Yousulan's is also good, but his painting style is old-fashioned and girlish.
The Development History of Gulf Comics
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In Asia and even the world, the advantages of Japanese comics are obvious. The efforts of Japanese cartoonists for half a century have also won the reputation of "Comic Kingdom" for Japan, and Taiwanese cartoons have also grown up under its influence.
First, the development of early Taiwanese comics
The content of early Taiwanese cartoons basically reflected the social reality, such as the gap between the rich and the poor, soaring prices, corrupt officials and so on, and cartoons almost played a positive social function.
1, the rise of the first generation of local cartoons in Taiwan Province Province
1927, it is said that he and Chen drew a political cartoon of the governor of Taiwan Province standing in the provincial capital city in Taiwan Province People's Daily, and were detained by the police for 20 days. Some people think that the freedom and degree of politics can be seen from cartoons. For example, the early cartoons in Taiwan Province Province were mostly political cartoons or cartoons with strong national consciousness. It is worth mentioning that Hu, the first cartoonist in Taiwan Province Province, named Ji Longsheng, published the first set of Ji Longsheng cartoons at 1935.
1945, the first comprehensive magazine, Xinxin Monthly, was composed of four young people with strong national consciousness and enthusiastic culture: Chen Jiapeng, Wang Huaye, Jia Hong and Hong Chaoming. They are undoubtedly the pioneers of the native cartoon generation in Taiwan Province Province. Eight issues of Xinxin Monthly were published, which ended due to funding problems. Almost at the same time as the monthly magazine Xinxin, Wang Chaozong's long cartoons were published, especially the first episode of the Beijing-language cartoon "Biography of the Water Tiger", which was the first border comic after the recovery of Taiwan Province. This is a cultural transformation phenomenon in the early stage of recovery. A year later, he published a cartoon about Three Kingdoms and The Story Of Diu Sim, as well as other cartoons, such as Little swordsman and Dream of Banana Fan. He is the first cartoonist in Taiwan Province Province.
Newspapers are the cradle of early comics.
Early cartoons were concentrated in newspapers, mainly political cartoons. From 65438 to 0949, cartoonists Liang Youming and Liang founded the first large-scale comic publication Pictorial Times. The three issues include international political cartoons, social cartoons, humorous cartoons and cartoons. Besides the Liang brothers, the main painters are He, He, Luo. However, because it lost 20,000 yuan (the currency value at that time) in less than one year, it was incorporated into the Central Daily News. It was later closed at 1955. 1950, new life newspaper opened a full-page new life cartoon, which was later expanded to two editions. The second edition added a lot of humorous cartoons, which formed two cartoon camps with the original political cartoons.
China Labor was founded in June 1950 1 1, which has a long history and is also the issue that the magazine pays most attention to comics. The early stage not only accommodated the most comic works, but also recruited the most comic writers. I did my best to send tuxedos for early comics, which promoted and had a long-term impact.
1953 10 folk pictorial, a large cartoon publication, was founded, published by Zhang Wufeng and edited by Li Jinghong. In addition to Liu Chengjun's current affairs cartoons, Liang Naiyu's social cartoons, Wu Tingbiao's folk cartoons and Hu Sanyuan's How to Draw Cartoons, there are also Niu Ge's Biography of the Four-eyed Frog and Wang Xiaochi's The Yellow Woman in each comic issue. In each issue, the collective creation of free submission theme is announced in advance, and a cartoonist performs different performances.
On March 25th, 1957, the first comic book exhibition "North Zhongshan Hall" sponsored by Chinese Artists Association of Taiwan Province Province opened, with an unprecedented audience, newspapers scrambling to report and literary writers commenting on it, which was unanimously regarded as a successful exhibition. On the whole, most of the above comic works are quite instructive. Although relaxed, it does not lose the writer's desire to join the WTO, or ridicule, or warn, or educate people, or express national feelings. No cartoon is as pure a story as a popular cartoon.
3. The prosperity of children's comics and the low tide of comics.
195 1 year later, children's cartoons began to be popular in newspapers, such as Niu Xiaomei, Liu Dingding and Lu's Biography of Heroes of Chinese Children. In order to attract readers, the newspaper publishes comic strips every day. For example, space is limited, not as good as magazine publishing, and the story has a strong inertia and the same effect. As a result, children's cartoon publications flourished, among which there were many well-known cartoon idols, such as Ye Hongjia's Zhuge Shiro series, Chen Dingguo's Lv Siniang, Liu Xingxian's brother A, and his aunt, which left many childhood memories for the teenagers at that time. During the 1950s and 1960s, due to the deviation in the implementation of the cartoon censorship system, many cartoonists stopped writing or jumped ship. In addition, the popularity of foreign comics at this time has caused the low tide of the comic book industry and the gap in talent training. Later, Japanese comics invaded on a large scale, so people born after 50' s and 60' s were used to reading Japanese comics, and modern comics were mostly created because of Japanese style.
