Xã Xệ and Lý Toét
| Xã Xệ and Lý Toét | |
|---|---|
| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | Tự Lực Văn Đoàn (Self-Reliant Literary Group) |
| First appearance | 1932 |
| Created by | |
| Xã Xệ and Lý Toét | |
| Creative team | |
| Artist(s) | Nguyễn Tường Tam (Đông Sơn) Lê Minh Đức (Bút Sơn) |
| Creator(s) | |
Xã Xệ and Lý Toét are a satirical duo which became popular fiction characters in sketches published as caricatures through the columns of the modernist Vietnamese newspapers in Tonkin from the 1930s to the 1940s. Their influence went beyond the simple cartoon as they became archetypes of the transformations that Vietnam was going through, so much so that Lý Toét could be considered an "important figure in the urban world of 1930s Vietnam."