Liao Bing-xiong was born in the city of Guangzhou in 1915. Before he started drawing comics, he worked as a teacher and art director. He drew antiwar manga during the Chinese-Japanese War, after which he joined a comics artists organization in Hong Kong. In the early 1950s he returned to China, where he drew many children's comics, such as 'Fairy Tale Comics' for magazine Little Friend Bimonthly.