Lin Jui-Chen was born to a fishing family in Nanfangao, Yilan County in 1951. Life in the fishing village was rather difficult. According to his younger brother Lin Jui-Fa’s account, the family’s fishing boat was short on crew members, and therefore the children had to get up at two or three in the morning to help load ice. In junior high, the children had to set out to sea on the boat every summer and winter vacation. Lin Jui-Chen was the eldest son, with an older sister and two younger brothers. He went to Nan An Elementary School, followed by Suao Junior High School and the Senior High department at Luodong High School. During childhood, as he exhibited innate artistic talents, his parents allowed him to develop his potential and had high expectations of him. “Because it felt like he was the kind that would bring honor to the family.”1 At Luodong High School, he was classmates with Yang Cheng-Chung and Liao Tsan-Cheng. At the time, because of Wang Pan-Yuan, art flourished at Luodong High School2, with at least one student being accepted into National Taiwan Normal University or National Taiwan Academy of Arts each year. In 1968, however, as the junior high and senior high departments were separated at Luodong High School, their art teacher Wang Pan-Youn was assigned to the junior high department. Moving on to their third year of senior high, the three lost the art teacher’s instruction and could only practice on their own. They often worked together to prepare for technical exams. Yang Cheng-Chung was admitted to the Sculpture Department of National Taiwan Academy of Arts the year he graduated from junior high. Lin Jui-Chen retook the entrance exam the following year and entered the Sculpture Department of  National Taiwan Academy of Arts. After the mandatory military service, Liao Tsan-Cheng entered the Western painting program at the Fine Arts Department of National Taiwan Academy of Arts. In fact, Lin had demonstrated his extraordinary talent in painting during his years at Luodong High School. As the comic book industry was experiencing a golden age, he was able to supplement his tuition by creating and submitting comics. He used the pen name "Lu Hong," (or according to his eldest sister, "Lin Yu-Chen"), which may have been inspired by Chen Hai-Hong (1918-1996), creator of The Youthful Swordsman, a popular comic book series at the time. Lin can be considered a contemporary of You Lung-Hui (1946-), whose comics were distributed by a comic book publisher, though all copies of his work have unfortunately been lost. As Yang Cheng-Chung recalls, Lin created many wuxia comics in private. Regarding his comics, he was an excellent writer, and his art style was bold and rugged. However, to pursue formal academic education, he had to quit his comics. Lin’s earliest pursuit in art, in addition to instruction by Wang Pan-Youn, was also inspired by Lieutenant Colonel Guo Yu-Zhen of the Combined Logistics Command in the discipline of traditional Chinese painting. Lieutenant Colonel Guo specialized in bird and flower painting, yet Lin was more interested in figure painting. Thus, he practices woman figure painting in Guo’s dorm room. During that period, when resources for art education was relatively scarce, aside from teachers, a student could only reference art textbooks or the precious art albums from Kodansha Ltd., imported from Japan, and learn through trial and error. ......