For a thin 30-odd-page weekly comic magazine printed in colour, every single page represents the strenuous effort of the people behind. With their hands and pens, they race against the clock in sleepless nights to provide us with easily affordable entertainment.
Having joined the comic profession in 1978, comic artist KHOO Fuk-lung has experienced the highs and lows of the industry over the past four decades. It was his passion for comics that brought him into the industry, and it is also this passion that motivates him to improve and enhance himself continuously so as not to disappoint his readers. Through observing how KHOO creates comics, we will try to find out how good quality comics should be appreciated.
In this episode, we will also interview several individuals who are closely connected with Hong Kong comics. Dr. FAN Wing-chung has been studying Hong Kong comics for years. He is convinced that Hong Kong comics, with their unimaginably high artistic quality, can be considered as representative of the city. KHOO happens to be the local comic artist he admires the most. Comic book cover artist HO Chi-hung has prepared book covers for various comic artists over the years. He even organizes drawing classes in leisure time to introduce the unparalleled technique displayed in Hong Kong comics on the use of colours and composition. Comic souvenir shop owner Dicky believes that the biggest benefit of comic-related products to the industry concerns not the revenue it brings, but the promotional opportunity it offers, since more people will come to know about comics and fall in love with them. As regards to the shift to sheet-fed printing technique in the comic world nowadays, printer Human CHEUNG thinks that it facilitates comic production companies in cost control and in fully meeting artists’ requirements regarding colours.
出版公仔書--三十多頁全彩色的薄裝漫畫周刊，全頼一眾從業員每人的一對手、一枝筆，日日廢寢忘食的趕製出來，為大家提供廉價娛樂。
漫畫家邱福龍，1978年入行，四十年來歷盡行業的高低起伏，為著對漫畫的熱愛入行，亦為著對漫畫的熱愛繼續精進自己。提升自己，只為不希望讓讀者失望。透過觀察邱福龍製作漫畫的過程，我們嘗試找尋出品優質漫畫的法門。
本集更走訪了幾個與港漫拉上關係的人。范永聰博士研究港漫多年，他告訴我們港漫有足夠份量代表香港，藝術性之高遠超想像，而本集主角邱福龍，就是他最崇拜的本地漫畫家。漫畫封面美術員亞傑多，多年來為不同主筆處理漫畫封面，他工餘開設畫班，把港漫獨有的用色和構圖流傳開去。港漫精品店的林正德告訴我們，漫畫周邊產品最能幫到漫畫本身的不是金錢，是推廣，是為讓更多人接觸漫畫，然後更愛上漫畫。現今的漫畫大多改為平張印刷，印刷商張智彥認為這樣有助漫畫公司控制成本，亦更能做到接近漫畫家對顏色的要求。
