蔡志忠，一九四八年出生于彰化，四岁半立志这一生都要画图，从此心无旁骛地朝漫画家道路前进。十五岁时，蔡志忠将作品寄至台北集英社，接到了录取电话后，他带着两百五十元台币北上，成为职业漫画家，四十多年来笔耕不辍。期间以多本中国典籍漫画征服书市，创下总销量五千万的佳绩，通行世界60多个国家，阅读人口上亿。二〇一〇年，他发表了闭关十年的心血结晶《东方宇宙三部曲》，将画笔的力量延伸至物理数学，以东方思维重新解读物理公论，并以此书入围第三十五届金鼎奖。 蔡志忠擅长以简单而富有禅意的线条塑造人物，藉此阐述对于中国经典名著、哲学思维以及佛理的独到见解，在幽默之中，带领读者体会强大的经典世界。
Tsai Chin-chung, was born in 1948 in Changhua. He is one of Taiwan's most famous cartoonists. When he was four years old and a half, he aimed for painting. Since then he devoted himself to cartoonist’s career singlemindedly. When he was 15 years old, Tsai Chin-chung delivered his creation to Taipei Shueisha. After a call for admission, he went to Taipei with only 250 N.T. Over the past forty years, he never stoped painting. Nearly 50 years old, Tsai Chin-chung has achieved something unusual for a modern cartoonist. He has been extraordinarily successful at changing Chinese literature and philosophy into humorous comic stories. His prolific work makes Chinese classics known to thousands of people. In his career, a lot of Chinese Classics comics have been published in more than 60 countries and regions in multiple languages. More than 50 million copies are read by billions of people all around the world. In 2010, he published his ten-years painstaking work “The Orient Universe Trilogy”, explaining physical verdict of the masses by an oriental way in comics. And his name is shortlisted in the Thirty-fifth Jinding Award with this book. In December 8, 1999, Holland The Prince Claus Awards his cartoons were cited for "no parallel recreation in history for changing Chinese literature and philosophy into humorous comic stories".Throughout his decades of painting career, we know he deserves.