Second, the dark period of Taiwanese comics
The symptom of the decline of comics lies in the mixed quality of publications, which leads to government management. The government entrusts the National Compilation Museum with the right to censor cartoons strictly. Every revision or ban has changed the original glory structure. Most cartoonists have switched careers or closed down. Taiwan comics opened with rented copies officially entered the dark period after 1970. What followed was the 20-year piracy history of Taiwanese comics. ...
In fact, it is not objective to say that it is piracy, because it is very common for the publishing industry in the period of 1975 to print crops without diplomatic relations, because there was no concept of copyright at that time. From Comic King magazine to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which entered the market for the first time in 36-format deluxe edition, the history of pirated comics officially opened. The version has also changed from the establishment of the production line to the reproduction of mass production. Every time there is a change, there will be a monopoly. Almost all manuscript sources are controlled by several publishing houses, among which Dongli and Daran have the highest share and the fiercest competition. Dongli still had a 75% share in its heyday, which shows the fact that the publishing industry was monopolized at that time. In fact, it is also because of the incomplete relationship of the publishing law. Dongli Publishing House also published some educational cartoons in the early days, but few people paid attention to them and were almost squeezed out of the comic industry. Fortunately, a set of "Good Boy" sells well all over Taiwan, and it also has a unique management of Japanese comics. From Oriental Comic Weekly to New Youth Express, the comic industry seems to be the leader of the industry.
Third, the rise of local cartoons in Taiwan Province Province.
Although pirated cartoons were rampant in Taiwan Province Province in 1970s and 1980s, many local cartoonists persisted in their ideals in this difficult period. Adhere to the publication of Taiwanese cartoonists' works in the times, and start to run Joy from 198 1, and use the wounds of Chen Uen and Cai Zhizhong to open up the vitality of local writers' creation. In addition, the comic challenge held by China Times has gradually attracted newcomers such as Mai and Sun Jiayu. however
198 1 year later, comic magazines began to be published one after another, such as Ma Jun Hamburg, Chinese culture weekend comics, Sunday comics, comic show, comic theater and so on. During this period, many cartoonists appeared, such as Zhang Jingmei from Hamburg, You Sulan from Weekend, Zeng, Lin and Artu from Week. Due to the influence of piracy, the whole animation industry is naturally influenced by Japanese style. Most cartoonists born after 1966 were baptized by Japanese and accepted the cartoon expression like Osamu Tezuka.
At this time, news commentary cartoons began to rise. 198 1 year later, comic commentary comics also found development space in Taiwan Province province, where the economy is booming. Almost every newspaper has one or two professional cartoonists, such as Coco of China Times, Self-reliant Fisherman and Luo, Lao Qionghe of Minsheng Daily. Everyone's position is very clear, and the paintings are very spicy. Once the newspaper is banned, they can all stand up.
While commenting on cartoons, with the prosperity of the newspaper industry, the non-news competition among newspapers has also become fierce 198 1. Ao's Wulongyuan was used in the middle of the year, and the prospect of four-grid comics was promising, and major newspapers adopted it one after another, such as Coco's Two Horses, Lao Qiong's Colorful Fields Open, Zhu Deyong's Another Cannon and so on. Zhu Deyong's Wound has been published in English in Hongkong, South Korea and Singapore, while Xiao Yanzhong's Cong Cong Tong Xin is a gesture to enter the international market. Character modeling and cartoon specifications are serialized for foreign newspapers. Four-grid comics are the most international type with simple form and few dialogues.
199 1 Just as the pirated market copied Japanese comics by adding 36 books and clothes, the market was in short supply, which also warned the arrival of the era of official authorization "copyright". At that time, there were many popular cartoons published by various organizations, and the Japanese cartoons published in Taiwan Province Province almost became a miniature version of the Japanese cartoons published in Taiwan Province Province. Because each publisher is familiar with the market operation in the era of piracy, it quickly occupied the market space after the piracy receded. At present, Dongli and Daran still have the highest share, both of which are done according to the editing direction of Japanese cartoons, and the newly rising Taiwanese cartoonists are the mainstream in the market. Gradually, there are autograph sessions of great writers in comics, and there are also comic development for different ages because of the age of comics, such as "Teenage Tip", "Teenagers for Children" and "Times for Adults". 1992 After the copyright began, the publishing house began to consider how many cartoon talents it could have, and began to seek or cultivate new cartoonists, such as All the rage, Miss Li Mianzhi's Sex, The Little Monk of Lai Youxian and other practical masters. And the market melons are all new writers and have a good reputation.
With the maturity of Taiwanese cartoonists, many wounds have gradually entered the international stage. For example, Chen Uen successfully landed in Japan with his painting style and serialized cartoons in Japan, which impressed the four little dragons in Han Xing, Taiwan Province. It is understood that copyrights in Germany and France have also been sold; Lin became popular with the series "Young Guns", and the French copyright has been negotiated for products ranging from paper products to animated videos.
In short, the growth of Taiwanese comics is like the process of cultural and economic growth in Taiwan Province Province, which is full of thorns along the way, but the overall efforts of Taiwanese comics are still worthy of recognition.