夏達，國內著名新銳漫畫家，最早于《北京卡通》雜誌發表短篇作品《成長》，畢業後赴京從事專業的漫畫創作工作，曾于《北京卡通》《電漫》《故事》《漫友》等雜誌發表過多部漫畫作品，並在《北京卡通》雜誌連載長篇漫畫《米特蘭的辰星》廣受好評，也因此聚集了大批的讀者群。其後，漫畫作品《雪落無聲》被改編成真人偶像網路劇。
夏達自小受古典文學影響，性格內向靦腆，作品畫風細膩，古風濃郁，同時充滿了對情感、世界和自然的人文關懷。具有同期少女漫畫家少有的大氣與沉靜，被讚是中國漫畫界最具實力的少女漫畫家之一。獲第一屆中日青少年交流漫畫節新人獎、第三屆中國連環漫畫短篇故事漫畫優秀獎、第五屆OACC金龍獎最佳故事漫畫少女組金獎。
2009年2月，她的長篇漫畫《子不語》得到日本集英社總編輯長茂木行雄和著名漫畫編輯松井榮元的大力推薦，正式登陸日本，與日本頂級漫畫大師同刊連載于日本頂級漫畫雜誌《Ultra Jump》，成為國內唯一一部在國內走紅後打入日本頂級漫畫雜誌的原創漫畫，夏達也成為內地漫畫有此殊榮第一人。
2009年年底，漫畫《子不語》在中日先後發行，國內短短數月加印四次，作品引起中國內地、日本、新加坡及台灣四大亞洲漫畫市場連鎖熱銷。
代表作品：《子不語》《哥斯拉不説話》
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
