The GT Global Media Festival in 2018 presented Subversive Writing and Political Comics in China, featuring comic artist Li Xiaoguai. Born in 1974, Li Xiaoguai is an online grassroots comic artist. He set up his blog (www.blogtd.org) in 2006, and soon became one of China’s most influential bloggers with his distinctive style of blogging with comic drawings. His popularity increased as a cyber-celebrity during the movement to create new Chinese characters online in 2009. He is an icon of Internet culture and youth culture in contemporary China. The Georgia Institute of Technology welcomed the artist Li Xiaoguai to discuss his works on political and social commentary.
The event features a 15-minute short video to introduce the artist and his work: