[Edit this paragraph] Painting the history of the king
Later, I had to mention that the book "The King of Painting Books" (now it seems that the name is really corny) appeared. I once saw someone write an article dismissively saying that the king of painting books appeared as a pirated comic book publication published by booksellers on the premise that selling comics was profitable at that time. It was really ridiculous. It is no exaggeration to say that for those people in China who like comic creation for the sake of reading comics, the feeling of seeing King of Painting at that time was "finally finding home". Although this is a poor quality comic magazine, although there are many elements taught by old-school children educators in the book, it is, after all, the enlightenment publication of domestic cartoons. Without it, there would be no local cartoons in China today. Especially the magazine comics and comic magazines, opened the embryonic form of chinese comic's industrialization. Magazines take the initiative to contact booksellers, and each issue of comic sales advertisements stimulates readers' desire to buy comics, and also allows readers to buy comics correctly under the guidance of magazines (at the same time, the game industry in China has also begun to develop and reached its peak, which is completely different from the current half-dead and embarrassing state. So comics and games are really two worlds that are closely related, one is lost and the other is brilliant.
The bimonthly "King of Painting Books" promoted the overall development of chinese comic, and also made Japanese publishers see the hope of chinese comic market. At present, the Japanese side is indifferent to the Japanese market. At that time, talk club contacted the king of painting books, hoping to reach a cooperation, and the Japanese side directly provided manuscript input to help produce a magazine serialized in China and China. Unfortunately, due to various reasons of China's publishing policy and national conditions, this agreement could not be reached.
In the same period, with the sales volume of King of Picture Books reaching the peak of 400,000 per issue and aging, similar magazines began to appear in large numbers. Among the numerous pirated and junk magazines, only New Comic Book and Animation City have really injected fresh blood into chinese comic.
"New Comics" is a magazine that completely publishes Japanese comics, but its material selection is amazing. For the first time, domestic readers saw the flying basketball man, my goddess, DNA, fetish and comic book frenzy. The greatest contribution of "New Comics" to chinese comic is that it broke the stereotype that comics with the same content were published at the same time, which was initiated by "The King of Painting Books", and created a special pattern of serializing comics in magazines for a period of time. After being well received by readers, it immediately stopped loading, turned into a single book and serialized new works, which accelerated the circulation of comics several times.
Another book, Animation City, is a new chinese comic magazine, which is far superior to the book King of Painting. At that time, this magazine created by northern cartoonists Xiaodou and Wang Pingping was full of vitality. Not only did a group of real alternative cartoonists, such as scavengers, not seen in orthodox comic magazines, were introduced. (At this time, alternative cartoonists were quite distinctive in level, which was far from many so-called alternative cartoonists who claimed to be different but actually kept up with the fashion. They are thoughtful, enthusiastic and full of enthusiasm for work and study. Look at the so-called alternative cartoonists now. In their view, only those who drop out of junior high school, run away from home, like the so-called "blood" and "death" and pretend to be decadent all day are considered to be engaged in alternative comics. These people actually don't understand the meaning of the so-called alternative comics at all. For the first time, they introduced a number of cartoons that were not popular at that time, such as "The Tale of Five Stars", to China (there was also a book called "Jinhong Comics" for 32 years).
Losing the advantage of serialization, the increasingly embarrassed King of Painting gave up the serialization of Japanese comics and began to make China local comics wholeheartedly. The turn of "The King of Painting Books" can be said to be a great turn of local cartoons in China. Yan Kai, Sean, Yao Feila, Free Bird, Hu Qianrong and other early chinese comic backbones all began to mature in the process of "King of Painting Books" serializing cartoons. In addition to Japanese cartoons, cartoons from other countries in The King of Picture Books have also begun to increase, including Spanish cartoons, which are rare in China. At this time, the comic book publishing industry reached unprecedented prosperity, with excellent works such as Clamp, Mystery of the Dragon, Red Pig, City Hunter, Battle of Venus, Video Girl, Wandering White Book, Legend of Overlord-Xiao and Peacock King published in China, and the story of Overlord appeared in China market.
The tragic day has finally arrived. The King of Picture Books, who just turned one year old, was completely banned for various reasons, and all other similar comic magazines disappeared, and the chinese comic market entered an unprecedented trough.
That year, the editorial department of Animation City held a meeting of more than 20 cartoonists. Discuss a magazine named "Young Comics" to be published soon. This little-known conference brought together many people from chinese comic for the first time, and a considerable number of participants later became the pillar of chinese comic magazine. Under the influence of the "Five One Projects", Beijing Publishing House also wants to run a comic magazine and talk to us. The name of this magazine is tentatively named "Beijing Comics".
