The Japanese cartoon circle has always regarded Zheng Jueyou (1053- 1 140), a bird-feather monk in the 2nd century, as the ancestor, and his painting "Birds and Animals" has been listed as four national treasures by the Japanese government. /kloc-in the 0/2nd century, scroll painting became popular, and the birth of various scroll paintings gradually formed a unique painting form in Japan. /kloc-At the beginning of the Edo period in the 0/7th century, the slender bird feather painting (a painting school named after bird feather monk Zheng) painted by artists in Kyoto and Osaka successfully created a new era of ukiyo-e painting style. 1760, the famous Japanese ukiyo-e painter Takeshi Kitazaki first used the word manga in his paintings. His "Kitazaki Comics" is world-famous, and even brought shock to European painting circles.

186 1 year, British cartoonist Charles Wagman went to Japan as a special correspondent for London Pictorial News. The following year, he founded a comic book about 10 pages-"Japan Clumsy". This publication, which focuses on current affairs cartoons and custom cartoons, has brought a big impact to the Japanese cartoon industry. 2 1 year later, during his stay in Japan, Giorgio Bigo, a French cartoonist, published magazines such as Tales of Tuan Tuan and satirical comic collection TOBAE. These two European cartoonists have made great contributions to the innovation of Japanese cartoons, and their styles have influenced a new generation of Japanese cartoonists.

—the new comics of Meiji Restoration—

From 65438 to 0900, comic news, Tokyo Poker, current affairs comics, Osaka comic news, etc. Established one after another. These new cartoons, which imitated the critical tone, sense of humor and modeling of western cartoons, made the cartoon fashion at that time. During the Meiji period (1870-1911), modern Japanese comics began to rise, and Lotte Kitazawa, a famous Japanese comic history, established modern Japanese comics on the basis of his ancestors. 1906, Toshimi Kitazawa founded the first Japanese cartoon "Tokyo Genie", which marked the beginning of modern Japanese comics. During the Taisho period (19 12- 1925), Yiping, a cartoonist, created story cartoons and became famous in one fell swoop. Since then, story comics have become popular. 19 12 years, 10 cartoonists with Okamoto as the center established the "Tokyo Comic Club" and held the first comic book exhibition in 19 15 years. Since then, an average of 1-2 exhibitions will be held every year. Under their leadership, the Japanese cartoon industry in Taisho era was quite active.

Humor and idols—

1923, Japan's first anime idol was born. He is a character in the Adventures of A Zheng published by Wahima Seiichi in Asahi Club magazine. A year later, the comic master Ma Shengfeng's humorous long cartoon "Careless Dad" published in Baozhi News caused a great sensation and brought great encouragement to people who had experienced the Tokyo earthquake. Since then, humorous cartoons have appeared in newspapers and publications in large numbers. Because of its high popularity, more and more cartoonists began to devote themselves to the creation of this type of cartoons, and the lineup of humorous cartoons began to grow day by day.

1924, Li Zheng Matsutaro became the new president of Yomiuri shimbun. In order to challenge the new market and win more readers, he set up a cartoon department specially, and recruited Ma Shengfeng, Tian Ao Xiachuan Huxi, Zuoxing Shimizu, Tsunami III, Yanagi Makoto Zhengmeng and others, and published a four-page color page appendix in June of the same year. In the early years of Showa (1925), the popularity of comics reached its peak, and serial comics gradually became a new model of Japanese comics.

After 1925, romantics and proletarians began to rise, and their painting style and stories became a major feature of the cartoon industry at that time. 1926-1936, juvenile comics began to glow. Suiho Tagawa's Black Tramp and Teru Shimada's Adventures in the Mountain have become the classics of Japanese teenagers all over the country. Blade master and Little Alfred by Koichi Yokoyama not only won the love of teenagers, but also attracted a large number of adults to read them.

With the growth of the comic creation team, the Japanese comic industry has ushered in the era of comic reorganization, and cartoonists have set up groups. 1932, 20 cartoonists, including Hideo Kondo, Yukio Sugura and Ryuichi Yokoyama, founded the "New Cartoon School". Since then, many like-minded cartoonists have begun to hold a group, and the Japanese cartoon industry has shown a situation of letting a hundred flowers blossom.

