Tong Li Comics

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Tong Li Comics (Chinese: 東立, Hanyu Pinyin: "Dōng Lì" is a publishing company which distributes a variety of domestic and imported comics in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

History

Tong Li entered the publishing business as a comic book pirate. "For fifteen years, Tong Li was the largest producer of pirated comics, redoing more than 1,000 titles in all, and for part of that time, fifty a month." [John A. Lent, "Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign" (1999) p. 195.]

Tong Li's original method of operation was to procure new comics from Japanese distributors, replacing the Japanese text with traditional Chinese, and "drawing bras on bare-breasted women characters and modifying, up to what they could get away with, explicitly sexual or violent panels". ["Pulp Demons", p. 195.] The head of Tong Li, Fang Wan-nan, "jokingly referred to himself as the 'king of pirated comics'". ["Pulp Demons", p. 195.] However, a 1992 Taiwanese law forbidding the pirating of comics forced Tong Li to develop original content, at which point it began publishing "Dragon Youth" and "Star Lass" - titles which retained the considerable influence of Japanese manga. ["Pulp Demons", p. 195.]

Titles

Titles distributed by Tong Li include:

*"Air Gear"
*""
*"Death Note"
*"Doraemon"
*"Elemental Gelade"
*"Great Teacher Onizuka"
*"Hikaru no Go"
*"Hunter × Hunter"
*"Ichigo 100%"
*"Kekkaishi"
*"Kerberos Panzer Cop
*"Kindaichi Case Files"
*"Love Hina"
*"Mirmo!"
*""
*"One Piece"
*"Reborn!"
*"Rose Hip Zero"
*"Watashi no Messiah-sama"
*"Yu-Gi-Oh!"

References

External links

* [http://www.tongli.com.tw/ Company website zh_icon]