1996, under the spirit of "5 155 project", five comic magazines were produced: Beijing Comic, Comic Pioneer, chinese comic, Comic King and Comic Pioneer. Three excellent new cartoons, King of Popular Science Painting, King of Comics and Science Fiction New World, also appeared in other magazines. The number of local comic magazines in China has reached its peak. However, due to various reasons, some magazines, such as china cartoon, have sold hundreds of copies in China, and finally withdrew from the moderate competition. Comic pioneers were also discouraged by retailers, and Sanyou new comics closed down due to business failures, such as the king of popular science paintings, juvenile comics, the king of comics, and science fiction world pictorial. Although there was a time when a large number of local cartoons were published crazily, the result was that the booksellers who paid for them failed to make a profit. As little Doudi showed; He first drew a big circle on the ground, then drew a middle circle in the park and drew a small circle inside. He explained that the big circle outside is the animation market in China, the middle circle is the market where you can see the temperate zone in China, and the upper circle inside the small circle is the actual animation market now. All the magazines compete for the market in the smallest circle, but they don't find many larger circles outside this small circle.
In contrast, only King of Comics, which started from humble beginnings, really reached the initial process of comic industrialization. When it was first published, their producers were a group of comic idiots, and the manuscripts used were also old manuscripts provided by the former king of painting books, so it can be said that there is no future at all. On this humble basis, they gradually changed their business line, changed the routine of other magazines focusing on the national market, focused on a corner of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and simply jumped out of competition and faced women. This makes its production route gradually clear: girls' comic magazines for women, making beautiful girls' comic magazines, and radiating girls' comic magazines in nearby provinces. Under this clear management idea, Comic King is developing healthily according to its own route, and has been gradually improved in all aspects, and its sales volume has reached the highest level of local comic magazines at present. In recent years, comic magazines all over the world have held "comic conferences", but most of them have completely failed. In order to earn more tickets, they destroyed the magazine's position in readers' minds. However, this year's animation king conference is completely different. They have attracted investors and invested more than 200 thousand in the early stage. Counter rental fees and exhibition ticket prices also adopt a low-cost strategy. The press conference not only attracted fans, but also attracted businesses. Some scalpers even sold tickets to 60 yuan, with 80,000 visitors and a net profit of over 150%. This is not a stupid demonstration against Japanese cartoons, but chinese comic's own business activities. It can be said that the only magazine that can survive well in chinese comic is King Caton (this is a very painful reality).
Although China's comic magazines are a failure, there are still many stupid businessmen who want to make a profit by running comic magazines. As a result, driven by this concept, the farce of "speeding storm" appeared. This cartoon, which claims to be in line with international standards, has really attracted many domestic cartoonists to participate, but no one has seen its future development, and the painter's purpose is only to pay the bill, which is even higher than the domestic price. At that time, I had discussed the production direction of this book with his investors for a long time, but the producer said solemnly like a child: "I didn't run this book to make money." It is wrong for you to talk to me about business problems. I just want to make friends. " At this time, all I can do is leave. Sure enough, this book, whose cover was designed with the help of China XXX Publishing House, only lasted for three issues in the end. Investors fled with high debts in the third issue and switched to advertising. A number of private magazines, such as Speedstorm, Happy Boys, Comic Club, and Time Comics, which have appeared in various fashions, have also rolled up their flags and collected them, and some have simply followed the trend to start information stories. Now, these booksellers are losing money, and they are changing careers. No one talks about making original cartoons in China anymore.
[Edit this paragraph] The collective memory of the first generation of original cartoons
Source: roaming author: things
Too many things linger in memory, and unpredictable things are not only "things", but also more unpredictable future and dreams. I met a little girl who worked as an assistant to a cartoonist on the Internet and said, "I'm so tired of drawing cartoons that I'm dying of poverty." There are no words.
Chatting with the responsible editor who used to be in Shanghai, she vowed to revitalize the cartoon industry in China at that time. It didn't take long for her to stick to it. She later came to Beijing and worked in the publishing industry. After I went to the south, I finally came to Beijing. When we met again, it was only two years before we found that we had changed a lot.
What dream, what revitalization, suddenly feel that time is really a very cruel thing, it said nothing but let us know which is our last choice.
Looking through several long or short stories I have published, there is a long-abandoned comic pen at the bottom of the drawer.
In fact, sometimes, ideals seem to have a lot of sentimental flavor.
The one who used to draw cartoons with me is married now, and the primary school girl who used to chase me for advice has also switched to Forrasi! The previous phrase "I want to be a cartoonist in the future" has now become "there is no future in drawing cartoons" Maybe I am old, maybe my dream is old, maybe ... I can't stand on the other side of my dream after people are in reality.
Close-up this article in memory of those who have made efforts for our local comics.
King of painting:
Does anyone remember this cover?
I searched hard for a long time and found only half a picture like this. But I still miss it. I think it's 18. I wonder if anyone remembers. How many people mentioned local cartoons in China, saying, "He was not a color TV set from the time of the King of Painting. For a very young comic reader, for Xiaobai, who just likes comics, maybe this old cover is nothing, but for those who watched the king in the painting grow up.
When I was a pupil, I saved a lot of money to buy breakfast. At that time, I went to the post office to fill out the money order for the first time because I missed the third issue. Can you imagine how much courage I needed when I was a child? (There are four money orders that are wrong, because the remittance amount was required to be capitalized at that time). When the book came, it was given to me by the dean of our school, wrapped in a brown paper envelope (if he knew it was a cartoon, he wouldn't give it to me if he died).
At that time, there were only saints (for me when I was a child, I only knew this, and fighting was nothing to see), and the king of painting made great contributions.
The details of each book and the subsequent suspension of publication have been reported in great detail on a big website, so I won't say much here. Now let's talk about a series of local cartoonists in China published in Wang Kao at that time!
Tan and Pan
Please forgive me for not being the first to mention the well-known Yan Kai.
For a cartoonist, Tan (sorry, he doesn't play Go, please don't make a mistake) can still see a lot of his works in the China Comic Book he bought later. For the works at that time, there were still many comic elements in it, but it was the first time that I learned what "point paper" was from his works (please forgive my ignorance).
His work was later published in The King of Popular Science Painting, but it was completely ... The Comic Form of China. If I remember correctly, it is called Einstein and the Theory of Relativity.
This is the first time that I came into contact with "Chinese mainland's own cartoonist" in Painting King.
Chen Jun and Tian Jian
This name and the name of the work are probably too popular, so I can't find the picture, and I don't have my library with me, so I can't scan it for everyone.
This work was the last thing I had to see in the king of painting at that time. After reading three issues, I found that I like it to death. Although the picture is very general, the author is very thoughtful, and the philosophical words in it deeply attract me. I still remember the sentence that touched me deeply at that time, "Where there is sunshine, there must be shadows".
I heard from Lala that there was a separate book later, but I didn't see it.
If the time to start serializing is sooner or later, Sean is earlier than Yan Kai, but Yan Kai is more popular than Chen Xianghong.
It turns out that we can draw such beautiful cartoons. It turns out that we also have such a powerful cartoonist. The first generation of snow coconut was highly anticipated as soon as it was born. We know the charm of Chinese mainland for the first time.
It can be said that Yan Kai was the fastest growing and most respected generation in that era. For him who was less than 18 years old at that time, this sudden honor really caught him off guard. However, with the closure of The Painted King, almost all the magazines in China at that time had problems, or some didn't want Chinese mainland's things at all, and they were all made in Japan. At that time, there seemed to be a cartoon city, a painting boy, three excellent cartoons and what came out later, such as Happy Boys, all of which were epiphyllum-like figures, and disappeared as soon as they appeared. At that time, China was local.
Yan Kai also traveled a lot at that time. He once saw his works in Sanyou comics, and then disappeared with the disappearance of the book.
After a long time, it was reported that the snow coconut would be serialized in the king of popular science painting, so I chased the king of popular science painting and bought it all the time.
It can be said that these magazines published later inherited the "necessity" of the early "painting king" at that time, because they didn't want to set the price of the book too high at that time, so they adopted the four spelling, so such a lame "extraordinary method" has been used until the beginning of this century, which also made a group of comic writers in China develop the habit of "spelling one at a time, and you can't see it no matter how detailed it is".
At that time, the manuscript published by Yan Kai in King of Scientific Painting (abbreviated as King of Scientific Painting) was 2: 1, which may be related to Yan Kai's great manuscript at that time. Anyway, the first impression when it was published was that the manuscript was so rough. Actually, it just hasn't shrunk. I recently read the original Japanese magazine, which may not be as detailed as our current author. ) Yan Kai's popularity has been extended, and various TV programs have begun to have his participation. I remember watching Phoenix Satellite TV, interviewing China Women's Volleyball Team, and finally hearing Yan Kai, asking him to draw women's volleyball players.
Later, I read a series of works, such as Summer Orbit, Gift of the Universe and the Beginning of a Dream. It may be because there are too many serials in his later period, or his life is too busy, which gives people a feeling that Yan Kai's painting level has improved slowly in his later period. His solo book has only been published in the eighth book. As his publication closed down again, there was no reply. It is rumored recently that he will publish a book in Taiwan Province Province. I don't know what the result will be, but our vast China is not necessarily optimistic, and how many supporters will there be in Xiaobao Island?
But anyway, I hope he can be as happy as his name!
