Generally, when people speak of Feng Tze-kai (1898-1975), they think of his comic drawings. Since his first drawing-”A New Moon in the Watery Sky after a Party,” which appeared in Our July, Feng Tze-kai became used to writing and drawing in a casual way, murmuring his mind through his drawings, taking the topics from everyday life, and trying to express his ideas about the society and the people around. Feng Tze-kai was a very well-read person, excelling in many art forms besides drawings, e.g., seal type cutting, translating, prose writing, music composing, art criticism, musical instrument playing, etc. All these different talents and experiences, along with everyday life experiences, provided him with endless resources for creation. Thus, we can say that the comic creations of Feng Tze-kai were like the flowers blooming from the soil of his artistic life. Feng Tze-kai's comic creations were like a scroll of modern ink paintings, where we seem to hear the truest and profoundest song flowing out of the artist's innermost soul, or to enjoy the warmest concerns of kindly human beings and the crashing roars of turning of different ages. The very simplicity, the warmth, and the perfect combination of the elegant with the ordinary has given Feng Tze-kai's works a special tone, which emerges here and there with fragrance all over his drawings.
