Zhang Yulin (1947-2006) was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. Zhang was self-taught in painting and good at Chinese figure painting and comic strips. Over the years, he has created a large number of Chinese paintings, New Year pictures, propaganda posters and comic strips; these have been exhibited and published, and many of them have won awards.

By the end of 1996, Zhang unfortunately was diagnosed with leukemia, but he still continued producing creative work.