# Alfonso Wong, creator of Old Master Q comics passed away

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**Created:** [January 8, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alfonso-wong-creator-of-old-master-q-comics-passed-away/776671 "2017-01-08T22:05:10Z")\
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My mom just read in the local Chinese newspaper that the creator of [Old Master Q](http://www.oldmasterq.com/) comics, [Alfonso Wong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Wong) died on New Years day.

I’d forgotten how much I loved those comics as a kid, browsing through them at the Chinese bookstores in Flushing, NY while my parents got our weekly groceries. I never learned to read Chinese, so they really were the only books I could “read” while my older sisters checked out the text heavy mangas.

As a kid growing up on Long Island, having arrived from Taiwan at the age of 5 in 1980, the setting of 1960s-1970s life in Hong Kong depicted in the comics was an odd mix of something foreign yet sometimes more familiar than what I was adapting to in America.