夏达，国内著名新锐漫画家，最早于《北京卡通》杂志发表短篇作品《成长》，毕业后赴京从事专业的漫画创作工作，曾于《北京卡通》《电漫》《故事》《漫友》等杂志发表过多部漫画作品，并在《北京卡通》杂志连载长篇漫画《米特兰的辰星》广受好评，也因此聚集了大批的读者群。其后，漫画作品《雪落无声》被改编成真人偶像网络剧。
夏达自小受古典文学影响，性格内向腼腆，作品画风细腻，古风浓郁，同时充满了对情感、世界和自然的人文关怀。具有同期少女漫画家少有的大气与沉静，被赞是中国漫画界最具实力的少女漫画家之一。获第一届中日青少年交流漫画节新人奖、第三届中国连环漫画短篇故事漫画优秀奖、第五届OACC金龙奖最佳故事漫画少女组金奖。
2009年2月，她的长篇漫画《子不语》得到日本集英社总编辑长茂木行雄和著名漫画编辑松井荣元的大力推荐，正式登陆日本，与日本顶级漫画大师同刊连载于日本顶级漫画杂志《Ultra Jump》，成为国内唯一一部在国内走红后打入日本顶级漫画杂志的原创漫画，夏达也成为内地漫画有此殊荣第一人。
2009年年底，漫画《子不语》在中日先后发行，国内短短数月加印四次，作品引起中国内地、日本、新加坡及台湾四大亚洲漫画市场连锁热销。
代表作品：《子不语》《哥斯拉不说话》
As one of the most famous new-generation comic artists in China, Xia Da published her earliest cartoon short story Growing Up in Beijing Cartoon. After graduation, Xia Da started her career in comics in Beijing and published dozens of cartoon works in various magazines such as Beijing Cartoon, Dian Man, Stories, Comic Friends, etc. Her cartoon series Midland Stars, published in Beijing Cartoon, won overwhelming recognition from the readers, many of whom later became her loyal fans. Snow Falls in Silence is also one of her most popular works, which adapted into a web drama.
Her artistic style, full of majestically ancient elements and humanitarian feelings towards sentiment, the world and the nature, is heavily influenced by her knowledge in Chinese classic literature and her introverted disposition. With the kind of grandeur and composure in her works rarely found in works by her contemporaries, Xia Da is recognized as the most talented and beautiful comic artist in China. She won the ‘Emerging Talent’ Award at the 1st Sino-Japan Adolescents Exchange Comic Festival, the Award of Excellence at the 3rd China Comics Short Stories Competition, and the first prize of the Young Girls group of the 5th OACC Golden Dragon Award competition.
In February, 2009, her comic work Zi Bu Yu was recommended strongly by Shigeki Yukio, chief editor of SHUEISHA, Japan and Matsui Eimoto, one of the world’s most reputed comic editors, and was introduced into Japan to appear together with comic works by several Japanese comic masters in the reputed magazine Ultra Jump, making Xia Da the first and only one comic author in mainland China whose work has won such prestigious honor from Japan.
At the end of 2009, Zi Bu Yu was published in China and later in the Japanese market, and soon became the best-seller in the comic markets of mainland China, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. The book was printed for four times within several months after it appeared in the domestic market.
Representative Works: Zi Bu Yu, The Silent Godzilla
