Man Tsang

Man Tsang, or Man僧, is a Hong Kong artist who made the manga adaptation of the 2017 novel Thrawn by Timothy Zahn. Tsang's Thrawn: The Manga, Vol. 1 was published by Panini on May 12, 2026 in the United Kingdom.

According to Tsang, Disney invited him to bid for illustrating the manga based on his work on his Hong Kong comic 0課特工 The ZEROS. According to Tsang's agent, the project's first drafts were made two years before the manga's announcement at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 18, 2025. Upon reading Zahn's novel, Tsang realized that it would be a challenge to draw Thrawn given the nature of his character as a calculated man involved in political intrigue and scheming, whereas manga typically show characters either being extremely angry or simply content and smiling. Thrawn's character design was revised over three months, with Tsang's balancing act between his day job and the demands of Disney and Lucasfilm having been challenging, according to his agent, who hoped that the world would recognise Tsang's talents and Hong Kong for producing such a distinguished comic artist.

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