Yan Kai's entry experience

Yan Kai is known as "the first cartoonist with original stories in China" and "the chief cartoonist in Chinese mainland", but in fact, he is a quiet and introverted young man with pigtails.

Because his mother is a teacher, he has had a hobby of drawing on the ground with chalk heads since he was three years old. When he was in primary school, his dream was to be a cartoonist. In middle school, he began to like to write some martial arts and science fiction novels and then do his own illustrations, which laid the foundation for him to become a cartoonist in the future.

When I was in high school, Yan Kai first saw a new story cartoon. That's a new cartoon of Hainan photography art that is familiar to everyone after 70-80. It's the old three articles-Saint, Dragon Ball and Chivalrous Detective Han (city hunter). This brand-new mass entertainment culture, with the introduction of film and television language, has the impact of the picture and the depth of the story, which can satisfy his two dreams of writing and painting at the same time and firmly grasp him at once. From then on, he revised his dream again, determined to become a cartoonist, and spent his whole life painting cartoons well!

However, in the early 1990s, China was still a wasteland of new cartoons, when China's new cartoons were still new things. Yan Kai, who dreams of becoming a professional cartoonist, is surprised to find that he can't find any platform to accept the submission of new cartoons! He even went to the post office and searched the national journal subscription list, but he still found nothing. Original and innovative comics were completely zero in China at that time!

Just when Yan Kai was at a loss, unable to contribute, and thinking about whether to contribute for Taiwan Province, the dawn appeared. China's first new comic magazine, King of Painting Books, was published. -When Yan Kai saw him at the Shenzhen Bookstore, he was reading the seventh issue. This magazine publishes some classic Japanese works, as well as some old cartoonists' modified works. And most importantly, he wants to develop China's own new comics, and he accepts the submission of new comics! Among the pirated cartoons on the bookstall, this magazine looks so radiant. Yan Kai hurriedly bought all the "Painting King Books" on the bookstall, returned home, spread out the painting paper, raised the brush and cast a dream in Beijing. ...

Yan Kai is very lucky. His high-quality paintings conquered Wang Yongsheng, editor-in-chief of King of Painting. Beijing sent an invitation, and the editorial department intends to set up the first new comic book studio in China. It is estimated that three young people will be selected from all over the country and invited to the north to seek their dreams. Yan Kai was chosen as one of them. At this time, Yan Kai had just started his college studies. Is it important to study or dream? He is faced with a dilemma.

"China's new cartoon is still zero. If I seize this opportunity, maybe I can join in and start a brand-new era with him. This opportunity, missed, missed will be an era, this opportunity will never come again! There is also a university. This year and next year, he will always wait for me there, right? " Yan Kai finally convinced his family with this sentence. Drop out of school and draw cartoons in the north. In front of him, the road to dreams began.

1March 26th, 994, the day after Yan Kai arrived in Beijing, his career officially set sail on his18th birthday. In May, Yan Kai's first novel "Snow Coconut" was published in "The King of Painting Books" and quickly spread throughout the country. ...

/kloc-came to Beijing to join the comic studio at the age of 0/8, and was later called the "Three Musketeers of China New Comics" in the same studio with Sean and Zheng. Although their works are greatly influenced by Japanese cartoons, their stories, characters and scenes are closer to the real life of people and teenagers in China. As a result, they became the pioneers of China's new comics and the idols of anime fans at that time. Inspired by them, Hu Rong, Nie Jun, Yao Feila, Free Bird, Zhang Xiaoyu, Zhao Jia, Benjamin ... these later China cutting-edge comic masters joined the cutting-edge comic creation team one after another and became the modern people of the "5 155 Project" in the 1990s. This era is also called "the golden age of China's new comics".

The representative work "Snow Coconut" made Yan Kai famous in one fell swoop, and it is the most popular original cartoon in China. Yan Kai's painting style absorbs the characteristics of modern Japanese comics to a great extent, making him look fashionable and mature. Plus, he is from Taiwan Province Province, so many readers mistakenly think that he is a painter from Taiwan Province Province. But Yan Kai was actually born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and grew up in Chinese mainland. He is a mainland cartoonist.

Snow Coconut has sold 700,000 comics, and there are countless pirated ones. "A Xue" and "Miss Xue" often mentioned by young people after 70-80 in Chinese mainland refer to the heroine of Snow Coconut. Snow Coconut tells the story of a girl from the future who was sent back to modern times through just visiting. I intended to save the future destroyed by the war with Zou Yuan, a 35-year-old scientist, but was mistakenly sent to the home of Zou Yuan, an ordinary boy of 15 years old. From then on, the stories about the ignorant feelings of teenagers and girls, as well as the stories about them fighting against future suitors with their friends, have been launched one after another ... It can be said that Snow Coconut is actually the earliest travel drama of Chinese mainland and the originator of the idea of "boxed girls".

Yan Kai is no longer the young boy he was. Became synonymous with uncle. Even his name in Weibo is "Uncle Yan Kai" and he has gained a lot of weight, so he often laughs at himself in the postscript. In those years when he didn't do comics, it is said that he did a good job in the animation industry and worked as an artistic director, general director and vice president in several companies.

In 2006, he invited his good brothers Sean and Zheng back and set up the "Three Musketeers Animation Studio", which became a small surprise for the industry. After that, he quickly devoted himself to the new era of colorful magazines, strongly supported colorful magazines such as Comic Guest, and made great achievements. However, he himself was criticized by black and white cartoons on the Internet for promoting Colorful People. However, the progress of the times is unstoppable, and the colorful times have finally arrived and become the mainstream of chinese comic. On the other hand, Yan Kai has also become a hero to promote the development of colorful life in China.

In Yan Kai's own words, "Only a handful of cartoonists have survived since then. I can live from the golden age to the silver age. In addition to good luck, it depends mainly on persistence. "

Yan Kai's painting attainments are actually limited. He is not a first-class painter. But he is definitely a first-class cartoonist. Perhaps because of his age, his paintings are not as fashionable as they are now, but compared with many cartoonists, his works are mature in story, vivid in characters, not impetuous, close to the market, not blindly catering to the market, with a bottom line and persistence, and a sense of humor and responsibility, so they are deeply loved by readers and the market so far. It can be said that it is an evergreen tree in chinese comic market.

"three musketeers Studio" later evolved into "Yan Kai Culture" company. Yan Kai later trained many cartoonists, such as Xiaobai, Chen Hui, Yang Xiaohua, Xia DOG, LX, Xiaohei, Fan Wenzhong and Li Chaomu. This company still insists on original comic creation, which is serialized with Tencent Animation on many domestic magazine platforms. Their works can also be seen on mobile phones. Is one of the best comic book companies in China.