Cheng Shifa (程十发)
Cheng Shifa (1921-2007) was from Songjiang, in the vicinity of Shanghai. In 1941, he graduated from the Shanghai Fine Arts Training School. He joined the East China People's Fine Arts Publishing House (now the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House) in 1952. Four years later he participated in the preparatory work of setting up the Shanghai Academy of National Painting, which he now heads.
Cheng's artistic specialities included Chinese painting, comic strips, book illustrations and New Year pictures.
Sources:
Andreas Seifert, Bildgeschichten für Chinas Massen -- Comic und Comicproduktion im 20. Jahrhundert (Köln, etc.: Böhlau Verlag, 2008)
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists - A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2006)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
