The Central Panel — Chen Hung-Yao: Creative Journey
1964/07/22 - Born in Taipei City.
1969 - The moon landing.
1972/07/22 - The birth of Chen I-Tao of Taipei .
1978 - Started junior high school. Chen Hung-Yao realized that his creative work improved every day, but exams took up all his time. He decided to give up his studies. He had originally hoped to create animated features. When he found himself struggling to capture classmates’ movements in a single frame, he began to study comic art.
1981 - Published his first comic work, Doomsday. In the same year, he received Honorable Mention at the Xiao Mi Comic Award for Best Newcomer and began working at Xiao Mi Comic Weekly, contributing various works.
1983 - 1983 Commissioned to adapt Chang I’s screenplay Magic BMX into a comic (first edition published in 1983 by Yin Shih Man Publishing).
1983 - Published Machine．Man in the comic fan magazine Friends of Comics, which he considered his first work to achieve dynamic storyboarding.
1983 - Conceptualized The Legend of Yi-Tao, and created the first design for the character Chen Yi-Tao.
1983 - Invited to a long-term serialization in Encyclopedia Culture’s comic weekly, and debuted The Legend of Yi-Tao, which already featured story plots of time travel. The serialization was interrupted due to military service.
1984 - Started military service.
1986 - Serialized Ouch! Big West in the semi-monthly comic magazine Fun.
1987 - Fun was revamped, and Ouch! Big West was discontinued midway.
1987 - Worked in animation layout for half a year.
Created children’s illustrations, newspaper illustrations, comic strips, and four-panel and single-panel serial comics.
1989 - Comic weekly Sunday was launched. Launched the production of The Legend of Yi-Tao for the third time.
1990/01 - In issue 46 of Sunday, The Legend of Yi-Tao officially debuted to readers.
1990 - Attended the San Diego Comic-Con, USA.
1991 - Sunday ceased publication, The Legend of Yi-Tao was discontinued. Chen Hung-Yao became unemployed and took on odd jobs to survive.
1992 - The first edition of The Legend of Yi-Tao by China Times Publishing.
1992 - Self-funded the production of Red Fox as a proposal to the industry. The work was considered too detailed to sustain serialization, leading to no publisher investing in it.
1993 - China Times Publishing reissued The Legend of Yi-Tao.
1993 - Transitioned to illustration as his main profession. His works appeared in various newspapers, magazines, and books. He also started collaborating with the domestic gaming industry by designing covers and posters.
1995 - Serialized single-panel comic Lovely Animals.
1997 - China Times Publishing issued Lovely Animals.
1997 - Started illustrating the international edition of PLAYBOY magazine.
2000 - Participated in a video game production.
2001 - Designed poster and panda mascot props for Is the Invisible Panda Home? by If Kids’ Theater.
2001 - Illustrated the book jackets of the Chinese editions of The End of the Affair, The Quiet American, The Comedians, and Brighton Rock by Graham Greene.
