Comix Home Base

Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island


Housed in repurposed heritage buildings, this cultural cluster is entirely themed on the medium of comics and anime. A brief ground-floor display introduces Hong Kong's own comic-book history, from wartime classics (Renjian Pictorial) and colonial-era satires (Old Master Q), through Ma Wing-shing's martial-arts comics, to the pensive creations of younger artists such as Chi Hoi.

Upstairs you'll find stores selling kidult 'urban vinyl', varied art exhibits and a graphic-novel reading room (free) with a fair selection of English and French titles, from Stan Lee's Marvel stories to Art Spiegelman's Maus.


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Nearby Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island attractions

1. F22 Foto Space

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One for shutterbugs, this ambitious exhibition space over two floors of a commercial building is a shrine to the golden age of film photography and its…

2. Central Plaza

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Central Plaza, one of Hong Kong’s tallest buildings, looks garish with its glass skin of three colours – gold, silver and terracotta. It's possible to…

3. Blue House Cluster

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A rare heritage protection success story, the 1920s Blue House is one of Hong Kong's last surviving wooden tenement buildings. The graceful, four-storey…

4. Hong Kong Cemetery

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Crowded and cosmopolitan, dead Hong Kong is no different from the breathing city. Tombstones jostle for space at this Christian cemetery (c 1845) located…

5. Southorn Playground

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This unspectacular-looking sports ground is in fact the social hub of old Wan Chai, offering a cross-section of life in the hood at any time of the day…

6. Hong Kong Racing Museum

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Hong Kong Racing Museum showcases the celebrated trainers, jockeys and horses that have thrilled the crowds at Happy Valley over the years. The British…

7. Old Wan Chai Post Office

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This tiny colonial-style building served as the Wan Chai post office between 1915–92. These days it's a resource centre operated by the Environmental…

8. Pak Tai Temple

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A short stroll up Stone Nullah Lane takes you to a majestic Taoist temple built in 1863 to honour a god of the sea, Pak Tai. The temple, the largest on…