Old Master Q: What The @#$% Is Going On? Original Works by Alphonso Wong
By Susanna Chen
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“Who is Lau Fu Zi?” If you pose this question to a Chinese person, his or her response would perhaps be, “Are you kidding?” followed by an awkward and incredulous silence. The truth is that even a seven-year-old child would be able to identify this figure—the protagonist of an enduring Chinese comic series. This summer, 128 original illustrations of Old Master Q (or Lau Fu Zi in Chinese), produced from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, were displayed in “Old Master Q: What The @#$% Is Going On? Original Works by Alphonso Wong,” at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery. All works, signed by the artist and stamped by the OMQ Studio, were up for grabs at the selling exhibition. Meanwhile, local families also had the chance to meet with classic characters such as Old Master Q, Big Potato and Mr. Chin—and take pictures with their cardboard figures.