* * * * * Drawing cartoons is very tiring and bitter, and sometimes I want to give up, but what can I do if I can't even do what I like well? ********
The above is what he said in Yan Kai's diary, which was once regarded by me as a famous saying to motivate himself, until he finally changed careers and did something else. ...
Speaking of Sean, he actually made his debut before Yan Kai. As the first serial work, he is the shortest among the "Three Musketeers in Beijing". Although the early works are obviously suspected of learning from Toriyama Akira and Gao Qiao, the author's thoughts are extremely active, so there are many energetic characters and stories. To say that characters are energetic means that every character has great personality characteristics. To say that these stories are full of energy means that many stories are very creative and interesting. Sean's works are still worth playing for those who watched "Running Horse" in 1994!
After the disappearance of the painting king, Sean's works also began a career without a foothold, appearing in King Caton and The Storm. Unfortunately, Ka adjusted her strategy and became a girl's thing. Diary of a Mountain Residence is no longer appropriate here, but Chao has basically disappeared. I once appeared in Happy Boys, but at that time, all the magazines flocked to me!
I once advertised in "Juvenile Comics" and started publishing. I don't know why it ended.
After a long period of adjustment, The Diary of the Hill finally fell on the 32-volume comic magazine Science Fiction World Pictorial. Needless to say, readers are happy to see the long-lost works, but ... after several adjustments, Sean's style has changed a lot. I don't know if he is mature and no longer has a funny mentality, or if we people are mature and can no longer watch his jokes. Here we go again.
After chasing for a while, Xiaoshan's diary was replaced by more than N new cartoons.
Disappeared for a period of time, he occasionally wrote short stories in Little People, and at the same time started a four-grid comic book Journey to the West, which was interpreted in the form of four grids and was well received, but unfortunately the good times did not last long. Later he heard that it had been serialized in another special humor magazine.
He lived in Zigong, came to Beijing and finally went home from Beijing. As a teenager, he experienced a lot. He once thought that he belonged to comics, and comics were in the sky. At that time, the system was imperfect and the manuscript fee was low, which made them feel sad for the first time.
Finally, I will do insurance. When I was chatting with an editor in the previous stage, I heard that he had switched to advertising decoration. I was very interested in talking about comics, but I just don't know if I can come back.
From the perspective of painting, Zheng is the worst of the three musketeers in Beijing. He only entered the studio in Beijing as the king of painting at that time. Before that, he only published a work on the king of painting, telling the story of a child who liked their teacher very much, and finally the sympathetic teacher married his father. (What rubbish story ~ ~) At that time, the style was to imitate Toriyama Akira. As an entertaining work, our Opium War can only be described by "intention", but the quality of the work can only be said to be average.
If the painting king has not disappeared, maybe we can see his change. Perhaps because of the disappearance of the painting king, he has changed. In short, the Opium War, which we later appeared in the Three Friends comics, changed a lot, which can be said to be an exaggerated progress.
Like Yan Kai, he has published several works in Jin Hong's comic book "Atomic Bomb", and "Strange Things in Boys' Dormitory" can be said to be a work for several years. The storm in the unknown star field has completely formed a semi-realistic personal style. Also for future publication? "A Dream in a Prosperous Age" laid the groundwork.
At this time, Zheng's works have power that ordinary authors don't have, and they are very good at enriching the picture by using the switching of perspectives, which makes the whole picture look not very single and depicts the scenery in place, which is greatly reflected in the solo book Busy as a Dream published in series later. This is also impossible for some young cartoonists who can't make perspective and draw scenes.
The Storm in the Unknown Star Field exposes the weakness of Zheng's story. Later published Prosperity Like a Dream took the route of romance novels, but unfortunately the story didn't last. ...
After switching to science fiction world pictorial, he published Ghost Train and some short stories. In fact, Zheng Xusheng began to change his style, and the prosperity in the middle and late period was a dream. There are few gray tones in his works, so he looks pale. The clothes of the characters inevitably have a very "old" taste. It's not very fashionable, but it has a good grasp of the script. Ghost Train is performed incisively and vividly.
I haven't heard from him since pictorial stopped publishing.
As the tallest and most mature person among the "Three Musketeers", Zheng can say that he gave up a lot for comics, but he felt that people in that era were so simple and lovely. Pay attention to life without pressure. It seems that as long as you can draw cartoons, you will be very happy! This powerful creativity is also lacking in this new group of comic book creators.
The mass production of comics and the entry of computers. There are also large-scale photos, the entry of real scenes and the revolution of computer sockets, which make cartoonists more and more lazy now.
Although I feel a little sad, I have to say that the era of painting kings has passed.
If this "Three Musketeers" is regarded as the first generation cartoonist in China, then the cartoon craze triggered by the King of Painting has officially ushered in the spring in chinese comic.
Whether their time is over or not, I hope we can remember what they have done for chinese comic.