Current location - Music Encyclopedia - Today in History - The development history of Japanese comics
The development history of Japanese comics
Historical research by American scholars shows that ancient cartoons were discovered in caves in South Asia hundreds (even thousands) years ago. In Buddhist temples, a Japanese story scroll left over from the12nd century, objects buried with people during the Yangshao culture in ancient China, and a large story scroll before the Reformation in Germany16th century all show the cultural footprint of early cartoons. Cartoon culturists agree that the origin of comics should start with totems such as stone carvings and cave murals. 17,18th century, British satirist Huo Jiasi officially unveiled the veil of "modern comics". As for chinese comic, some people say that comics were "introduced to China from abroad", which is correct, while others say that comics have existed in China for a long time. This is because China did have comics a long time ago. Huang Shen, a painter among the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, painted "Money makes the mare go" in18th century. Later, Luo Pin also painted "Ghost Fun Map" to satirize human inequality by ghosts. /kloc-Ming Xianzong in the 0/5th century also painted the Harmony Map. At that time, there was no such painting as comic book in the world. Later, no one knew that those paintings were cartoons. It was not until the early 20th century that China saw foreign (western) cartoons in newspapers and periodicals, and our cartoonists appeared. It can be seen that comics were introduced from abroad. In the seventh year of Shen, he published Shanghai Polk independently. He spread the western black and white techniques and expanded the subject matter of comics, which is an important page in the history of early comics. It was not until 12 of the Republic of China that Literature Weekly published "Kai Zi Comics" to introduce Japanese comics and describe family trivia and a certain level of society with simple and relaxed lines. His naive feelings are very popular with teenagers and intellectuals, which is also the beginning of China's adoption of the name "Comics". In the traditional Japanese sense, comics refer to jokes and interesting paintings. Contemporary comics mainly refer to new comics except the traditional one or four satirical cartoons. When the new cartoon was first introduced into China, it was called cartoon painting. The more common name in Japan is manga; ; Cartoons are often used in America. The advantage of the new cartoon is that it is drawn in a grid unit, expressing the author's thoughts and feelings and understanding of social life with pictures. Its style breaks the tradition and adopts a flexible form, much like a movie storyboard. The new cartoon directly uses pictures instead of lenses to convey information to readers. Therefore, the highest level of new comics is called film sense. Japan calls the cartoons before 1945 "prehistoric". After Meiji, comics penetrated into families and teenagers, and magazines and newspapers specializing in comics appeared one after another, but most of them were single-page and four-page comics. In the era of Japan's revival after World War II, cartoonists were liberated from the repressive atmosphere, and comic culture began to rise. During this period, a master appeared, and his appearance is a symbol of the rise of Japanese new comics. He is Osamu Tezuka, who is known as "the father of Japanese comics" and "the God of Japanese comics". Japanese critics commented on him like this: "Today's Japanese cartoons are headed by cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, who appeared like a comet in the scorched earth after the defeat of World War II. His dramatic content and visual expression have made many readers feel refreshed. " The rise of Japanese comics has gradually promoted the development of Southeast Asian comics. Korean, Singaporean, Malaysian and Taiwan Province provinces are among the best. The cartoons in these areas have gradually formed their own comic style from the initial imitation. Chinese comic's development is relatively slow, and it is still in the primary stage. It will take time to form its own style party. In the United States on the other side of the ocean, cartoons were born in the early 1960s, driven by cartoon interest. The genre of heroic comics has become the mainstream of American comics from the beginning, which marks the formation of the American comic system.