest comic publisher in Europe.
Guo said due to his contract with a French publisher, the continued concern of a number of French nationals and the Olympics the communist regime had refrained from arresting him. He fled to the United States nonetheless, to avoid further issues with the CCP.
August 5th, 2008
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