Xia Da

Xia Da is a reminder to me that comics talent travels. She's a Chinese manhua artist, and the data oddly labels her American, which I'd disregard. What draws me in is the reception: her work, especially Zi Bu Yu and Chang Ge Xing, was praised for a classical, almost painterly style, and it landed well in Japan, a notoriously hard market for outside artists to crack. Five million copies sold by 2018 tells me this wasn't a cult success but a genuine commercial one. I find it telling that she earned respect on both sides of a sometimes prickly cultural border purely on the strength of her linework.

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Name (English)

Xia Da

Name (Japanese)

夏達

Reading

か・たつ

Born

April 4, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Huaihua, People's Republic of China

Occupation

comics artist / manhuajia

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

University

Changsha University of Science and Technology

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xia%20Da
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%8F%E9%81%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3883261

Tags

• comics artist
• manhuajia

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.