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Reuters
Reuters
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By Jessie Pang

Hong Kong 'firefighter' cartoonist bids farewell to newspaper strip after 40 years

Cartoonist Wong Kei-kwan, who uses the pen name Zunzi, poses for photos after his comic strip has been scrapped from the local newspaper Ming Pao in Hong Kong, China May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

One of Hong Kong's most prominent political cartoonists, whose newspaper cartoon strip was axed on Sunday after four decades, defended freedom of expression in the face of political pressures while urging others to keep speaking out.

"Apart from news reports, cartoons are used to record some of society's moods, or some very layman ideas, those of ordinary people, and to question and challenge," Wong Kei-kwan, 67, told Reuters on Monday.

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