Comics? What is a comic book?

Comics is an art form, which depicts life or current events in a simple and exaggerated way. Generally, methods such as deformation, analogy, symbol, suggestion and innuendo are used to form humorous pictures or groups of pictures in order to achieve the purpose of irony or praise. This is a painting with strong satire or sense of humor. Exaggeration, metaphor and symbol are often used to satirize, criticize or praise some people and things, which have strong sociality. There are also works purely for entertainment. There are often two kinds of entertainment works: funny and characterization (the author designs a virtual world and rules).

As a unique art category, comics are deeply loved by people all over the world. People call comics an esperanto without national boundaries, and are praised as "the ninth art" by western art critics. Comic art has been promoted to an unprecedented height. Turkey is one of the countries where modern comics started earlier. They also promoted comics to the category of fine arts together with other painting arts, and called them six categories of contemporary art together with painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and architecture. Comic art is the crystallization of human wisdom and embodies the essence of human civilization. It is these profound cultural accumulations that make comics exert strong artistic vitality. Cartoonists should not only draw pictures, but also make up stories. In other words, a cartoonist is a person who tells stories with pictures in a box. A cartoonist = a storyteller+a painter, both of which are indispensable. Many cartoons are beautiful in style, but the author ignores the key points. The story is the soul of the whole work. The characters and the world created by the author are endowed with soul and charm because of the story script. This creative process is very difficult, and usually you have to experience the frustration of being rejected. No one can really be smooth sailing (it is said that professionals can only sleep for 4 hours every day). 2 1 century, the development of chinese comic is in the ascendant, and a group of cartoonists who are obsessed with the pursuit of comic art are trying to find the way of comic creation under the new historical conditions. It is particularly worth mentioning that the 6th World Comic Congress was successfully held in Beijing from June 5th to 10, 2004. In order to make the contest more international, famous foreign cartoonists and successful domestic cartoonists were invited to form a jury, and the selection rules of the contest were formulated in accordance with international practice, with special emphasis on the selection of comic works with artistic characteristics. This congress marks the beginning of the 2 1 century artistry, and also shows that chinese comic is being integrated into the world comic forest. This conference has opened a new chapter in the integration of chinese comic art and world cartoon art ... There is no unified cartoon name in the world. In the west, people are used to calling it "comics, comics, humorous paintings, negative works and funny paintings". "Comics" means "random" painting, and this term has been used to this day. As for the names of English cartoons, the author concludes that (1) cartoons are the general names of cartoons (including cartoons and animations). (2) Comic is a kind of comic, especially a portrait comic (or a comic like a face). (3) Comics generally refer to comics: including humorous comics, unit comics and comic books. (4) Comic comics refer to multi-grid comics or unit comics and continuous comics. The cartoons referred to in this article generally refer to English cartoons. Conan, hand-painted in Qingshan, has the characteristics of single cartoon, multiple cartoons and comic books in form.

As early as the Neolithic Age, people used pictures to express their feelings, wishes and record their lives, so painting became the most basic means to record human development. The characters painted in this period have the original embryonic form of comics, but they do not have the function of comics. The so-called cartoon is a unique spiritual element endowed by modern people. What is a comic book? In the dictionary, we can't find the exact explanation for the cartoons we know. Different social backgrounds, different political backgrounds and different nationalities give it different definitions, but one thing is basically the same: comics are the art of laughter. However, it is obviously one-sided and superficial to understand comics only as the art of laughter. In fact, this art of laughter has covered all forms of beauty. Someone once compared comics to a collection of painting, philosophy and literature, which is a mixture. It has both painting characteristics and philosophical and literary thoughts. It is a "marginal" art involving painting, philosophy and literature. Although this explanation is ridiculous, it shows the basic characteristics of comic art. From this point alone, comic is different from other kinds of painting art. So how to define modern comic correctly and fairly? Throughout the history of comics, both satirical cartoons with political themes and humorous cartoons with life themes have the functions of making people laugh, thinking and enlightening. It can be concluded that "all cartoons are funny"; Thought-provoking; Three characteristics that inspire people's minds are the basic characteristics of comics. What are the attributes of comics? Comic is a visual art, which has the same characteristics as other paintings. However, it is not completely equivalent to other paintings. The fundamental difference between it and other paintings is that it puts forward opinions and comments on things and has the characteristics of humor. So satire and humor constitute the most basic attributes of comics. The art of comedy is the art of satire and humor, and it is also the art of reverse thinking.