Talk:The World of Lily Wong

Removal of unsourced claim

I have removed the text " Feign's decision to run a series of strips that had been scheduled to run in the South China Morning Post just prior to the strip's cancellation may have been instrumental in its cancellation. The strips in question involved Lily finding out that her grandmother was a local Chinese Communist Party official in Guangdong, and re-establishing contact with her after many years." as this is not given any source, and I am informed by Mr. Feign that it is without any basis in fact. If the contributor has a source for this claim it could be mentioned, but only as a claim about the reasons for cancellation, not as a statement of fact. Clevelander96 (talk) 01:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I was the one who made that particular statement. As it happens, I own most of the "Lily Wong" strip collections, including the one that contains the strips in question. The sequence that was running just before the webcomic's cancellation was in the last few pages of the book Banned in Hong Kong (Featuring: The Cartoons You Weren't Supposed To See), and I had expected that Mr. Feign would continue as he had planned to before. In the book, the original pencils for the strips that were coming up were included, and they did include Lily and her husband and brother travelling into Guangzhou and locating her Communist grandmother. The strips were deeply un-flattering to the Communists (they end up condemned to be shot because Rudy says that he's surprised that his grandmother isn't a "killer thug, like that butthead Li Peng.")

I was unaware that Mr. Feign had denied that the content of his upcoming strip had caused the webcomic's cancellation, but I must, of course, bow to his statement. Nonetheless, I do continue to have my own suspicions on the subject. Technomad (talk) 05:17, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, I have Banned in Hong Kong on my shelves as well, and it could be noteworthy that Feign was re-using elements of that previously banned storyline -- but the claim that there was some renewed outside pressure or censorship would, I think, require a source. The statement on the web-strip's page says "for various reasons" and for now it seems better not to speculate unless there's some concrete additional information; we have no way of knowing what the next web panels would have been. I'm sorry to see Lily Wong end again, though! Clevelander96 (talk) 11:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)