Artist Chiu Hsien-hsun has been drawing satirical cartoons for over two decades. Recently, he published the first ever history of Taiwan in caricature, a collected volume of satirical cartoons entitled A Hand-drawn Illustration of Taiwan’s 400-Year History.
Chiu says he first read Su Beng’s Taiwan’s 400-Year History in France, where he went to study in 1990. Having been educated under the party-state system, the book left him dumbstruck, and he started to ponder questions such as, “Who am I?” and “What is this country [to which I belong]?” From that moment on, Chiu’s art — and even his life — took on a whole new direction.
Following his return to Taiwan, Chiu became what he describes as someone “on the extreme end of the independence/unification political divide.” Having never concealed his forthright views, Chiu began to put to work his artistic skills, honed through years of professional training, by collaborating with a large number of politicians.
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This was the situation in which, about five years ago, Chiu was introduced to Su. One day while at Su’s house, Chiu saw a copy of Taiwan’s 400-Year History in Cartoon, drawn by Su himself. Su had originally hoped he would be able to help more people to understand Taiwan’s history by using entertaining cartoons. As the first volume received a somewhat lukewarm reception on publication, Su decided not to go ahead with the second volume. Chiu then determined to complete the project, and do an illustrated Taiwan’s 400-Year History himself. He managed to obtain Su’s full approval for the idea.
Chiu threw himself into the project, but discovered the drawing did not come easily, since each illustration required him to read up again on each historical episode in order to understand the full sequence of events. Chiu originally thought it would take him one month to complete the illustrated book; in the end it turned into a three-year project.
When the book was published, Chiu rushed over to Su’s house to give him the first look. He says that Su, who is to celebrate his 100th birthday this year, was over the moon.
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(Liberty Times, translated by Edward Jones)
從事諷刺漫畫超過二十年的邱顯洵，日前發表國內第一本以台灣史為主題的諷刺畫報圖輯《手繪台灣人四百年史》。
邱顯洵說，一九九○年他赴法國留學，第一次讀到史明寫的《台灣人四百年史》，讓在黨國教育下成長的他萬分驚訝，開始思考：我是誰？我的國家是什麼？甚至讓他的藝術創作與人生有了全新的開始。
回國之後，邱顯洵成為自己口中「統獨光譜最旁邊」的人，從不掩飾鮮明立場的他，發揮科班出身的繪畫技巧和歷練開放文化的創意，陸續和不少政治人物合作。
在這樣的背景下，約莫五年前，邱顯洵經人介紹認識了史明，某日，他在史明家中看到史明親自繪著的《漫畫台灣人四百年史》，原本希望更多人透過趣味的漫畫來了解台灣歷史的這本書，因出版後未引起太多關注，史明畫了上集，就不想再畫下集，邱顯洵便「誇下海口」，要把整本《台灣人四百年史》畫成漫畫，也獲得史明的完整授權和認可。
真正投入創作後，邱顯洵發現「畫起來好困難」，因為每畫一張圖，就得重新閱讀一次歷史，了解整件事的來龍去脈。因此，原以為一個月就能畫完的《手繪台灣人四百年史》，足足畫了三年多。
書一出版，邱顯洵就迫不及待地先拿給史明看，而今年將過百歲生日的史明見了書也很高興。
(自由時報記者楊明怡)
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