From his start with cartoons in high school to his angry abandonment of the field in middle age, Chiu spent more than two decades working as a cartoonist, publishing nearly 100 volumes of cartoons. At a time when Taiwan was awash with translated and copied cartoons, Chiu never stopped creating "cartoons of the native soil," which mostly described the lives of regular people in Taiwan.
從高中開始發表漫畫到中年憤而放棄漫畫創作，前後二十幾年的漫畫生涯，出版近百本漫畫繪本，在當時一片翻譯、抄襲的風潮下，邱錫勳始終堅持「本土漫畫」，以生活在台灣這塊土地的小人物故事為主題。