What is comics

What is comics~

To talk about comics, we must first talk about the origin and artistic characteristics of comics, and then talk about the creation methods.

The drawing form of comics has been around for a long time. When a painter paints, sometimes he feels something in his heart and wants to say it, and then he paints it. As early as the Ming Dynasty (1366-1644) in my country, Li Shida made a joke about the hunchback and drew "Santuo Picture", which is a cartoon. But the name "comics" didn't exist yet.

What people say, they always want to emphasize it. What they say is exaggerated, and it looks funny when drawn. This forms two artistic characteristics of comics: one is that it is spoken, that is, it has a language function; the other is humor, that is, funny, humorous or ironic, and humor and irony are also funny.

Our country has been in the feudal era for a long time, and people's speech is restricted, so comics cannot be popular, so they are rare. It was not until the end of the 17th century that Britain got rid of the constraints of feudal forces, and printing technology developed rapidly. British painters began to use paintings to comment on current events. Newspaper offices printed these paintings in newspapers and spread them widely through newspapers, attracting readers' attention. This kind of painting became a special type of painting art. Later, some people Call it CARTOON, which is transliterated as "cartoon" and also translated as "comic". At the same time, a professional cartoonist called CARTOONIST also appeared in the UK. Our country only saw foreign cartoons at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the emperor had just been overthrown, and cartoons began to become popular, and Chinese cartoonists such as He Jianshi, Huang Wennong and Feng Zikai appeared.

Because comics are interesting, cartoonists also make up little jokes and draw them. A joke has a plot of characters' activities, and there is more than one picture drawn. There are four, five or six or seven pictures, which are connected to form one picture. We call it a "comic strip", but it is still called a "cartoon" in Britain and the United States. Later, the comic strips could also be made into animated films, which were naturally also called "cartoons". So those comic strips made into animations are also called cartoons.

The comic strips are similar to the comic strips in our country. The comic strips are printed into books, commonly known as "little people's books". For example, the stories in "Feng Shen Bang" or "Water Margin" are not required to be funny and funny. It cannot be used for comment, as it is completely different from the nature of comics.

Newspapers use the language function of cartoons to make cartoons about current affairs, which become a form of commentary and are published on the news page; they also use the humorous nature of cartoons to publish ridiculous humorous drawings on supplements to attract people. readers to expand circulation.

The comic strips do not have these two functions of comics. Newspapers will not use so many pictures of comic strips to comment on them. ?Patellar 鏏 ? Gray Huan 錌 ? Playful ring ? Protruding Huanshu ?brgt; In the 1980s, Japan issued a large number of comic strips and printed them into volumes and introduced them to our country. They call this kind of painting "cartoon" or "manga" according to the British and American names, confusing the two different types of paintings. Later, our country took another name and called this kind of comic strips "animation" because some of the paintings also used comic modeling methods, which were exaggerated and had comic characteristics.

In fact, in the United Kingdom and the United States, there is still a difference between comics and comic strips. Looking at the "Encyclopedia of Comics" published in the United Kingdom and the United States, people who draw comics are called cartoonists, but people who draw comic strips are not called this way.

What are comics? From the scribblings of "pediatrics" to Picasso's "Guernica", some people seem to call them comics. As an independent art form, comics lack the rigor and norms of other arts, coupled with the lag in theoretical criticism, resulting in its long-term separation from the mainstream of art. Therefore, some people call comics "fringe art" and "Artistic Edge".

However, the surge of modernism that originated at the end of the 19th century, while changing all aspects of social life, was also subtly impacting many aspects of comics. In particular, Surrealist artists such as Magritte, Delvaux, and Chirico, with their absurd and unexpected works, coincide with the paradoxical creative principles of comics. In this sense, many modern works of art unintentionally serve as the "ivory tower" of comics.

In recent decades, in addition to the traditional functions of comics to criticize current ills and entertain the public, some cartoonists with more avant-garde ideas have begun to actively explore the road to modernization of comics. Especially in the years after the end of World War II, many knowledgeable people in the comics industry imitated the exhibition mechanisms of other arts and established a number of international comic exhibitions and competitions, and invited accomplished artists and critics to discuss comics. Survival and development under new historical conditions, this kind of exhibition dares to break the old thinking of comics, affirms the initiative of comics in embodying individual spiritual values, and shows the trend of comics moving closer to the mainstream of contemporary art.

Pioneering comics - there is still no clear definition internationally. It generally refers to the fringe art form between traditional comics and avant-garde art, or it is a form of art catalyzed by contemporary avant-garde art. This new comic genre emphasizes the exploration of values ????and aesthetic orientations, and is "subversive" to traditional comics.

The creation of avant-garde comics in my country started very late. Only a few cartoonists got involved in the 1990s, but their works soon began to take on the characteristics of avant-garde comics and focused on the improvement of creative concepts. Exploration and comparison with avant-garde art. However, because its development is restricted by various conditions, it has not been able to form a large creative group and spread widely. However, the strong trend of modernism in art is strongly impacting people's traditional concepts, and avant-garde comics will definitely be understood and accepted by more and more people.