From mass-produced children's entertainment, during the last decade comics in Taiwan have become a core field of cultural production intensively supported by the state, due to this medium's perceived contribution to defining a local identity and building Taiwan's soft power. One of the most salient outcomes of this official emphasis on comics has been an unprecedented proliferation of production, with many new works quite explicitly designed as attempts to define Taiwan. This study will look at such recent productions - three works by Jian Jiacheng 簡嘉誠 published between 2018 and 2023, which commemorate Taiwanese-language cinema culture. All three were commissioned by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and published by Gaea. I will begin with a few remarks on recent practices building new institutional networks, which involve different media forms and cultural organizations that employ comics for new purposes, and publishers such as Gaea serving as intermediaries between these institutions and individual artists. These comments will be followed by an analysis of comics contents, covering the following themes: gender, (Confucian) lineage and community.