Participate in the Northern Expedition of the Comics Club

The establishment of the Comics Association organized, mobilized, trained and grew the second generation of cartoonists. These young cartoonists were active in thinking, mostly revolutionary, and had strong creative power. This led to the second climax of cartoon creation.

When the comic club was established, it was the time when the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang cooperated for the first time and the Northern Expeditionary Army achieved successive victories. When the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Shanghai, Huang Wennong and Ye Qianyu from the Cartoon Society put on their military uniforms with enthusiasm and joined the National Revolutionary Army. Huang Wennong served as the chief of the Art Section of the Naval Political Department affiliated to the National Revolutionary Army and the head of the Art Section of the Songhu Police Department. Ye Qianyu cooperated with the work to carry out publicity for the Northern Expedition Revolutionary War. At that time, facing the eyeing gunboats of the imperialist powers parked in the Huangpu River, they fearlessly wrote large wooden slogans with cartoons of "Down with Imperialism" and hung them by the Huangpu River in Wusongkou. This was a kind of What a rare revolutionary spirit! Later, British writer George Bernard Shaw praised their move and said: "Young Chinese painters sit on the muzzle of British cannons and dare to curse." At that time, Huang Wennong created a number of cartoons that exposed the collusion between the reactionary warlords of Beiyang and imperialism. For example, the painting "A Yao Exchanges Old Goods for Copper Coins" (1927) depicts an "imperialist" selling rags, picking up some old guns and cannons, and soliciting business from the warlords. This clearly reveals that the imperialists are Chinese In essence, they are supporters of reactionary warlords. At the same time, Lu Shaofei from the Cartoon Society joined the National Revolutionary Army in Nanjing, worked in the General Political Department, and also used comics to promote the Northern Expedition.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup and massacred communists and revolutionary masses. Faced with the sudden change, the cartoonist artists showed a clear revolutionary stance. Huang Wennong, Ye Qianyu, and Lu Shaofei immediately withdrew from the National Revolutionary Army that had been usurped by Chiang Kai-shek. At this time, the Comics Association decided to launch its journal "Shanghai Comics".