The era of new comics—

From 65438 to 0945, due to the lack of paper, the number of comics published began to decrease. From 1946 to 1950, the new values after the war disrupted the previous tradition and order, and various cartoons came into being. At this time, a master appeared in the Japanese comic circle, which had a far-reaching impact on Japanese comics in the future. This is Osamu Tezuka. 1946, Osamu Tezuka's "New Treasure Island" appeared, which was the first step for Japanese comics to become modern mainstream comics. He applied the technique of film to comics, which brought revolutionary changes to the comic image.

1947, the comic boy was founded and became the cradle of today's comic masters. The authors who have published works in this journal are F. Fujio Fujiko, Fujiko, Shotaro Ishinomori, Fujio Akatsuka, Leiji Matsumoto and Osamu Tezuka.

1968 (Showa 43) was first published in July, and Ying Ji Social Weekly Youth Leap was first published, and juvenile comics began to develop rapidly. Today, "Young JUMP" has become one of the giants in the Japanese comic industry to produce excellent comics. During this period, Sugimoto's absurd cartoons and Taizo Yokoyama's social commentary cartoons expanded the types of cartoons. Osamu Tezuka's early three outstanding sci-fi works, Pre-Century, Metropolis and Future World, also appeared at this time. In addition, Tetsuji Yamagata's Young King and Tetsuji Fukushima's Devil in the Desert further improved the comic genre.

—the age of animation—

In 1950s, Japan gradually recovered from the post-war chaos, and Japanese comics began to develop further. From 65438 to 0959, magazines such as Talk Club, Youth MAGEZINE and Primary School, Youth Sunday were founded one after another. In the same year, the Tokyo TV Tower was completed, and television began to influence the growth of young people in the new era.

With the rapid development of TV entertainment, many popular comic works have been adapted into animation, and the success of animation has also promoted the development of comics. Nowadays, Japanese cartoon has become two inseparable fields. An excellent cartoon is bound to be animated, and a popular cartoon will also find a cartoonist to draw cartoons for it.

Rapid development—

1965-1975 is a year of rapid development of Japanese comics. Various types of comics began to draw a formal line, and various magazines suitable for different types of comics were founded one after another. Major magazines began to publish comic magazines suitable for primary and secondary school students, high school students, college students and even people from all walks of life, and comics began to attract social attention.

1964, the Japanese cartoonist association was born because of the powerful appeal of the core figure of the "new cartoonist group". The purpose of the Japanese Cartoonist Association is to safeguard the rights and interests of its members and make contributions to culture. 1972, the "Japan Cartoonist Association Award" was formally established and was regarded as the most authoritative award. As a result, various comic awards began to appear in Japanese comic circles, such as the Spring and Autumn Comics Award for Literature and Art, the Comics Award for Primary Schools, the Comics Award for Toastmasters, the International Comics Award for Yomiuri Shimbun, the Osamu Tezuka Award, the Akazuka Award, and the Fujio Fujio Award.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, with the creation of comic scripts by some novel writers, the quality of Japanese comics has been significantly improved. And orthodox girl cartoons are also beginning to show an upward trend. The famous girl cartoonists in this period include Naoko Nakagawa, Chieko Hosokawa, Xizi and Eiko Mizuno. Their works have opened up a new theme of girls' comics, and girls' comics have also developed rapidly and gradually surpassed them. Riyoko Ikeda's "The Rose of Versailles" pushed the girl comics to the peak. 、

Step into maturity—

In 1980s and 1990s, Japanese comics entered a mature stage. At this time, the genre of comics is diversified in terms of painting style, theme and story, major magazines have basically established their own status and publishing direction, cartoonists have also shown their magical powers, and the Japanese comic industry has blossomed. Many comic peripheral products have also been developed accordingly, such as toys, models and so on. Japan's animation industry system has been basically stable, forming a relatively complete system.

Every year, Japan holds various comic appreciation and comic tour exhibitions to show readers more excellent comic works and discover and cultivate a group of new comic talents. The publication of comics has also developed from newspapers and magazines to concession edition, singles, singles full edition, hardcover edition, library edition and so on.

It is rare that the Dragon Ball created by Toriyama Akira in 1984 has a great influence on the animation industry, and western countries are also excited about it. Up to now, One Piece (the dominant comic in the comic industry in the past decade) has also been influenced by it.

Nowadays, although the rapid development of animation and games has brought some influence to the animation industry, with the participation of more and more emerging cartoonists, the Japanese animation industry will continue to flourish and continue to create more excellent and wonderful comic works for readers who like Japanese comics.