Cartoon News Is The Future

PhysOrg.com, a news service covering science, tech, and business, takes a look at the man behind the phenomenon that is Apple Daily.

Jimmy Lai
, 63, runs Next Media. Next Media produces Apple Daily, “a must read in Hong Kong, a muck-racking tabloid with a peculiar mix of celebrity gossip, crime news and hard-driving political coverage punctuated by an anti-Beijing stance that has earned it a ban in mainland China.

“But many loyal readers are particularly drawn to the graphic cartoons alongside the text stories, depicting a host of gruesome events such as triad hits, sexual assaults and horrific accidents.”

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