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Larry Feign (born December 5, 1955), an American-born cartoonist, is best known for his comic strip The World of Lily Wong. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont graduating with a B.A. in 1979. His earliest continuing comic-strip character was known as "Billy Wizard," which began as a collaboration in high school with Jon Tschirgi, and which he continued alone throughout college. Billy Wizard was also the mascot of a bootleg vinyl record label, "Wizardo Rekords". He and Tschirgi also formed a rock band which released one LP record in 1976 under the name The B. Toff Band, and a 45 rpm single in 1978 under the name Billy Wizard.

Feign started cartooning professionally in 1980 in Honolulu, where he worked as a caricature artist in the International Marketplace. In 1983 he moved to Los Angeles and worked for the animation studio DIC Productions, as a storyboard artist for the "Heathcliff the Cat" animated television series. In 1985 he moved to Hong Kong, where he created a feature called "Aieeyaaa!", a satirical Chinese-word-a-day single-panel cartoon, which ran daily in the Hongkong Standard for one year. He terminated the feature when he started producing The World of Lily Wong for the same newspaper.

The World of Lily Wong ran from 1986 until 2001, and was briefly resumed from October 2007 to March 2008. It appeared in the Hongkong Standard from November 1986 to December 1987; the South China Morning Post between January 1987 and May 1995; The Independent (UK) between March 1997 and June 1997 (to track the handover of power); and the HK iMail from May 2000 until September 2001. Lily Wong also appeared in syndication in Malaysia's New Straits Times from 1991 to 1998.

The abrupt cancellation of Lily Wong by the South China Morning Post in May 1995, following a series of cartoons deemed offensive to the Beijing leadership, garnered international attention, as the most high-profile case to date of media self-censorship in final years preceding Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China.

From 1998-2000 Feign lived in London, where he produced a comic strip known as "The Royals", which satirized the antics of the British Royal Family, and a weekly political comic strip for Time Magazine's international editions. Feign's cartoons have appeared in many publications around the world and received several international awards.

Feign's cartoons and other writings have been compiled into 15 books. He has also produced animation for Walt Disney Television, Cartoon Network and others, and writes for various magazines in Hong Kong, where he lives with his wife and two children. His latest book, a collection of humorous essays titled Hongkongitis, was published in 2007.

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